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COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 147 Then there is the Committee for the First Amendment, which I sup- pose could be construed as such since it has since been cited as a front organization. And as I indicated earlier, this is the total, without reservation or limitation. I have a brief list of contributions which I wanted to put in. Mr. Tavenner. What were the organizations to which you con- tributed ? Mr. Hayden. I contributed $100 to HICCASP. Three hundred dollars, one check, to Abe Polonsky. As I remember, this was for the families of the strikers in the CSU. That may be wrong. It may have been for the Communist Party. I paid my Communist Party dues. I paid my AVC dues, $2.75 per month. I paid my HICCASP dues. I once gave Tompkins $75 for the People's World when they were trying to keep on printing. That was the total. Mr. Tavenner. Were all these contributions made prior to your leaving the party ? Mr. Hayden. Except for $100 to the Committee for the First Amendment. Mr. Tavenner. You have indicated that after your relationship with the Communist Party was severed, that Karen Morley came to you and asked you to come back into the party. Mr. Hayden. Yes. Mr. Tavenner. Will you give the committee the entire transaction as it occurred ? Mr. Hayden. She came to our house. I had remarried in June of that year. She came to our house, I believe, right after or before the Committee for the First Amendment was formed. She came and said she wanted me to consider coming back in, and I said, "There is nothing to be considered. This is it. There is nothing to discuss" and so forth and so on. As she left the house I took her out to the front hall, and she said, "I hope you realize that having made that decision, it will be ex- tremely hard for you to ever get back in." And I said, "Nothing will please me more." That ended it. Mr. Tavenner. During the course of the conversation, was any- thing said about your becoming a passive member? Mr. Hayden. Yes. I forgot that. She said, "Since you don't want to be an active member, will you contribute money?" I said, "No." (Kepresentative Velde returns to the hearing room.) Mr. Tavenner. In other words, in Hollywood there is such a thing as a passive membership, or a contributing membership, without at- tending meetings and so forth ? Mr. Hayden. That is the way I understood it. Mr. Tavenner. Do you know of any instance in which that type of membership is being maintained ? Mr. Hayden. I do not. Mr. Tavenner. You have cooperated with the committee by telling the investigators, in advance of this hearing today, what you have known of communism in j^our own life and in Hollywood. Have you 81595—51—pt. 1 7