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)

376 COMMUNISM IX MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY for February 8, 1941, reports that Albert Maltz was on the "Call" of the Inalienable Rights Conference to keep the Communist Party on the State ballot in New York. 21. The Civil Rights Congress is th<^ successor of the International Labor Defense, legal arm of the Commimist Party. The House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, in a report on September 2, 1947, described the Civil Rights Congress as "dedicated not to the broader issues of civil liberties, but specifically to the defense of individual Communists and the Communist Party." This congress is now defending such persons as Gerhart Eisler. agent of the Communist International, convicted of passport fraud, and Eugene Dennis, Communist Party general secretary convicted of contempt of Congress. A letterhead dated May 11, 1946, shows that Albert Maltz is a public sponsor of an organization entitled "Veterans Against Discrimination of Civil Rights Congress of New York," whicli is an acknowledged part of the Civil Rights Congress. 22. The Committee for Citizenship Rights was avowedly organized to oppose the threatened revocation of citizenship of William Schneiderman, Communist Party organizer, according to a letter of the organization dated January 10, 1942. It was cited as a Communist-front oi'ganization by the Special Committee on UnAmerican Activities on IMarch 29, 1944. The same letter referred to above listed Albert Maltz as an endorser of the Committee for Citizenship Rights. 23. The American Committee for Protection of the Foreign Born, which also specializes in defending Communists, was cited as a Communist front by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities on June 25, 1942, and March 29, 1944, and by Prof. John Dewey's Committee for Cultural Freedom in April 1940. An undated leaflet of the organization shows that Albert Maltz served on the board of directors of the American Committee for Protection of the Foreign Born. The organization defended such foreign-born Communists as Gerhart Eisler and Harry Bridges. 24. The National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners and the National Committee for People's Rights were cited as Communist fronts by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities on June 25, 1942. and March 29, 1944. Attorney General Biddle (in the Congressional Record, September 24, 1942, page 7686) stated that the "National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners is substantially equivalent to International Labor Defense, legal arm of the Communist Party" ; he also pointed out that the organization had defended such Communists as Earl Browder and Angelo Herndon. "In January, 1938," the Attorney General stated further, "its (National Committee for the Defense of Poliical Prison'r^;) name was changed to the National Committee for People's Rights." Albert Maltz was a member of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, according to a list submitted by Joseph S. Gelders. the organization's southern re])resentative, in testifving before the La Follette committee in Washington, D. C, on January 14, 1937. The National Committee for People's Rights listed Albert Maltz as one of the members of its national committee who was eligible for election to its executive committee, according to a mimeographed announcement put out by the organization in November 1941. 25. International Workers Order is a fraternal organization which Attorney General Biddle cited as "one of the strongest Communist organizations." (Congressional Record, September 24, 1942, page 7688). It was also cited as subversive by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities on January 3, 1940, and June 25, 1942, by Prof. John Dewey's Committee for Cultural Freedom in April, 1940, and by the California Committee on Un-American Activities in 1943. New Masses for August 27, 1940, page 21, listed Albert Maltz as one of the sponsors of a plays-for-children contest, sponsored by the junior section of the International Workers Order. 26. Albert Maltz has shown an active interest in the Soviet Union. The People's World, of March 11, 1943, carried a picture of Mr. Maltz and described him as a famous American writer who had sent the following telegram to the editors of National Defense, a literary magazine in Moscow : "Please use my literary royalties for the defense of the Soviet Union. Greetings. Albm-t IMaltz." The article reflects that royalties were due Maltz in Moscow for several works. 27. The Daily Worker for January 18, 1943, has an article entitled "Writers of the World Meet in the Page of a Soviet Magazine," which points out that Soviet readers are obtaining literature of American writers through a monthly magazine published by the State Literary Publishing House and that one of the American writers who have had articles published in that magazine is Albert Maltz. 28. The Daily Worker for April 28, 1938, page 4, reflects that Albert Maltz was a signer of a statement by the American Progressives Defending the Moscow