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4254 COMMUNISM IN HOLLYWOOD MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY In all this speaking at the Writers' Congress and the Hollywood Mobilization and lectures on radio, there seemed to me to be the ways by which I could help the war effort. But at that time I had no thought of or identification with or really understanding of the Communist Political Association. Mr. Tavenner. Now, I interrupted you. You were telling the committee of your joining the Communist Political Association in 1945. Mr. Schoenfeld. Correct, sir. Mr. Tavenner. I wish you would tell the committee just what your experience was in the Communist Party, where you met, the names of persons who met with you. Mr. Schoenfeld. Well, at the meetings which I subsequently at- tended, I met the following members. I have them written down here, if I may read them: Michael Uris, U-r-i-s, Dorothy Tree, T-r-e-e, Hugo Butler, Frank Tuttle, Tanya Tuttle, Edward Huebsch, H-u-e-b-s-c-h, Bernard Vor- haus Mr. Tavenner. What was that name? Mr. Schoenfeld. Vorhaus, Vo-r-h-a-u-s, Stanley Roberts, Herbert Biberman, Michael Wilson, Paul Trivers, Jane Trivers, Meta Reis, M-e-t-a R-e-i-s, Hetty Vorhaus. Mr. Tavenner. How do you spell the first name ? Mr. Schoenfeld. H-e-t-t-y, I believe. Jack Berry, Gale Sondergaard, Richard Collins. Between the time I joined, in April or May 1945, and October 1945, I attended no more than a dozen meetings. I took no political assign- ments. At those meetings there were discussions mostly about the role of the cultural worker, and I would sit and listen, and was a passive member, inasmuch as I was given no political assignments of any kind. I attended no fraction meetings. I paid only the basic dues. And I refused even to be assessed according to salary. Then, in October 1945, I left for New York City, and I remained there a year. Mr. Tavenner. Now, just at that point: Where was your meeting place ? Mr. Schoenfeld. The first meeting that I ever attended, in the spring of 1945, was at the home of Michael Uris in Hollywood, and geographically, the meetings were held in homes adjacent to or around that district, where Mr. Uris lived, and those homes belonged to Ed- ward Huebsch, Frank Tuttle, Herbert Biberman, Jack Berry, Paul Trivers, and Hugo Butler. Mr. Tavenner. Did you meet in the homes of each of those persons whose names you have just mentioned ? Mr. Schoenfeld. I did, sir. Mr. Tavenner. Do you mean by that statement also to say that each of those persons were members of your group or unit of the Communist Party? Mr. Schoenfeld. I do, sir. Mr. Tavenner. And these meetings to which you referred: Were they Communist Party meetings?