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JUKISDICTIONAL DISPUTES IN THE MOTION-PICTURE
INDUSTRY
TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1948
House of Representatives,
Special Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor,
'Washmgto7i, D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to adjournment, at 10 a. m., with the Honorable Gerald W. Landis presiding. Mr. Landis. Mr. Zorn, you may proceed.
TESTIMONY OF BURTON A. ZORN— Continued
Mr. Zorn. When we recessed on Friday, Mr. Landis, I said that I had a great deal of material in the form of photographs, newspaper items, affidavits, and injunction orders which I wanted to put into the record.
There is a tremendous mass of this material all establishing so completely and thoroughly that it cannot be contended otherwise, that Mr. SorrelFs testimony given in this hearing that his mass picket lines were set up not for the purpose of keeping people out of the studios, but solely as an exercise of free speech and his constitutional right to advertise the strike — those statements are as unworthy of belief on the face of this testimony as many other statements on which he has since been discredited in this hearing.
I think the records I am about to show you, summarizing them briefly, will show that both the 1945 and the 1946 strike in which Mr. Sorrell admitted that he was the generalissimo of the picket forces and directed the picket activities, is a record of violence and lawlessness which I don't think has been equaled in any other strikes in this country.
I will not attempt to read all of this to you. I will select just enough of these items to give you a running picture of it, but I will ask as I have these various items marked, that they be incorporated in the record.
For example, I have before me a copy of the Los Angeles Times of Thursday, October 11, 1945. The big headline at the top reads : "10.000 May Picket Film Studio Today."
The sub-headline reads: "Massed Unionist Lines at Warner Bros. Broken With Nearly 400 Arrests." [Reading:]
Balked by a determined army of sheriff's deputies which swiftly and efficiently yesterday interrupted a 6-day reign of disorder by smashing their massed picket line at Warner Bros. ; Burbank studio, striking AFL motionpicture unionists last night announced they will be joined on the picket line this morning by from 10,000 to 20,000 Lockheed machinists' union members.
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