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COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 153 and be counted and be judged on the facts, it would clarify the situa- tion. Mr. Doyle. Is it or not a fact that the moving-picture industry or colony has been pretty actively endeavoring to clean up the situa- tion? Mr. Hayden. I think that would expedite it. Mr. Doyle. You haven't answered my question. Mr. Hayden. I am sorry. Mr. Doyle. I will ask it this way: To your knowledge has the moving-picture industry been endeavoring to clean up its own house ? Mr. Hayden. I certainly think it has. Mr. Doyle. Do you think it is doing a pretty good job of it? Mr. Hayden. I think it is; so far as I know. Mr. Doyle. I take it your voluntary testimony this morning is what you feel should be done by other former Communists who hap- pened to be engaged in the art of acting ? Mr. Hayden. That it is. That is up to them, but that is my re- action. Mr. Doyle. As you testified, I quickly made notes of this part of your testimony: I was boiling inside. If I could do something about conditions, it might justify my being an actor with high income and pleasant working conditions. Do you recall stating substantially that? Mr. Hayden. Yes, sir. Mr. Doyle. What were the conditions that you were boiling up in- side about, that you wanted to help correct ? Mr. Hayden. I think it was a peculiarly personal thing with me. I came into the industry with an irregular background, with no back- ground in the conventional way of earning a living, having always been at sea. I suddenly found myself making a lot of money and not doing a great deal of work for it, and I felt a responsibility I should have had earlier as an American citizen. I had never thought politically before. All of this came to focus at one time, and, un- fortunately perhaps, the increment that set it off was my experience in Yugoslavia. (Representative Kearney enters hearing room.) Mr. Doyle. At that time you were not interested in any economic conditions facing our country; it only involved your personal boiling up inside? Mr. Hayden. That is very close to being correct. Mr. Doyle. Am I correct? Mr. Hayden. You are very nearly correct. Mr. Doyle. It was a personal matter? Mr. Hayden. Yes. Mr. Doyle. When Bea Winters in June 1946 handed you an appli- cation and asked why you didn't join the party—I believe that was your testimony ? Mr. Hayden. Yes. Mr. Doyle. And then told you you could not be a member of a cell where all members were actors, for security reasons, didn't it then occur to you there was something phony or dangerous about the