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COMMUNISM IN HOLLYWOOD MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 4259 was the matter?" And I would say I had told Mr. Huebsch I did not intend coming to any more. And I didn't do so. I moved to the beach to write my novel, and some time in the spring, not too long after I had moved to the beach, someone whose name I do not recall, but I think is the son-in-law of a writer called Sonya Levine—I don't know his name, and I may even be wrong, but I think that is who it was—visited me at the beach and asked me why I hadn't attended meetings. Once more I repeated that I had no intention of doing so. He asked me for back dues. I refused. I remember he asked me for a check for the People's World. I refused that, and I told him I was no longer in the party, and that my novel was going to take up all my time, that I was completely against what the party now stood for. And he argued, and he got nowhere, and he left, and that was my last contact with any member of the association or party, in the spring of 1948. Mr. Tavenner. Did this cell or group have a name? Mr. Schoenfeld. If it had, sir, I never heard it. I don't believe it did. Mr. Tavenner. You stated that you were reprimanded for writing things that you wanted to write about. Mr. Schoenfeld. Yes. For instance, if I wanted to write of any- thing that had no what the}' loved to call "social content." And a writer would like to write about, oh, almost anything, whether it is a story about marriage or a story about a dog or anything else. But it was always: "You are wasting your time. You should be writing as a cultural worker. You should be writing''—what they would suggest you write. And they would criticize very often at meetings those well-known writers, for instance, who at one time had written of social change and now were doing so no longer, you see. And any creative artist worth his salt can't put up with this kind of superimposition very long. Mr. Tavenner. What reply did you receive, or what reaction did you receive, when you advised Ed Huebsch that you would discon- tinue your membership in the Communist Party? Mr. Schoenfeld. Well, he spent about 10 to 15 minutes after that last meeting was over trying to give me every intellectual reason why I shouldn't, and said that he would meet with me. I told him it wouldn't do any good, and he never did. All I got were the tele- phone calls. And then this chap who came down to the beach tried to argue; never on an emotional level, always on a kind of—I don't know why, a high intellectual and philosophical line. Mr. Tavenner. I believe your name appeared in the amicus curiae of the brief. Mr. Schoenfeld. Yes; it did, sir. Mr. Tavenner. In the Dalton Trumbo case. Will you tell us the circumstances under which your name was used? Mr. Schoenfeld. Well, I went to a guild meeting, and I learned that Judge Arnold had been hired to represent the guild itself as a friend of the court. And since the guild itself appeared as amicus curiae, I saw no reason for not signing. Mr. Tavenner. Were you afliliated with the Committee for the First Amendment?