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2312 COMMUNISM IN HOLLYWOOD MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY (Representative Donald L. Jackson left the hearing room at this point.) Mr. Levy. And then, about some months later, I went—this was at a time when I was engaged in a biography of a man named Tom Mooney, and I met Mr. Mooney on the coast. I had a contract with Harcourt Brace to publish this book. Mr. Tavenner. Let me interrupt you there. Mr. Levy. Am I saying more than I should? Mr. Tavenner. I want you to present it as you desire, but at times I would like to interrupt you. Mr. Levy. Please do. Mr. Tavenner. And ask you for more detailed information. Mr. Levy. Please do. Mr. Tavenner. I am interested to know why it was that Earl Brow- der was interested in your membership to the extent that he would suggest that you become a member at large. Mr. Levy. Well, I cannot answer that in any accurate way. I imagine that I was not the only person in this situation. I think he regarded me as a good writer, which I like to think of myself as being. That is it. Mr. Tavenner. At the time that you became a member at the so- licitation of Mr. Browder, did you engage in any particular study in company with other members of the Communist Party? Mr. Levy. No, sir. This was my understanding: That I was not to be required to go to any meetings of any kind; that I was to have conversations with Mr. Browder, as I desired them. Mr. Tavenner. What efforts were made to indoctrinate you in the principles of the Communist Party at that time? Mr. Levy. I was just trying to think. I talked to him a number of times, and I suppose that would be it. I don't think there was— there was no intense program. I mean, nothing that I can say "This is it." We had a number of discussions; I suppose four or five or six. Mr. Tavenner. Very well. You may proceed. You were telling us about your work in writing the life story of Tom Mooney. Mr. Levy. Tom Mooney. And I went to the coast then, to San Francisco, and had met Mr. Mooney. (Representative Donald L. Jackson returned to the hearing room at this point.) Mr. Levy. I met Mr. Mooney, and he was an extraordinary man. And I very quickly found that the book was being destroyed for my purposes, because there were things going on. The Mooney Molders Committee was fighting with other people, and the book was being molded by decisions that were made that had nothing to do with the book. Mr. Tavenner. These decisions that were made that seemed to alter the normal course that such a book should take were being made by whom ? Mr. Levy. I don't know. They came to me from Mooney. They came to me from Mooney or his sister. But they were having fights with all kinds Of people whom I don't know. I was not their confi- dante. Mr. Tavenner. I want to find out as to what extent the Communist Party endeavored, if at all, there.