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)

2324 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES Nearly 400 pickets who refused to break ranks when read the riot act by police chief Elmer Adams of Burbank were arrested on charges of rioting and failui-e to disperse. They were booked at Burbank city jail — a daylong process— and ordered to appear for preliminary trial at 10 a. m. October 22 before police judge Raymond L. Reid. • All but 13, who had posted $500 bail each before the decision to relieve the jail congestion was reached, were released on their own recognizance. NO BLOODSHED THIS TIME For the first time since the massed picketing started last Friday, there was no bloodshed yesterday. This was due in large part to an early morning announcement by Herbert K. Sorrell, president of the Conference of Studio Unions, AFL, that the law was going to move in, and not to resist. In skirmishes and head-on massed battles at the gates since last Friday, approximately 100 ipersons were injured, 1 seriously. The Los Ano-eles Times of October 25, 1045, carries this headline: "Fihn Studio Strike Settled : 400 Arrested on Final Day." End of the 33-week strike against film studios was announced yesterday by union labor and management shortly after 100 Los Angeles policemen arrested more than 400 pickets and sympathizers at Paramount and RKO studios. Climaxing a bitter struggle, which saw violence spread from one motionpicture studio to another, word of the strike's end came from William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Eric Johnston, newly appointed head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. Los Angeles Times, October 14, 1945. The headline reading: "Strikers Form Picket Lines at Three More Film Studios." [Eeading:] NEW TIE-UPS THREATENED BY LEADERS Efforts to settle Hollywood's 7-month-old film strike were intensified yesterday as three more studios were picketed, a picket was taken into custody after a clash with a police inspector, and strike leaders warned that still other studios will be involved. The three newly picketed studios were Columbia and Technicolor, Inc., in Hollywood-and RKO-Pathe in Culver City. All but a handful of nonstrikers were deterred from reporting at work at RKO-Pathe and Columbia, where the picket line melted away at 1 p. m., many of the pickets appearing 45 minutes later at Technicolor, where less than 50 employees and one studio truck entered the studio for the "swing shift" beginning at 3 p. m. From the Los Angeles Times of October 22, 1945, the headline: "Film Peace Meeting Fails : Mass Picketing to Expand." [Reading :] The first mass picketing of Paramount and RKO studios will begin today, Herbert K. Sorrell, strike leader, promised at a meeting of strikers last night. Sorrell said there will be 800 pickets at Paramount, 6C0 or 700 at RKO, and 1,000 at Warner Bros. October 7, 1945, from the Los Angeles Times: Unionists Defy Court on Film Picket Limit deputy booed as goo mass at warner bros. gateway; both sides seek injunctions Blatantly disregarding a superior court order to limit their pickets to 18 at all entrances, hundreds of unionists at Warner Bros, studio in Bubank yesteday jeeed the reading of an order by a deputy sheriff and continued to jam solidly the Olive Avenue gateway. The temporary restraining order was issued by Superior Judge Joseph W, Vickers after both the studio and the nine striking unions requested injunctions against one another.