Hearings regarding the communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session. Public law 601 (section 121, subsection Q (1947)

COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY 373 which the Communists organized after Gerhart Eisler, an agent of llie Communist International, was convicted in the United States courts of passport fraud and contempt of Congress. Mr. Malt// affiliation with the organization is recorded in a pamphlet of the conunittee, entitled "Eisler Hits Back," page 15. Mr. Maltz also signed an api)eal to the President under the auspices of the Citizens Committee to Free Earl Browder, according to a leaflet of the organization. Earl Browder is the former general secretary of the Communist Party in the United States. The committee in his defense was cited as a Communist organization by Attorney General Biddle (Congressional Record, September 24, 1942, p. 7687) and by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities on March 29, 1944. The New York Times for October 9, 1944, page 12, listed Albert Maltz as a signer of an open letter sent to Governor Dewey of New York by the Schappes Defense Committee. This committee worked for the release of Morris U. Schappes, an avowed Communist teacher convicted of perjury in New York City, and the committee was cited as a Communist front by the Special Committee on ITn-American Activities on March 29, 1944. The Daily Worker for December 19, 1940, page 5, listed Albert Maltz as one of the signers of an appeal on behalf of Sam Darcy, a Comnuuiist organizer. Mr. Maltz' defense of Harry Bridges has previously been referred to. Mr. Bridges led the disastrous San Francisco general strike of 19.34 and was identified as a Communist Party member by the Daily Worker itself. 7. Albert Maltz has been associated with many official Communist publications. He has written for the Daily Worker, as shown by the issues of the publication for Deceml)er 16, 1933 ; September 17, 1934 : and December 21, 1935. Mr. Maltz has al.so taken an interest in the Daily Worker s financial problems. The publication on March 25, 1945, listed Mr. Maltz as a member of a committee "to sponsor support for the Daily Worker and The Worker" (the Sundayedition). The article stated under a headline reading "Leading citizens sponsor financial aid for worker" that "The committee has a wide representation of people who in their daily active work have come to accept the Daily Worker and The Worker as indispensable journals of opinion and action." Similar infoi'mation is carried in the Daily Worker for April 1, 1945. 8. New Masses is an official weekly magazine of the Communist Party. That Albert Maltz has been a contributor to New Masses is proven by the issues of tlie publication for December 15, 1936, page 37 ; January 26, 1937, page 25 ; and August 17, 1937, page 16. The Western AVorker, an official Communist publication, announced on November 30, 1936, that Albert Maltz would be among the contributors to New Masses when the New Masses' twenty-fifth anniversary issue was put out on December 10, 1936. The Daily Worker for October 7, 1938,. reported that an emergency meeting held for New Masses on the same day at the Manhattan Opera House in New York City would include a speech by Albert Maltz. The issue of New Masses for April 2, 1940. page 21, listed Albert Maltz as one of the signers of a New Masses letter to the President. All)ert Maltz served on the sponsoring committee of a morale meeting for Romain Rolland The Chairman. Mr, Gaston, on what page are you now? Mr. Gaston. Page 3. The Chairman. Page 3 ? Mr. Gaston. Yes, sir. The Chairman. What is the number of the citation ? Mr. Gaston. No. 8. The Chairman. There are 58 citations all told ? Mr. Gaston. That is correct, sir. The Chairman. Unless the committee has some objection, we will suspend further reading and place it in the record from this point on. Mr. Gaston. All right, sir, fine. (The document referred to is as follows:) — which the New Classes held at Carnegie Hall in New York on March 30, 1945. This was reported in the Daily Worker for March 14, 1945, and New Masses for April 16, 1945. 9. New Currents is a weekly magazine in the Engli.sh language dealing with Jewish matters. It has the official approval of the .lewish Commission of the Communist Party and has been cited as a Communist organization by the Committee on Un-American Activities on September 2, 1947. The issue of New Cur