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3506 COMMUNISM IX HOLLYWOOD MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY Mr. Tavenner. According to the Daily People's World of March 1, 1948, on page 5, you were a member of a committee sponsoring a banquet to raise funds for the defense of the Hollywood writers who had been cited for contempt of Congress. Inasmuch as you were not in Hollywood at that time, but had returned to New York, will you tell the committee how your support for that organization was solicited ? Mr. Odets. This was a very large broad front committee. In fact, I see it is called the Committee of One Thousand. This would be done through the usual means of a letter or telegram. Mr. Tavenner. Who was it that wrote you or telegraphed you ? Mr. Odets. I am sorry, I don't remember. Mr. Tavenner. Was it any group with which you had previously had connection or association? Mr. Odets. It might have been the ASCP but I don't actually know. Mr. Velde. Were you active in any other way, supporting or de- fending the Hollywood 10 ? Mr. Odets. Very little. I would think this would be the only way. Mr. Tavenner. Well, do you have any other recollections about doing anything else? Did you come to Washington or visit with any of them? Mr. Odets. Definitely not. Nothing of any large nature. Mr. Tavenner. Well, you say nothing of any large nature. Mr. Odets. Well, coming to Washington, for instance, would have been something of a large nature. 'No, I maybe signed that, and I might have signed another document. I don't remember. (Witness conferred with his counsel.) Mr. Odets. Mr. Gressman reminds me of my signature on an amicus brief to the court. I should think that that would constitute all of my connection with the matter. Mr. Velde. Did you talk to anyone about that brief before you signed it? Mr. Odets. My memory of that is that was a concerted Screen Writers' Guild effort, that is my memory of that, and a vote would be taken on the floor at the Screen Writers' Guild in Hollywood, shall we sign this or shall we not. And I went along with it. Mr. Tavenner. You didn't attend that meeting, I take it? Mr. Odets. It is possible that I did. I think I must have, if I signed it. Mr. Tavenner. Well, you were living, as I understand it, in New York at that time. You would remember if you made a trip to Hollywood, wouldn't you? Mr. Odets. Well, if I were in Hollywood I would have attended the meeting. If I were in New York I did not attend the meeting and my signature must have been obtained by mail, by some sort of mailing. Mr. Tavenner. Let me see if I can refresh your recollection as to several other connections you had with the Hollywood 10, which was just referred to. I beg your pardon, this does not relate to the Hollywood 10, it relates to the 12 Communist leaders who were tried in New York. Ac- cording to the Daily Worker of February 28, 1949, a Committee for