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 2335 iviilied : "If you are figuring on going to work, you better stop right here or you'll get your G — d — head knocked off." The words are spelled out in the affidavit. I then walked over to the west side of Radford Avenue, directly across the street from the entrance to the Radford Avenue foot tratiic gate where I saw apitroximatel.v 150 men wearing picket armbands marching in a circle at the Radford Avenue foot-traffic gate entrance. In addition to these 150 pickets, there were approximately 150 additional men milling around Radford Avenue in the vicinity of said foot-traffic gate. I I'cmained in the vicinity of the said Radford Aveiuie foot-traffic gate entrance until approximately 10 a. m. As the result of the intimidation and the difficulties encountered by those who attempted to cross thepicket line, I did not attempt to cross the picket line with the result that I did not report to work. Then summarizing the rest of these briefly, Mr. Landis, there is the affidavit of Luis Vance, who was assistant to the construction superintendent at Rej:)ublic. His affidavit is dated October 4, 1946. In sunnnary he tried to go through the picket line and was blocked. Then he goes on to say : At this time, one of the pickets whom I had known since 1941, ilr. James Skelton, the business agent for the United Brotherhood of Cai-penters and Joiners of America, Local 040, approached me and took me to one side and engaged me in conversation. He told me not to go through the picket line because the pickets would do something to me, and if they didn't now, they would later. Mr. Skelton, you will recall, was the business agent for the carpenters' union. Skipjung some of these other affidavits, there is a very interesting affidavit of Corrine M. Kraushaar, sworn to October 5, 1946, who deposes that she is the wife of liaoul Kraushaar, orchestra manager for Republic Productions and a member of the musicians' union : That on or about 11 a. m., on October 3, 1946. I received a telephone call from an unknown male ; that this luiknown male stated that if my husband told the musicians under contract to Republic studios to report to work that he would see to it that our children would be harmed; that he immediately hung up after stating the above. There are two children, the issue of our marriage, namely, Suzanne, 2^/2 years of age, and Arlynne, 5 months of age. The said telephone call has caused me great fear and has produced a high degree of nervousness ; that I am worried over same and have been unable to attend to my houseliold and maternal duties. I have been unable to sleep because of the fear of injury and harm to my children. Then there are a series of affidavits here of a Mr. Dick Hills, Helen Warner, and a number of others who work in the stenographic department. They were clerical workers at Republic. They describe how these people sought to go through the picket lines. They were called filthy names; that pickets threw cups of hot coffee in their faces and tried to prevent them from going through. As Miss Warner in her affidavit points out : The pickets grouped us, showing and jostling and shouting "Scab," "Fink," and "Rat." I was kicked in the shins and my feet were trampled upon by said pickets. I saw one picket holding a cup of coffee in his hand pois'ed fbove Jiis head, ready to throw it at me. Said picket then threw said cup at me, but said cup missed me and hit Dick Hills— who was the other deponent here — on the side of his face. I saw a brown liquid spill down the side of Dick Hills" face.