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)

MOTIOX-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 2333 to lue and forcibly hit me in uiy chest and abdomen, and in addition I suffered several knocks from other men in the vicinity. The affidavit of Mr. George W. Pinkham, dated October 24, 1945, who was employed by RKO in the miniature department: On October 24, on entering my place of employment, I witnessed the following : There were approximately 500 pickets in the immediate vicinity of Marathon Street entrance. While we were entering the studio under the protection of the police. 1 heard a scuffle immediately behind me and turned to .see William J. Henshaw trying to keep his balance. A heavy-set man of medium height, who was not wearing an arm band, had planted himself in front of Mr. Henshaw. I did not see any actual blows but this man (who was called Tony by the pickets) was trying to trip William J. Henshaw and prevent him from entering the studio. A tall, burly man was in the innnediate vicinity of Mr. Henshaw, within 4 feet of him, and he was shouting, "You're not going into the studio. We are not going to let you in. Come on, stay out or you will get hurt." And then this second man attempted to hit Larry Hampton, assistant to Martj' Martin. And so on. Now I am reading some extracts from affidavits in the case of Paramount Pictures, Inc., against Screen Set Designers, Illustrators, and Decorators, Local No. 1421, et al., in the Superior Court of the State of California, county of Los Angeles, case No. 506787. In that connection you will recall Mr. Sorrell was asked questions as to whether or not any studio executives were kept out and he said emphaticall}' not. I read from the affidavit of Jacob H. Karp, sworn to October 22, 1945. Mr. Karp says : T have been employed by Paramount Pictures since 1929 and I am at present resident attorney and executive assistant to Mr. Henry Ginsberg, vice president in charge of production and studio operations. That at approximately 9 : 05 a. m. on the morning of October 22, 1945, I arrived at the Paramount Studios, at Hollywood, Calif., and observed a group of approximately 50 pickets walking two abreast in a hollow circle, completely blocking the so-called DeMille entrance at the intersection of Marathon and Irving Boulevard, which is the entrance by which I customarily enter the studio. The pickets were walking in close-order formation with barel.v a foot or two between them. I presented my credentials to the pickets at this entrance, advised them that I was an executive of this studio, and that it was necessary for me to enter. I was told by one of the pickets, who acted as spokesman, that regardless of my position I would not be permitted to enter the studio. I attempted to walls through the line of pickets and I was repulsed and pushed away from the gate. I then proceeded to the entrance to the administi-ation building. at 5451 Marathon Street, where I observed a similar line of pickets, approximately 25 in number, also walking in close order formation with less than a foot separating the pickets. I again presented my credentials to the pickets at this entrance and I was again told by a picket who presumed to speak for the other pickets that I would not be permitted to enter the studio despite my position. That I then made arrangements for an automobile to meet me in the vicinity of the studio and that in this automobile I was driven to the DeMille entrance, at which the picket line I have previously described still existed, and that the automobile was driven slowly toward the gate. That one of the women picketers threw herself in the path of the moving automobile and that it was necessary to stop the automobile immediately and for the officers to remove her body from under the wheels of the automobile, whereupon the automobile was driven into the studio. I am skipping many of these affidavits. This is the affidavit of Robert IJitchie, who was employed by Paramount for 14 years as a grip. He says : On Monday morning, October 22, 1945, I came to work as usual at 5:45 a. m. I parked on Lemon Grove near Ridgewood, and as I came to the studio, I saw many people there at the Lemon Grove gate, marching as in a parade. At that 67383— 48— vol. 3 53