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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 2373
enough regard for it that I Vias willing to endnre the smear campaign that 1 knew would come and the associations which would try to be made with me, in the interest of restoring our organization in Hollywood.
I want to say also that I am not sorry that I went there ; that I am sure the history of the next few years will vindicate my position and that I Avill be able to make a real contribution to a constructive labor set-up in the Hollywood motion-picture studies.
Now there are a great many points Mr. Sorrell made which ought to be answered. Some of them deal with individuals with whom I have contacts so I want to clear up a couple of points with regard to at least two individuals, against whom Sorrell made serious allegations which were not true.
I particularly want to take up the case of Cappy DuVal.
Cappy DuVal has been pillorized by Sorrell not only in these hearings, but in every method that Sorrell and the Communist underground m Hollywood could pillory him.
The ])rincipal reason why he has been the subject of their attack is because of the stability with which he stood out against the efforts of the Communist underground and the forces with which Sorrell was associated to destroy sound labor unions in Hollywood.
He made the statement that DuVal had been brought to Hollywood from Chicago; that he was appointed to his office and that he could not be elected to his office, and made many serious charges like that. I want to give you the facts with regard to DuVal's history, so far as Hollywood is concerned.
DuVal was ap]:)ointed by the secretary-treasurer of the alliance in 1936 to go to Chicago along with three other international members or members of the international alliance to help administer the new contract which had been put into effect.
The reason they found it necessary to take someone in Hollywood was because the producers objected to them setting up a system of stewards. The local union which embraced most of the back lot employees was a local union of 9,000 members. Most of them had come in recently as a result of this reorganization and there was a serious administration problem confronting the officers of the local.
So DuVal was appointed and went there to help administer that local.
In 1938 the local was turned back to the local officials. After the contract had been put into sha]:)e and it had become a functioning institution, an election was held and the local officers were placed in charge.
At that time Mr. DuVal went back to work in Chicago as a stagehand, where he had 2:)reviously been employed before going to Hollywood.
His family did not like it in Chicago and in order to please them he went back to Hollywood and went to work at his trade in the studios. He worked along and shortly after he went back this second time these locals Avere reorganized and local No. 44 of the lATSE — which is the local embracing the alHed-property craftsmen in the studio — was organized. DuVal became a member of that local and continued to work at his trade as a property man in the studios.