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98 COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
in my opinion, would liave meant more trouble, more chaos, and no solution to the trouble, excepting that the uni(ms would have been under the complete domination of thevConununist Party. That is my opinion.
I think sanity prevailed. There was a motion presented by myself that the membership stand by its duly elected board of directors, which was majority voted, and the meeting was over.
Now, I personally would never have been seen with Mr. Sorrell if I coidd help it. He is responsible for the most incredible brutality — beatings, the overturning of cars on private property in front of the Warner Bros, studio, shocking parades, where one man almost lost an eye in front of the MGM studio — a most outrageous performance and violation of the jiicketing laws in California.
I think he did everything possible to embarrass the producers. I don't believe the Communist Party has any intention of ever having any peace of any kind, and I would regret the day that a man of Mr. Sorrel Ps characteristics should ever be in charge of the labor unions in California. God help us if he ever does.
Mr. Stripling. Do you know Mr. John Howard Lawson ?
Mr. Mexjou. I do not.
Mr. Stripling. Have you heard of him?
Mr. Menjou. Yes, sir.
Mr. Stripling. Do you know him by reputation ?
]\Ir. Menjou. Only by hearsay.
Mr. Stripling. Have you ever heard a charge that he was head of the Communist Party in Hollywood ?
Mr. Menjou. Yes, sir.
Mr. Stripling. He directed their affairs?
Mr. Menjou. I have heard that, but I cannot testify to it because I do not know.
Mr. Stripling. Do you know whether or not he participated in the picket line at Warner Bros, studio, when the cars were overturned ?
Mr. Menjou. I do not know that ; I am sorry.
Mr. Stripling. Mr. Menjou, what do you think is the best way to go about combating communism in Hollywood?
Mr. Menjou. Well, I think a great deal already has been done. The first meeting of this committee has already alerted many apathetic })eople. many people who are not aware of the incredibly serious menace that faces America. They don't take the trouble to read. I am huve that some of my fellow actors who have attacked this committee and myself had they taken the time to read and study would be of exactly the same opinion as I am. I believe that 95 percent of the l)eo]3le in California are decent, honest American citizens. The Communist Party is a minority, but a dangerous minority. I believe that the entire Nation should be alerted to its menace today. In my opinion, the Commintern has never been dissolved and the new Comminfoini which meets in Belgrade is simply an opening. No one seems to blow why they have come out into the open. They have always been underground before. The proof that they are in existence is the letter from Mr. DuBois, the pastry cook, one of the heads of the Communist Party, wrote to the Conununist Party in New York, which was published in the Daily Worker, forced Mr. Browder, the former head of the Communist P'arty, out of the party. Presumably Mr. Browder