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COMMUNISM IN HOLLYWOOD MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 3473 Mr. Odets. A short time after. Mr. Tavenner. "Well, did this experience have any motivating effect upon your decision, to either stay in or get out of the Communist Party? Mr. Odets. I would say it had considerable effect on my decision. I must admit frankly I resented the professionalism. I thought, let me say it this way, in a certain moral and idealistic level, and I re- sented the professionalism of the cut and dried way in which this was done. I simply said this is not for me, I am not a professional busi- nessman, my business is writing plays and I better get out of this. I don't want to be used. And if this is an example, the expedition was largely responsible for me leaving the Communist Party. Mr. Kearney. But that article was written before you left the Communist Party ( Mr. Odets. I guess so. Mr. Tavenner. When did you return from Cuba ? Mr. Odets. I guess this all happened' in June of 1935—June or maybe early July. Mr. Tavenner. Does that aid you in any way in stating just what month it was that you left the Communist Party? Mr. Odets. Well, I will say again to the best of my knowledge it would be in the latter half of 1935, the year 1935. Mr. Tavenner. Did you advise anyone in writing or verbally of your intention to withdraw from the party? Mr. Odets. I must have, but I don't remember it. Mr. Wood. The committee will stand in recess until half-past two. (Whereupon, at 12:20 p. m., the hearing was recessed until 2:30 p. m. the same day.) afternoon session (The subcommittee reconvened at 3: 10 p. m., with Representatives John S. Wood, chairman, and James B. Frazier, Jr., being present.) Mr. Wood. Come to order, please. Are you ready to proceed ? Mr. Tavenner. Yes, sir. Mr. Chairman. I would like at this point to have made a part of the record information contained in the files, that is, in the files of the committee, regarding several of those who participated as mem- bers of the American Commission To Investigate Labor and Social Conditions in Cuba. Jose Santiago, as shown by the committee files, was a candidate for the State assembly for the Seventeenth District of New York County on the Communist Party ticket, according to the Daily Worker of November 2,1936, at page 5. Frank Griffin was a candidate for district attorney, Kings County, on the Communist Party ticket, according to the Daily Worker of October 19, 1935, at page 5. Celeste Strack was a candidate on the Communist Party ticket for nomination to the office of Representative to Congress from the Thirteenth Congressional District for Los Angeles County, in 1940. Mr. Odets, in your earlier testimony before the committee, you referred to the manner in which your plays had been received by the Communist Party in the nature of the criticism which you said your