Attached hereto please find copy of letter of withdrawal of the above charges. hese charges were withdrawn inasmuch as commerce is weak. I recommend ermission to withdraw be granted. Encl: E. S. F. TOWNE NYLANDER, Director. AUGUST 2, 1938. e: XXI-R-448, Schock Furniture Mfg. Co.; 451, Sterling Manufacturing Co.; 454, Knaster Furniture Co.; 455, Home Furniture Co.; 457, Eastern Cabinet Co.; 459, California Style Furn. Co.; 460, Babyline Furniture Co.; XXI-R461, American Furniture Co.; 462, Chas. S. Brown, Inc.; 466, Friends Frame & Carving Shop; 467, Sanitary Mattress Co.; 468, Parlor Furniture Mfg. Co.; 469, Sealy Mattress Co. of S. Calif.; 470, Crown Upholstering Co.; 471, Security Upholstering Co.; 472, Chas. Roth Furniture Mfg. Co. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Twenty-first Region, 745 Pacific Electric Building, Los Angeles, Calif. GENTLEMEN: This is to advise that the charges in the above matters are hereby withdrawn without prejudice. Very truly yours, UNITED FURNITURE WORKERS OF AMERICA, C. I. O., LOCAL 576, By ERNEST MARSH, Business Repres. N. L. R. B. EXHIBIT No. 427-I INTER-OFFICE COMMUNICATION To: National Labor Relations Board. From: Walter P. Spreckles, Director, 21st Region. Subject: Mason Manufacturing Company, XXI-r-449. APRIL 18, 1940. REQUEST FOR ORDER AUTHORIZING WITHDRAWAL OF PETITION The petition in this case was filed by the United Furniture Workers of America, Local 576, on February 10, 1938, acting by Walter Westfall, Business Representative. Amended petition was filed on April 22, 1938 by Ernest Marsh, Business Agent. The request for withdrawal of the petition was made by Ernest Marsh, Business Agent of the United Furniture Workers of America. The request was made in writing, copy attached. The reason for the withdrawal is that no action can be take in this case until there is compliance with the Board's Order in Case No. C-759. A Board order authorizing withdrawal of the petition is recommended. WALTER P. SPRECKLES, Director. SM:JS encl. Re: Mason Manufacturing Co., Case No. XXI-R-449. WALTER P. SPRECKLES, APRIL 12, 1940. Regional Director, 21st Region, National Labor Relations Board, 808 U. S. Postoffice & Courthouse Building, Los Angeles, California. DEAR SIR: This is to request the withdrawal of the petition in the above matter without prejudice, subject to the approval of the National Labor Relations Board. UNITED FURNITURE WORKERS OF AMERICA, LOCAL 576, C. I. O., By National Labor Relations Board approval order, dated (Regional Director.) 1940. received. (Decision and Order In the Matter of Mason Manufacturing Co., et al., Case No. C-759, was received in evidence, marked "N. L. Ř. B. Exhibit No. 427-J,” and is on file with the committee.) N. L. R. B. EXHIBIT NO. 428 MOTION PICTURE CASES N. L. R. B. EXHIBIT No. 428-A (Loew's, Inc., et al., XXI-C-864 to XXI-C-871, Incl.) 16-5 LOS ANGELES MAIN OFFICE 660 South Spring Street BANK OF AMERICA 16-5 NATIONAL TRUST & SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Pay to the order of William Bioff. The Sum of $100,000 and 00¢. No. LOS ANGELES, CALIF., June 23, 1937. A. W. WILKINS. (?) Endorsed: William Bioff. N. L. R. B. EXHIBIT NO. 428-B THE TESTIMONY OF WILLIAM BIOFF, GIVEN ON 11-8-37, IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY INTERIM COMMITTEE ON CAPITAL AND LABOR, HELD AT LOS ANGELES Q. (By Assemblyman DAWSON.) State your name and your address. A. William Bioff, 10552 Wyton Drive, Westwood. Q. Your occupation? A. Business representative. Q. Of what? A. International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees. Q. What do you call that association? A. International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees of the United States and Canada. Q. How long have you been such business representative? A. Five years. Q. Where are the headquarters of that union? Where are they located? A. The international headquarters? Q. Yes. A. Washington, D. C. Q. And what are your local headquarters for Los Angeles County? A. 501 Taft Building. Q. How do you spell that? A. T-a-f-t. Q. Oh, Taft? A. Yes, Taft Building. Q. Hollywood? A. Yes. Q. How long have they been located there? A. About a year and a half. Q. What is the membership of this union? I mean what is the membership locally here in Los Angeles County? A. We have four organizations here, and there are about eleven or twelve thousand, in that neighborhood, in the four. Q. What crafts or trades are included in it? A. Camera men, sound technicians, grips. Q. (By Assemblyman CLARK.) What is that? Q. (By Assemblyman MULDOON.) What does that cover? A. Well, they handle stage furniture and the like. Q. (By Assemblyman DAWSON.) Camera men, sound technicians, grips, and who else? A. General utility men around. Q. Any actors in it? www A. No. Q. You say you have a membership of eleven or twelve thousand? (pp. 2 to 4, inclusive.) N. L. R. B. EXHIBIT No. 428-C 'ESTIMONY OF STEPHEN B. NEWMAN, GIVEN ON Nov. 12, 1937, IN PROCEEDINGS OF CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY INTERIM COMMITTEE ON CAPITAL AND LABOR, AT LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Q. (By Assemblyman CLARK.) What is your full name, Mr. Newman? Q. S-t-e-p-h-e-n? A. That is right. Q. N-e-w-m-a-n? A. N-e-w-m-a-n. Q. Where do you reside, Mr. Newman? A. 17601⁄2 North Las Palmas Avenue, Los Angeles. Q. North Las Palmas Avenue, Hollywood? A. Right. Q. What is your position, if any, with the I. A. T. S. E.? A. I am an International representative of the I. A. T. S. E. Q. What is your position? A. My position is-I work on an assignment out of Washington office. I may be—well, if there is a new charter to be installed, a new charter applied for, it is my business as an international representative to investigate and find out whether we should put a charter in that jurisdiction. If approved, I go in later and install the charter, conduct the meetings during the election of officers, and get the organization started out in the proper way. Q. How long have you been engaged in that capacity? A. Well, on and off I have been an International representative. I was vicepresident of the International. I was assistant Q. When were you vice-president? A. Well, I think I was appointed first on the board in 1918. I am not certain of that. Q. You were merely a member? A. Yes. Q. And you would not have known if an election was held and set aside? A. Well, I should have known, because when I resigned from Local 37, as their business representative, they made me a life member of their organization, presented me with life membership, so if there had been an election, I would have been notified because they had my address at all times. Q. You know of no such election? A. No. Q. And consequently know nothing about such an election being set aside? A. No. Q. (By Assemblyman CLARK.) Now, Mr. Newman, will you continue with your narrative, as to what occurred when you met Mr. Browne and went on to New York? A. We met with the producers of the major studios. Q. Who did you meet with, and where? A. We met in-I don't know the name of the building, but it was in the same building where Pat Casey has his office. He was their labor contact man. think it was about 47th or 48th and Broadway. Q. Was Casey present? I A. Oh, yes, he was there. In fact a representative from all of the major studios was there. Q. Do you know the names of any of those representatives? A. Yes. Q. Who? A. Mr. Harry Warner, of Warner Brothers; Mr. Nick Schenck, of M-G-M; Mr. Otterson, who was then head of Paramount at that time, and well, I can't recall, there were more than that there. There was probably seven or eight, and possibly nine men representing the larger studios in Los Angeles, and Mr. Casey was there. And then also Mr. Hutchinson, of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners was there, representing that organization President Tracy, of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. 218054-41-vol. 24, pt. 2-88 Q. Now, when you say electrical workers, are those the electrical workersA. (Interrupting.) That's the I. B. E. W., International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. And Mr. Joe Weber, President of the American Federation of Musicians. There was a man representing the teamsters there. I don't recall his name just now, but he was one of their International men, who had been delegated by their International President to attend that meeting. They were the labor organizations who were parties to the basic agreement in the studios at that time. The matter was thoroughly discussed as to our rights in the studios, and our jurisdiction, and after a thorough discussion of the question, President Browne retired to an anteroom with Mr. Hutchinson, and then with each one of the different International Presidents, and then we all got together again, and out of the conference came the jurisdiction in the studios, and we became a part of the basic agreement. Q. (By Assemblyman TENNEY.) That was what year? A. That was in the I believe that was in December, 1935. It was decided at that time, and for the first time in the studios in Los Angeles, that we would have a closed shop condition. (pp. 171 to 175 inc.) TESTIMONY OF STEPHEN B. NEWMAN, GIVEN ON Nov. 12, 1937, IN PROCEEDINGS OF CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY INTERIM COMMITTEE ON CAPITAL AND LABOR, at LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Q. (By Assemblyman CLARK.) Who did you confer with? A. With the last executive boards that had been elected; I think Mr. Shaw said in 1932 was the last election. But anyhow all of these same executive boards-nobody had been elected, as I recall it, and I called them together and from time to time discussed matters with them as to what we could do, and try to get members back into the organization, because our jurisdiction had been taken over by other labor organizations, when we went out on strike. I didn't make much headway, as far as organization is concerned. Our Laboratory Local 683 was absolutely defunct; they had no paying members whatever. The Sound Local 695 did have a few members, paying dues to their secretary, but they were paying nothing to our International Alliance. In fact according to our by-laws, that was a defunct organization. Q. (By Assemblyman DAWSON.) That was the sound technician? A. Yes. The camera men had, I believe, something less than 70 paying members. Q. What was the number of their local? A. 659. Along in there, something between 60 and 70 paying members, and they were functioning as an organization, as far as that was concerned, but had no standing in the studios, because the studios had signed an agreement with another organization, known as the A. S. C., the American Society of Cinematographers, they had a closed shop agreement with that organization. Our men were working with the independents and wherever they could pick up a day, here and there, but they were a going organization. Local 37 had, I believe I won't give you this figure as absolutely correct, but I believe they had 32 or 36 paying members. They had more members than that on the books, but I think they had about 19 or 20 members of the executive board, were exempt from dues, because they were members of the executive board. Well, that was the condition of the organization when I came in. A little later, in December, I believe it was, the forepart of December, our International President Browne informed me--telephoned me to come on to Chicago, and I went on to Chicago and he told me there had been a meeting arranged between the employees and the International President of such labor organizations who were parties to the basic agreements, to be held in New York. We started to New York. Q. (By Assemblyman TENNEY.) May I interrupt at this point, Mr. Newman? Was there any election held by Local 37, in 1934? A. No, not that I know of. I was not connected with them in 1934. I was a member of the organization, but if there was an election I didn't know anything about it. N. L. R. B. EXHIBIT No. 428-D 'ESTIMONY OF WILLIAM Bioff, Given on Nov. 17, 1937, at Los Angeles in PROCEEDINGS OF CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY INTERIM COMMITTEE ON CAPITAL AND LABOR What are these particular unions that you Q. (By Assemblyman DAWSON.) Lave this jurisdictional difficulty with? A. Well, the Carpenters', the Electrical Workers, the Plasterers, the Plumbers, he Sheet Metal Workers. Q. They get mixed up with the prop man, is that it? A. That's right. Q. Well, now, with reference to the termination of this emergency, of which we have heard, what conversation have you had with Mr Browne as to that termination? A. The conversations we have had-the first time we talked about it we expected when our Board met here several months ago is when we would have turned it back. And then the jurisdictional fights came about, and we had to stay here and watch it, and see that the thing was straightened out, or they would be devoured, like they were before. Q. Like they were before; when you took them over A. When we took them over, we had nothing. izations. 150 members in all four organ Q. And at that time you entered into a closed shop agreement for these four locals, as to their work? A. That's right. Q. In all of the studios in Hollywood? A. That's right. Q. And that agreement, as I understand, was consummated in New York? A. That's right. N. L. R. B. EXHIBIT No. 428-D BEFORE THE GRAND JURY OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY FOR 1938, MEETING ROOM OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, COURT HOUSE, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, A. D. 1938. IN THE MATTER OF THE INVESTIGATION OF THE CONDUCT OF MEMBERS OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY CONCERNING PROPOSED LEGISLATION PENDING BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA From Reporter's Transcript of Testimony Given and Proceedings Had Upon Said Investigation. (p. 276, 1.8.) Testimony of EARL R. GILBERT, witness produced before the Grand Jury in the matter of said investigation, Sworn. EXAMINATION BY GEORGE M. NAUS, SPECIAL PROSECUTOR Q. Your full name? A. Earl R. Gilbert. Q. And you are connected with some bank? A. Yes, sir. Q. Which one? A. The Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles. Q. Any particular branch? A. I am Vice President and Manager of the University-Westwood Branch. Q. And you have been subpoenaed to bring certain records, have you? Q. Have you brought them? A. Yes, sir. Q. Will you produce them, please, and, without going into detail, state generally for the record an identifying description of what you have brought. A. Well, I have brought the originals and also an exact copy of them and I was wondering if I could certify to the copies or get photostatic copies rather than leave the originals of the various-what I have brought. Q. You have brought the originals, however, have you? A. I have the originals. |