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)

2338 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES The words are spelled out here, Mr. Owens. By that time two or three other pickets had come out of the line and one grabbed me by the left arm and spun me around, using obscene language, and told affiant he would have to go around the end of the line. The affiant proceeded around the westerly end of the picket line and attempted to reach the steps leading to the Thalberg Building. An officer attempted to clear the picket line away from the entrance sufficiently for the affiant to enter, and the picket line refused to give way. The affiant was then slioved through a bed of roses by one of tlie pickets. Mr. Owens. He at least gave him a bed of roses. Mr. ZoRN. I don't know how many thorns were in that bed, though. The affidavit of Mr. Fadiman, William J. Fadiman, who is the head of the scenario department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer : That at or about 9 a. m. on Septeml)er 27, 1946, he attempted to cross the picket line to enter the Thalberg Building at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. That he was seized by the back of the coat by one of the pickets ; that he was forcibl.v spun around and detained until he was liberated by a police officer. Then he proceeded into the Thalberg Building. This is the affidavit of Paul W. Bien, a police officer at M-G-M. Cutting through a good part of his affidavit, he states, talking about September 2G, 1946, and describing a group of pickets near the Culver gate: That affiant joined this group and he heard the spokesman for the group address the following remarks to the assembled group: "How many of you fellows have private cars?" Approximately 20 or 25 hands were raised. He turned to a man who presumably was one of his lieutenants and said, "See to it that 14 or 15 of these men who own cars pick up a couple of more boys in each one of their cars and tail these b " Spelled out here — " — home when the shift breaks this afternoon." One of the men asked him, "How are we to tell for sure whether they are carpenters or painters?" Tho spokesman told them if tliey weren't sure to use their own judgment, adding further, "You know what to do." The affidavit of John L. Coffey, sworn to September 26, 1046. Mr. Coffey describes himself as the assistant industrial relations manager of M-G-M. On September 26 he reported to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios at 5 : 30 a. m. That at the time he arrived at the Culver gate, there were approximately 209 pickets marching in a circular fashion in froiit of the entrance to the Culver gate. The pickets were marching so closely together that it was physically impossible for a person attempting to cross the picket line to cross said line, or any segment of the line, without coming in physical contact with the pickets. The entrance was completely blocked off to pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Skipping some part of this : At 5 : 50 a. m. employee whom the affiant is unable to identify attempt to cross the picket line and was assaulted by the pickets. The pickets used their picket signs as clubs, clubbing officers seeking to rescue employees. At about 7 : 30 a. m. Mr. Herbert Sorrell, president of the Conference of Studio Unions, and Mr. Averill Berman, radio comentator, appeared with a device for the amplication of the human voice and addressed tlie pickets. In sul)stance, they stated they did not desire any violence but they did not want anyone to cross the picket lines. Then he describes a whole series of incidents of people trying to get through the line, being assaulted and being attacked. For example T will read this part whicli I think is very pertinent : At 8 : 43 a. m. there were approximately 220 pickets marching across the entrance to the Culver gate. A caravan of automobiles containing employees