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)

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2382 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES zations wanted me to stay in and offered me membership in their organizations, but the principle of it was wrong because I am a marine engineer and a ship's officer and I did not feel that that would be right ; it would be more or less of a subterfuge and sooner or later it would cause trouble. Mr. McCann. Proceed now. Mr. Robinson. So I resigned as president of the District Council No. 4. At that time I was considered Harry Bridges' biggest opponent on the Pacific coast, that is, I led the opposition. Harry Lundberg was a very able sidekick of mine, and Bill Fisher, of Seattle. I represented the engineers, Harry Lundberg the sailors, and Fisher the longshoremen. Mr. McCann. What time did you resign ? Mr. Robinson. I haven't got the exact date but it was in '36. Mr. McCann. Was it in the fall, the spring, the summer, or when? Mr. Robinson. I think it was along in the latter part of the year. Mr. McCann. Then what did you do ? Mr. Robinson. Well, I was without a job, of course, so I went up to the Board of Mechanical Engineers of the City of Los Angeles and took the examination as a stationary engineer; I passed it, and in due time received my license as a stationary engineer and obtained a position with Mission Dry Corp. as stationary engineer. I was also with the Pepsi-Cola Co. Mr. McCann. How long were you with the Mission Dry Corp. ? Mr. Robinson. I was with them on two different occasions. They process orange juice and during the processing seasons I put in two seasons with them. Mr. McCann. Was that the winter of '36 and '37 or when was that? Mr. Robinson. That was the winter of '36. Mr. INIcCann. Were you with them the winter of '37 ? Mr. Robinson. No ; when I finished that first period with them then I went on the frequency change job for the city of Los Angeles bureau of power ancl light. Mr. McCann. How long were you there ? Mr. Robinson. That was about an 8 months' job. Mr. McCann. When did you start and when did you get through ? Mr. Robinson. I am not exactly sure of that, because I would have to check back. That was about an 8 months' job to convert from 50 to 60 cycle the whole city of Los Angeles. Mr. McCann. Then what did you do ? Mr. Robinson. I worked at the Mission Dry Corp. for a short time. I had joined the International Union of Operating Engineers during the time that I was a stationary engineer. I had only been in there a short time and Charlie Knowlton, the business agent of the operating engineers, of course had heard of my reputation on the water front, my activity and strife and so forth. We had — when I say "we" I mean the engineers local — had quite a number of members in the studios, employed at the studios as engineers. At that time they were forming an organization. They wanted to form an organization patterned after our American Federation. He asked me if I would not go out with them to one of the meetings of all the representatives of the various studio unions and lend them some