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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 2213
Mr. Cobb. Yes. I would like to make a concise analysis of the controlling features of tlie several contracts, and then answer the question kindly asked by Mr. Landis and any other questions that may be asked, to the best of my ability.
The December 26, 1945, decision of the three-man committee commences with the quotation of the directive of October 1945. Point 2 in that directive provides that all employees return to work immediately. The evidence in the record, which I will point out by book and page in my written brief, will show that under this provision the carpenters, members of local 946, returned to the carpenters' work, and that the replacements, so-called, the lA designees who had temporarily occupied the work of the carpenters, were kept by the companies.
jNIr. Kearns. I think this is the point where we should get it straight. Before the directive was handed down who was doing the carpenters' work ? You have the directive of December 26, 1945.
Mr. Cobb. Yes, sir.
Mr. Kearns. Prior to that directive who was doing the carpenters' work ?
Mr. Cobb. The carpenters' work, according to the record — and mind you in my statements, Mr. Landis, I want to confine myself to what the record of evidence is, I am not offering any hearsay testimony.
INIr. Laxdis. I understand.
Mr. Cobb. I will point out in a written brief that prior to the Cincinnati agreement, the carpenters' work had been done by the carpenters, except during the period of the 1945 strike, from March until October, when under this agreement between Mr. Nicholas Schenck and Mr. Walsh, designees of the lATSE were used as replacements in the work of carpenters. So that when the companies, the lATSE and the crafts
Mr. Laxdis. This was before the 1945 strike ?
Mr. Cobb. Yes, sir.
Mr. Laxdis. What happened after they settled the 1945 strike ?
Mr. Cobb. I have read this provision in paragraph 2 to show that when the companies, the carpenters, the lA and others met in Cincinnati, point 2 of the agreement was all employees return to work immediately. The evidence in the record shows that that meant that the carpenters returned to carpenters' work, as well as referring to other employees.
And the evidence in the record will show that the carpenters did return to the carpenters' work upon the execution of the Cincinnati agreement and that all of the work in question was done by the carpenters, up to the December decision.
During that period the lA designees, who had been temporarily working in carpenters' work
Mr. Laxdis. That was in 1945 ?
Mr. Cobb. During the 1945 strike.
Mr. Laxdis. They had some lA carpenters working there?
Mr. Cobb. Under this agreement between Mr. Nicholas Schenck and Mr. Walsh, that the lA's were to take over all work in the studios. I will point that out in the written brief, book and page quotations. So that the lA's never did this carpenter's work, except during the 1945 strike, and that the basis of the agreement at Cincinnati, to which the companies and the lA were both parties, was that the carpenters