Jurisdictional disputes in the motion-picture Industry : hearings before a special subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first-session, pursuant to H. Res. 111 (1948)

MOTION-PICTURE JUEISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 2307 Westing-house situation — stop luiions from preventing people who want to work. Mr. Sorrell can call them skid-row bums and he can call them all the names he wants, but the men who are working in the studios and the men who have tried to work are decent Americans who have families to support also, even though they may be on the opposite side of the fence from Mr. Sorrell. So I have this problem: I would need a considerable amount of time, it seems to me, to read into the record the things which I believe should be a part of this record. Now I don't know just how you want to handle that, Mr. Chairman. I do not think this hearing should be concluded without these records being put in and being made a part of the record. I would like to be selective about it. I know you expect to go on next week, and I simply cannot put that stuff in today. Mr. McCann. Mr. Chairman, may we ask that the matters he thinks should be a part of the record, and which are too voluminous to be reproduced in the record, be received for study, as was done with the records of the three-man committee ? You know we have studied those records. We would be glad to receive as a reference exhibit anything you have to offer, Mr. Zorn. Mr. Zorn. Here is the problem, Mr. McCann: For literally days on end I have sat here and had read at me and read into this record newspaper accounts and all sorts of accounts of everything. Now, as a reference exhibit it is going to be pretty tough for anybody trying to read' this record to figure it. What I would like to suggest is that I be given the same opportunity. I do not want to take your time to do it, but I should like to submit to you after I have had a chance to collate the material and then have had a chance to determine the material things, to be read in as a part of the record. Mr. McCann. Mr. Chairman, may I suggest this: If Mr. Zorn is willing to do so, just as you offered Mr. Cobb a chance to file a brief, so Mr. Zorn could make excerpts from those records which are material and submit a brief to us which we will reproduce in the appendix. Mr. Zorn. I don't think that is being entirely fair to me, Mr. McCann. Mr. McCann. I want to be fair. Mr. Zorn. It does not serve the purpose. I think I would like an opportunity to submit a brief, but I would like my brief to be devoted to the issues. I think all the other parties here have had in this record — and this is going to be a terrible record for anybody to have to read and collate — I think since all of these statements liave been made that we ought to have in here things which are far more cogent than a lot of stuff that has been read here in the form of affidavits and court decrees. I do not know what your plans are for next week, but I would like you to see some of these photographs, of course, and I would like to submit them. However, I would like to go through these things, cut them down to the bone as much as possible, and then make those things a part of the actual record. Mr. Kearns. Well, I think you have that privilege. Whatever you decide to do we will be glad to accept. I think Mr. McCami was trying to simplify it.