Excerpt from Jurisdictional Disputes in the Motion-Picture Industry, Vol. 1: Hearings Before a Special Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First-Session, Pursuant to H. Res. 111; Hearings Held at Los Angeles, Calif., August 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 22, 25. 26, 1947 The subcommittee met at 10 a. M., in room 324, United States Post Office Building and Courthouse, the Honorable Carroll D. Kearns (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Mr. Kearns. The hearing will come to order, and I would like to make this opening statement. It was originally planned to commence this hearing with certain public witnesses, with the idea that the committee might secure as quickly as possible an over-all view of the Hollywood jurisdictional strife from an impartial point of View. Since arriving in Los Angeles we have had so many conflicting reports with respect to the real issues which are involved that the committee has decided to hear industry witnesses first, and, if possible, to follow those witnesses with the local labor leaders and complainants of the warring factions in Hollywood. It seems to me that it will be better to have the public witnesses follow rather than go before industry and labor. In this was, it is hoped, we will be able to secure a more impartial summary of the facts by the public witnesses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.