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 JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 2319 Metro protests Miggins and Heinz being included in tlie unit. RKO protests the senior rating for Spurgin. Universal protests the senior rating for Gladden. Carrol (Paramount) is not claimed by Cappy as a member of his union. Cappy DuVal was asked if he had some definition to offer to describe the duties of seniors and juniors. He suggested if a buyer did 25 percent or over of "initiative buying" he would be considered a senior. Under that percentage he would be a junior. Warners, Goldwyn, Columbia, Republic pay less than $130 to their purchasing agents. The average pay as shown on above chart is $104 per week to seniors and$84 to juniors. Cappy requests a rate of $130 flat for the seniors and $114.80 (60 hours at $1.64) for juniors. At this point Cappy recessed. The managers agreed to offer the prop masters' rate ($114.80 — 60 hours at $1.64) for the seniors and $1.51 per hour, 4S-hour guaranty, $78.52 for the juniors. Also to demand a union shop, with no seniority. Cappy returned to tha meeting and the above offer was made. Cappy said the offer was unsatisfactory and that he could not agree to an "open shop." Adjourned. VHC/s 3/2/45. MiNXTTEs OF Meeting of Labor Relations Managers, Held in Board Room on Monday, IMakch 5. 1945, at 10 : 30 A. M. Present: Columbia, Messrs. Guild, Hopkins; Goldwyn, Mr. Blair; M.-G.-M., Mr. Coffee ; Paramount, Mr. Boren ; RKO, Mr. Stone ; Republic, Mr. McDonnell ; Mr. Fox, Mr. Meyer ; Universal, Sir. McCausland ; Warners, Mr. Sax. Messrs. Milton Schwartz, Stephenson, Pelton, Casey, Clarke, Batchelder. Mr. Pelton advised the managers of the NLRB hearing on Wednesday at 10 a. m. to consider the dispute between No. 1421 and No. 44 over set decorators and the case of No. 1421 trying to include set estimators and set controllers in their union for bargaining. These two cases have been merged for hearing. We take the position that No. 1421 is not the appropriate unit for set controllers and estimators, and that practically all of the members of these two classifications have been, and do, belong in the SOEG — Paramount Office Workers or Warner Bros. OflSce Guild. At a preliminary hearing this position was taken by the producers' representative. Ml'. Mitchell, who has been handling the case, is out of the city and the matter has l)een turned over to Mr. Milton Schwartz, of the Loeb & Loeb office. The duties and qualifications of certain job classifications appearing in the Wage and Hour Manual covering so-called estimators and controllers were placed on the blackboard and each manager was asked to state which classification corresponds to estimators and/or contx-ollers in his studio. It was agreed each studio would have a qualified representative to testify at the hearing. Mr. Schwartz was shown a copy of exhibits A, B, C, which are appendages to the SOEG contract. It will be attempted to get a stipulation from the lATSE that they are not interested in set controllers and set estimators. A meeting for Mr. Schwartz to get additional data and information is called for 10 : .30 a. m. Tuesday, March 6, and either the labor relations managers or other qualified representatives are to be present to advise what estimators' and controllers' duties are. Mr. Schwartz was handed this office's file on estimators and controllers, which contained letters from each studio describing the duties of estimators and controllers in the respective studios. Deferment Mr. Pelton read a letter from Claude Collins to which was attached a digest of the procedure for occupational deferments for ages 18 through 29. A copy of the digest will be forwarded to each manager. Mr. Hopkins stated that if the studios have occasion to contact the WPB in regard to deferments for men under 30 Mr. McGowan is the man to see. It was