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2386 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES
Mr. McCanx. Three days after the strike was called you came into the picture?
Mr. Robinson. I came into the picture at the Hollywood Legion stadium.
The fourth day was the day I made the rounds of the picket lines and met Herb Sorrell and he was appointed picket captain for the entire strike.
Mr. McCann. You made him what he was then, didn't you?
Mr. Robinson. Well, more or less when I took him out of the picket line,
Mr. McCann. Proceed, then.
Mr. Robinson. Well, he was quite proud of the result. Of course, as I say, I did not know anything about any of the boys up there then. They were all strangers to me.
I met all the boys out there but I met so many of them I could not remember half their names. I think I knew most of the boys who were business agents. They came too fast for me.
But the strike was progressing very nicely. So this day Herb and I made a trip around the picket lines.
Mr. McCann. How long after you met Herb was that?
Mr. Robinson. That was about 4 days.
Mr. McCann. Four days after you met Herb ?
Mr. Robinson. It had only been 4 or 5 days he had been conducting the picketing and had it organized. We made the rounds of Paramount, RKO, and all the rest of the studios, out to Culver City, and then over into the Valley, Universal, Warner Bros. After making the round I went up to Herb's home at Burbank and we started back to the strike headquarters.
Mr. Owens. You went to his home, you say ?
Mr. Robinson. Yes, sir.
Mr. Owens. Did he have a family at that time ?
Mr. RoDiiNstvc. Yes, sir. He was married and I think he had one youngster, if I am not mistaken. I think he told me he had one youngster.
Mr. Owens. Did you meet his wife or his youngster?
Mr. Robinson. I believe I did. I was in his home, but he just stopped to pick up something. It was just a moment's stop there.
Mr. Owens. Just a casual visit ?
Mr. Robinson. A casual visit. It didn't amount to anything. He said he wanted to drop up to the house before going back to the strike.
Of course. Herb didn't know anything more about me than I knew about him, excepting the fact that I had been on the water front.
So on the way back he asked me how I happened to get out of the water-front picture.
"Oh," I said, "I had a little disagreement with the Communist group, didn't see eye to eye with them, and they boosted me."
So we got into a discussion about the Communist Party and the labor movement. I said, "Well. I never trusted them very much; it is my opinion that the ConimuK'st Pai-ty is the worst enemy of organized labor that I know of and all the chambers of commerce, merchants, and manufacturers, and like organizations that there are."
Well, we had quite a discussion on it. Then he finally said, "Well," he said, "I don't believe it. In fact, I am a member of it, I am a member