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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 2383
advice as to how they could go about the formation of the federation. I did.
I gave him an outline of what we had gone through in the maritime industry.
Mr. McCann. When did you do that ?
Mr. Robinson. That was in, I would say, the latter part of 1936. It was while I was employed with Mission Dry and was working at the time as a stationary engineer.
Shortly after that — I don't remember just how long it was, but it don't seem to me that it was over 6 weeks or so after I had been out — that there was a strike called in the studios of all these organizations that had been in there. I believe the only ones that were not involved were the lATSE and the electrical workers, the IBEW. They did not participate. However, the carpenters, the machinists, painters, and all the other crafts, including my own, went out on strike. That was the first I knew about it when I read about it in the paper.
Mr. McCann. You are talking about your own as the stationary engineers ?
Mr. Robinson. That is right.
Mr. McCann. They went out on strike ?
Mr. Robinson. That is right.
Mr. McCann. All right ; proceed.
Mr. Robinson. I think we had some 42 men involved in that strike.
Mr. McCann. Proceed.
Mr. Robinson. Then 3 days after the strike was called — no ; 2 days after the strike was called — I attended a meeting at my local.
Mr. McCann. What was the name of your local ?
Mr. Robinson. International Union of Operating Engineers. I think it was local No. 63.
Mr. McCann. Are you still a member of that ?
Mr. Robinson. No ; I am not. I have been away from the stationary game for some time.
Mr. McCann. Go ahead.
Mr. Robinson. Mr. Knowlton, as the business agent, was not a very good speaker. They were going to have a meeting of all the strikers at the Hollywood Legion Stadium the next evening. He told me the membership at the local that while I was not an officer of their organization or anything of that kind, I had been very helpful to them at the previous meeting out in Hollywood and that he would like to have the organization authorize me as a delegate to go to that meeting at the Hollywood Legion Stadium, for the operating engineers. He asked me if I would do it and I assured him that I would be glad to. Anything that I could do to help them I would be glad to do.
I appeared at that meeting that night. My organization being the smallest organization numerically involved in the strike, we were tiie last ones to be heard, so it gave me a pretty good idea of what was going on in the strike. I could see that there wasn't much coordination because I heard the representatives of all the other organizations talking.
It appeared to me that if they continued the way they were going the strike was going to fall apart, and undoubtedly it would have. In fact, I think quite a few of tlie boys had gone back to work already.
Finally they got around to my organization and Mr. Knowlton, as our business representative, got up and said he would like very much