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)

374 COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY rents for March 1944, page 2, lists Albert Miiltz as a member of the advisory board of the magazine. 10. Mainstream is a literary magazine which has been prominently promoted by the Communist press and which advertises itself in the Daily Worker as a "Marxist literary quarterly." The Worker for September 22, 1946, lists Albert Maltz as a member of the editorial board of Mainstream. 11. People's World is the official west coast organ of the Communist Pai'ty. Albert Maltz was a speaker at a meeting entitled "Hollywood Forum" which was .held in Los Angeles on April 9, 1946, under the auspices of the People's World, according to the Daily Worker for April 15, 1946, page 11. The People's World of July 26, 1944, reported that it would run a short-story contest between August 1, 1944, and February 1, 1945, and that Albert Maltz would be one of the judges of the contest. The People's World for June 1, 1945, said it was running a shortstory contest and that Mr. Maltz was serving as a .ludge. 12. Among other associations with the Communist press. Albert Maltz is shown to have served on tlie editorial council of Equality, according to issues of the anagazine for July 1939, June 1940, and July 1940. Equality, which apiieared from May 1939, until late 1940, consistently followed the Communist Party line and its managing editor was Abraham Chapman who has been identified as John Arnold, a member of the New York State Jewish Buro of the Communist Party. Albert Maltz was one of the incorporators of Jewish Survey, according to records of incorporation of New Y'^ork State. Jewish Survey, incorporated in 1939 and dissolved on December 2, 1942, was run by writers for the Communist press such as Louis Harap. Contributors included David Zaslavsky of the Moscow Pravda and Max Perlow and Albert E. Kahn, well-known Communist leaders. Mr. Maltz was a contributor to Laisve. official Communist publication in the Lithuanian language field, according to a copy of the paper for May 28, 1941. Mr. Maltz also contributed to Neues Deutschland (New Germany), official organ of the Free German Ct)mmittee of Mexico, which had its headquarters in Moscow and whicli consisted largely of Communist refugees like Otto Katz and Paul Merker. He contributed to the January 1945 issue and the March and April 1946 issues of Neues Deutschland. It should be noted that it is standard practice for the Daily Worker and other Communist publicjitions to accept only Communist Party members for official positions on the publications. It need scarcely be observed that contributors to such publications are required to follow the Communist Party line in their writings. 13. Official Communist publishing houses have published works by Albert Maltz. Mr. Maltz is listed as one of the authors in an International Publishers catalog, undated, and also in a catalog issued by the Workers Library Publishers in 1938. International Publishers in 1935 published a book entitled "Proletarian Literature in the United States" which included one of Albert Maltz' short stories. The Daily Worker lor July 12, 1938, announced that International Publishers was issuing a book of short stories by Mr. Maltz entitled "The Way Things Are." The Department of Justice has cited International Publishers as a "publishing agency of the Communist Party" (brief in the case of William Schneiderman, p. 145). It has been similarly cited by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities on March 29, 1944. 14. Official Communist sources have frequently voiced approval of Albert Maltz' writings. Communist International, the official organ of the Communist International, on the back cover of its May 1938 issue advertised Mr. Maltz' book, The Way Things Are, and described the book as "a book of stirring stories of the class struggle in tlie United States." The official west coast Communist organ, the People's World, on January 4, 1945, page 5, listed Mr. ]\Ialtz' book. The Cross and the Arrow, as one of the 25 best books of 1944 and the reviewer stated that : "With this novel Maltz earned a position among the leading figures in American fiction today." The Progressive Book Shop, one of a Nation-wide chain of Communist book shops, held a Meet the Author Party to publicize Maltz' book. The Cross and the Arrow, according to the California Eagle for October 5, 1944. Albert Maltz himself testified before the California Legislative Committee on Un-American Activities on October 13. 1!44, that the I'l-ogrcssive Book Shop had sponsored an autographing party for this book of his. The Cross and the Arrow was made a selection of the Book Find Club, according to Plain Talk for May 1947, page 28. The Book Find Club is a Communist version of the book-ofthe-month clubs and promotes the writings of authors symi)athetic to the Com■munist viewpoint. The Abraham Lincoln School, Chicago, has been cited as a Communist front by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities on March 29, 1944, and has been refused support by the American Federation of Labor in