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)

2328 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES The Los Angeles Times of September 29, 1946 : STUDIO STRIKERS GIVEN INJUNCTION WARNINGS The drone of official voices beat into the ears of marching pickets yesterday as the tliird day of the current Hollywood tilm strike got under way amid scenes of relatively diminished violence. One voice was that of Sheriff's Deputy Joseph M. Gaalken reading an injunction notice against illegal picketing to massed strikers at the gates of Warner Bros, studio. A second was William Snyder, of the sheriffs civil department, who announced a similar warning statement at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and other major lots. A third talker was Herbert Sorrell, conference of studio unions chief and strike leader. Sorrell shouted exhortations over a loud-speaker to pickets as he cruised overhead at MGM in his private airplane. AUTOS OVERTURNED Four arrests and two overturnings of automobiles marked the opening hours of the day's strife between AFL strikers of the CSU and nonstrikers of the lATSE. Figlits similar to the series of savage melees that highlighted tlie strike last Friday did not materialize. In the main, picket captains issued prompt orders for patrolling unionists to fall back following the readings of the injunctions. Mr. Owens. This is just for reference purposes, Mr. McCann, I presume ? Mr. McCann. I thought he was putting all these in the record, sir. Mr. ZoRN. We discussed this on Friday, Mr. Owens. I have marked out certain extracts from these articles, not the entire article. You will recall when the other witnesses were on they read for days. I am trying to short cut, but I want it in the record to meet some of the statements they made, which are in the record. Mr. Owens. Yes ; I understand, Mr. ZoRN. Los Angeles Times, October 1, 1946. The headline reads : "Fights Flare Along Studio Picket Line." [Keading:] COURT ORDER DEFIED; AUTOS STONED AND MEN KNOCKED DOWN Men were knocked down and automobiles damaged yesterday again at MetroGoldwyn-Mayer studio in Culver City as fighting and flagrant defiance of law and order were again reported by peace officers coping with the motion-picture strike. The officers put 10 strikers in jail at Culver City on a charge of defying a superior court order which last week laid something of a restraint on violent picket activities. One of the men faced an additional charge of assaulting with a deadly weapon. Anticipating violence, a large limousine with two nurses appeared early on the scene near the studio and was made prominent with the sign, "Conference of studio vmions first aid ear." SHOUT AT WORKERS The conference strikers were particularly active yesterday in shouting, "Get that man's name," "Get his car number," "We'll see you at your home," and "We'll take care of you later," as nonstrikers went through the picket lines. Some strikers adopted a sit-down technique to block studio ingress and egress but police dragged them out of the way, some of them into the waiting Black Maria that later took them to jail. Los Angeles Times, September 28, 1946, the headlines reading: "Hundreds of AFL Unionists Battle Furiously at M'-G-M." [Eeading :]