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2312 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES
jamin was there specifically for the purpose of discussing the creation of this new Authors League.
Mr. McCann. Mr. Chairman, to save time and not reproduce the minutes of the third quarterly meeting of the board of directors of the Motion Picture Association, Inc., held in New York on September 11, 194G, may I read into the record just one paragraph?
Mr. Byron Price and Mr. Maurice Benjamin were introduced and presented various Hollywood problems for consideration by the members present.
I think that is adequate.
Mr. Kearns. Does that meet with the approval of the attorney?
Mr. ZoRN. Yes. I think I made an explanation on that.
Now, Mr. McCann, you also asked whether there were any minutes of the meeting held on April 5, 1946. That was not, as you know, a meeting of the association. There was no secretary present and no minutes and no notes were kept of that.
Mr. McCann. What was the subject matter discussed at that time?
Mr. ZoRN. That, you will recall, was the Easter Sunday meeting
Mr. Levy. 1947.
Mr. ZoRN. You are quite correct, 1947. That was the meeting at which Mr. Boren made certain recommendations with regard to the resumption of negotiations with the striking carpenters and the painters. That has been testified to very thoroughly.
Mr. McCann. There were no minutes of that meeting?
Mr. ZoRN. No minutes were kept.
Now in response to your request for minutes — or notes, depending upon what you call them — of meetings of the labor committee, or the producers labor committee in Hollywood between the period February 15 and March 31, 1945, 1 hand you a set of such minutes or notes with a letter addressed to Mr. Charles Boren, care of Motion Picture Association, 1600 1 Street NW., Washington, D. C. :
Dear Charlie: Enclosed are copies of notes covering meetings pertaining to labor during the period between February 15 and March 31, 1945, inclusive. Sincerely yours.
It is signed "Ben," and the heading is "Ben T. Batchelder."
I want to point out that fhe.'^e notes start with February 15, 1945, and thouirh the letter dated "for the period between February 15 and March 3f," the last set of urates is March 6, 1945.
I checked that and found after the strike started on March 12, 1945, and because of the situations which prevailed and the general confusion, the meetings of the producers committee were not held at the producers association in Hollywood, but were held at either the Paramount or the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer house in Beverly Hills, and that no one took any notes of those meetings. That is the period between INIarch 6 and March 31.
Mr. McCann. Then, Mr. Zorn, this constitutes a complete set of notes made of the producers' meetings by anyone between the dates specified?
Mr. ZoRN. I am advised, Mr. McCann, that there are no notes of those meetings for that entire period, other than the ones I have just handed you.