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CONFIPENTIAL On Nay 20, 1946, the Russian Consulate in Los Angeles was advised that Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sinatra and others who were named would not be able to attend the party at the Consulate that night. a -3 250, page HW) 1L00-342194=8 HOLLYWOOD STRIKE, OCTOBER, 1945 Herbert E. Sorrell, President of the Conference of Studio Unions called a strike on March 12, 1945, in a jurisdictional fight between Local 1421, Screen Set Designers, Tliustrators, am Decorators-AFL and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Hana Employees Union-AFL over which union should represent the set decorators. A War Labor Board appointed an arbitrator who handed down a directive to the studio heads telling them to recognize Sorreil's union, Local 1421, supra, but the studio heads appealed the arbitrator's decision and asked for an NLRB election which took place on May 24, 1945. However, ail of the votes cast in this election were challenged and, accordingly, NLRB withheld counting the ballots pending the decision on which of them should be declared void. The NLSB subsequently determined that Local 1421 had won the right to represent the set decorators in the Motion Picture Industry. This strike resulted in considerable e publicity at the time. On the aleanta 5 . oe oy morning of October Lo, 1945, over 300 pickets in front of Warner Brothers Studio were arrested. Sorrell ordered the pickets not to resist arrest but called upon them to return to the studio on October 11, 1945. At a meeting on October 9, 1945, Communist Party members were urged to join the picket line at Warner Brothers Studio and to demand through their respective unions the removal of the peace officers from the studio. (98-36043-16, 24, 34) The Los Angeles Office advised on October 10, 1945, that a self-appointed committee of prominent screen writers, nearly all of whom were known to be Commnist Party members , had induced Frank Sinatra to appear with them the following morning as an observer in the picket line in front of the Warner Brothers Studio. LA Teletype, October 10, 1945. : "Conference of Studio Unions, Motion Picture Industry; Sabotage, IS~c# 98=36043-11 ~~ (oe) Cor MNT 124