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340 COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY when the guild as a guild went into the facts of the case to determine where the violence emanated from—it was a jurisdictional dispute— when we got the interested parties together we sat in meetings with them and argued with them, as the minutes of our executive sessions will show, for 1 whole year. We tried to get them to see that the best thing to do was to settle the strike. At the end we discovered that the recalcitrants, the CSU, were not interested in settling the strike, and we issued a statement condemning certain people. Mr. Walter. In other words, you found they were interested only in striking and causing disorder ? Mr. Garfield. They had another purpose. Mr. Walter. What was the other purpose ? Mr. Garfield. They kept changing their purpose. They started by saying it was a jurisdictional dispute. Then they changed to a fight for wages and hours. Mr. Walter. In other words, you concluded the whole thing was a Communist movement and not a legitimate labor dispute? Mr. Garfield. Well, it was not a legitimate labor dispute. Mr. Walter. It was then that you lost sympathy with the strike ? Mr. Garfield. That is right. Mr. Kearney. Do your records show it was a Communist-inspired strike? Mr. Garfield. The minutes of the Screen Actors' Guild, you mean ? No, sir. Mr. Kearney. Did the Screen Actors' Guild determine it was a Com- munist-inspired strike ? Mr. Garfield. They didn't state it that way. Mr. Kearney. But they had that in their minds ? Mr. Garfield. Yes, sir. Mr. Velde. Did you have that in your mind, Mr. Garfield % Mr. Garfield. Yes, sir; I did. Mr. Velde. What caused you to believe it was a Communist-inspired strike ? Mr. Garfield. I felt it was not a legitimate strike on the part of a labor union fighting for real demands, and that certain groups were using this strike as a wedge. Mr. Kearney. Did you know Herbert K. Sorrell ? Mr. Garfield. We met him. I didn't know him personally. Mr. Kearney. Did you know he was a Communist ? Mr. Garfield. I didn't know that, but I knew he was the fellow on the other end of the line, so to speak, and the executive board of the Screen Actors' Guild met with him to try to settle the strike. Mr. Kearney. He was against settling it ? Mr. Garfield. Yes. Mr. Kearney. As a matter of fact, it was he and his crowd who prolonged the strike? Mr. Garfield. Yes, sir. Mr. Wood. Proceed, Mr. Counsel. Mr. Tavenner. You have referred to your vote on that matter. Was Anne Revere one of those who voted on that same resolution? Mr. Garfield. I am sure she did. She was a member of the Board of the Screen Actors' Guild. Mr. Tavenner. Which way did she vote ?