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68 COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
most of tlioni liave been eliminated. They have to go to these schools. They put on plays. They get parts, they study and become efficient, and we see them in the theaters, or see them in some Pasadena playhouse, or something like that, but the laboratory theater. I think, is very definitely under the control of the Comnumist Party and the people that teach there. Any kid that goes in there with American ideals hasn't a chance in the world.
There is another thing that worries me and that is the art centers. I think most of these places are partly supported by the GI, and I think those boys are getting some poison that is not good for them.
Then Ave have the educational center out there
Mr. Stkipling. Is that the Peoples Educational Center?
Mr. Wood. Yes. Eddie Dmytryk — I referred to him — is the instructor there, so you get an idea of what they are getting to.
Mr. Stripling. Is he a director?
Mr. Wood. Yes.
Mr. Stripling. Do you know whether the Peoples Educational Center is a successor to the School for Writers of the League of American Writers ?
Mr. Wood. I didn't get that.
Mr. Stripling. Do you know whether or not the Peoples Educational Center is a successor to the School for Writers of the League of American Writers ?
Mr. Wood. I am not quite sure of that. I think some of the other men from our organization who will follow may have the facts on t hose things.
Mr. Stripling. All right.
Mr. Wood. I am sorry I cannot give it to you.
Mr. STRiPLiN(i. I'hose are all the questions I have, Mr. Chairman.
The Chairman. Does anv other member have any other questions?
Mr, McDowell ?
Mr! McDowKLL. Have you read Trostky's book, ''Stalin?"
Mr. Wood. No,
Mr. McDowell. You said here a moment ago you had termed antiSemitic and Fascist. Trostky named Stalin time after time after time, in his book, as being anti-Semitic, so on that point alone you and Stalin stand together?
Mr. Wood. That doesn't stop there. There are personal matters and everything else. We are constantly being threatened, and so on.
Mr. McDowell. Thank you.
The Chairman. Mr. AVood, to use the slang expression, you really lay it on the line. If the great, great majority of persons in industry, labor, and education showed the same amount of courage that you show we would not have to worry about commamism or fascism in this country. In other words, you've got guts.
Mr. Wood. Thank you very much. You Avill find the men in our organization have the same, sir.
The Chairman. Thank you.
Mr. Stripling. Mr. Chairuum, I want the record to show jSIr. Wood is here in response to a subpena which was served upon him.^''
The Chairman. Thank you. (Witness excused.)
" See appendix, p. 524, for exhibit 19.
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