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2384 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES
to have nie speak for the engineers. He gave an introduction and told about my past experience with the maritime industry.
From what I had sized up of the other speakers, the other representatives' talks, they only seemed to have a grasp of their own individual union's troubles; they did not seem to grasp the entire picture. One seemed to be going in one dii'ection and the other in another.
Well, I got up intending to talk for about 10 or 15 minutes. I never realized the time, but I guess I talked for about 2 hours. I gave them a pretty good picture of how if they wanted to win that strike they would have to go about it.
Well, out of a clear sky after the meeting was adjourned they literally dumped the strike in my lap and asked me if I would not cooperate with the strike committee in an advisory capacity and point out the pitfalls to them and help them get the strike working on a business basis.
That was about 3 o'clock in the morning that this occurred, this meeting at the stadium. I went home and got a few hours' sleep and got back down first thing next morning.
Incidentally I lost out on my job because of not being there for it — I passed up work.
I had quite a chat with the boys there. I said I would like to take a trip around the studios and see just what was going on, how they were conducting the strike.
Mr. McCann. At that time you were working for whom ?
Mr. EoBiNSON. I was working for tlie INIission Dry Corp.
JNIr. INIcCann. And you passed up your job there?
Mr. KoBiNsoN. Yes. Itwas just about the tail end of it.
Mr. McCann. So you did not go back there but you went out on this strike line at the studios?
Mr. Robinson. Well, I went up to strike headquarters.
They took me in a car and made a round of all the studios. It was— excuse my sailor term — but it was the damnedest mess I ever saw in my life. This organization had no system to the picketing. Nobody seemed to know there would be a big mob — that's all you could call it — at the studio gates.
INIr. Owens. In other words, it was massed picketing?
Mr. Robinson. It was not pic keting at all, it was just a mob. That, of course, I knew would never do.
That was customary at every studio, excepting one, and that was Warner Bros.
When I got to Warner Bros, studio they had a picket line there that v/as functioning perfectly, with military precision, at each one of the gates. They had them all fully covered. They were really doing a fine job of picketing. I was quite surprised after seeing the rest of them, particularly at Paramount. That was really a mess do^yn there.
Of course, I did not know any of the people involved in this strike. They were all strangers to me.
Mr. Kearns. Pardon me there. Were you paid ?
Mr. Robinson. No, sir; I never received 5 cents. I just went up there to help the boys out and never received a dime at any time for my assistance in that strike. In fact the boys didn't have anything to give me. I was just a union man and wanted to help them out.
I asked who was responsible for the fine picketing going on out at that studio. Thev said, "Oh, there's a painter by the name of Herb