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190 COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
Mr. NiBLO. Practically all of them.
Mr. Smith. Could you name some of them that you have worked with?
Mr. NiBLO. Warner Bros., Twentieth Century-Fox, Metro-GoldwynMayer, Columbia, RKO.
Mr. Smith. At the present time, whom are you empk)yed by ?
Mr. NiBLO. I am employed by Eagle Lion Studios at the pregent time.
Mr. Smith. Are you a member of the Screen Writers Guild?
Mr. NiBLO. Yes.
Mr. Smith. How long have you been a member of the Screen Writers Guild ?
Mr. NiBLo. I belonged to the old guild prior to its inactivation in 19?)6. The revived or reactivated guild I belonged to 6 or 7 years.
Mr. Smith. During the time that you have been associated with the Screen Writers Guild and a writer in Hollywood, have you at any time observed anything that you would feel is communistic influence in the guild, the Screen Writers Guild?
Mr. NiBLo. Very definitely.
Mr. Smith. Would you explain why you arrived at that conclusion and how ?
Mr. NiBLo. I noticed this very definitely — in fact, I am convinced — that the Screen Writers Guild has been the spark plug and the spearhead of the Communist influence and infiltration in Hollywood.
I would like to preface this with a statement. There is a sense in which I hate to spout these decisions,. This is my guild. I believe in the guild as such. I think we should have a guild out there. And there is no denying that this guild has done some economic good for the working writers. But my testimony wouldn't be complete unless I also took note of the group of moderates which has been formed, the moderate movement which has boiled up in the guild in the last 15 months and which is endeavoring to wrest some of the control from the Communist faction and which has already succeeded in instituting some reforms.
I might say that Mr. Emmett Lavery has associated himself with this moderate movement.
However, if you want me to elaborate on what influence I saw — I hesitated to join the guild in the first place. I had been around Hollywood long enough to loiow that it was in control of John Howard Lawson and company, and I didn't want to tangle with those men. I didn't want to be involved in a fight. I held out as long as I could, but eventually I had to join the guild.
As soon as I got in, the suspicions I had of that kind of leadership were confirmed. I found that some of those characters whose names have been mentioned here throughout this testimony were in virtual control of the guild. They held the offices — not all of the offices, but most of them. They were the floor whips, so to speak — the majority. They were the obvious leaders of the guild.
That is one of the evidences that I adduce. Another one is the fact that I had no sooner gotten in the guild when I began receiving things. I wondered where they got my name and address, for their mailing lists. Announcements from outfits with names such as the League for the Promotion of American-Russian Friendship. May I say this was discontinued very quickly. This is some years ago. Some other