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 377 Trials, which was the usual name affixed to a series of trials then being held in the Soviet Union for numerous opponents of Dictator Stalin. It has been establislicd tliiit these trials liad for their aim the jjurging of all political enemies of Joseph Stalin. 29. Soviet Russia Today was the official monthly publication of the Friends of the Soviet Union, a predecessor of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. The magazine was cited as a Communist front by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities on June 25, 1942, and March 29, 1944. The issue of Soviet Russia Today for September 1941, page 30, carried the name of Albert Maltz as author of a statement in support of the Soviet Union. The Daily Worker for September 3, 1941, in an article entitled, "Soviet Victory Vital to Preserve Cultural Heritage, Basic Economic Values," i-eported that Albert Maltz was one of a number of persons whose statements expressing their solidarity with the Soviet Union would be published in the magazine, Soviet Russia Today. 30. The National Council of American-Soviet Friendship was cited as a Communist front by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities on March 29, 1944. The People's World for October 23, 1943, page 3, stated that Albert Maltz was a member of the Hollywood Motion Picture Committee of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. 31. The American Russian Institute, which was founded in 1926 as an alleged clearing house for "factual" information on the Soviet Union, was cited as a Communist front by the House Committee on Un-American Activities in a report of June 12, 1947. A program put out by the American Russian Institute announces a premier showing of Turning Point, a Soviet film, on January 3, 1947, at the Sunset Theater in Hollywood and also announces that Albert Maltz would take part in a panel discussion following the film showing. 32. Many Communist front organizations which supported Soviet foreign policy have been backed by Albert 'Maltz. The American League Against War and Fascism was active in support of Soviet foreign policy against the democracies between 1932 and 1937. It has been cited by Attorney General Biddle as an organization seeking "to create public sentiment on behalf of a foreign policy adapted to the interests of the Soviet Union." (Congressional Rword, September 24, 1942.) The Special Committee on Un-American Activities cited this organization as subversive on January 3, 1940, and March 29, 1944. The League was dedicated to an openly treasonous program. Albei't Maltz has contributed to Fight, a publication put out by the executive committee of the American League Against War and Fascism, according to an issue of Fight for November, 1933, pages 8 and 9. 33. After the Stalin-Hitler pact was signed in 1939, the Communists established the American Peace Mobilization, which opposed lend lea.se, aid to Britain, the defense program, and picketed the White House. It also supported a number of strikes in defense industries. The organization was cited as a Communist front by Attorney General Biddle, by the Special Connnittee on Un-American Activities and by the California Committee on Un-American Activities. An official program listed Albert Maltz as a sponsor of a meeting held by the American Peace Mobilization in New York City on April 5 and (i, 1941. 34. Among the Communist fronts that sprang up when the Soviet Union and the United States were allies in a war against fascism was the Artists' Front to Win the War. which made its debut at a mass meeting at Carnegie Hall in New York City on October 16, 1942. The organization was cited as a Communist front by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities on March 29, 1944. The official program of the Artists' Front to AVin the War meeting at Carnegie Hall listed Albert Maltz as one of the spon-sors. The meeting supported the then current Comnnniist line calling for a second front. 35. Thp Win the Peace Conference was held in Washington. D. C, from April 5 to 7. 1946. to attack American foreign policy. It was repudiated by a number of noted sponsors and was cited as a Communist front by the House Committee on Un-American Activities on June 12, 1947, and September 2, 1947. The conference resulted in the formation of an organization called the National Committee to Win the Peace. Alliert Maltz was a sponsor of the Win the Peace Conference, according to an article in the Baltimore Sunday Sun for March 31, 1946. Thus, Mr. Maltz has thus publicly avowed his allegiance to the line of the Communist Party during four distinctly divergent periods. 36. At the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International, held in Moscow in 1935, George Dimitroff, general secretary, called upon all affiliated Communist Parties to make the greatest efforts in behalf of the campaign of the Spani.sh Communists who wei'e active in Spain's civil war. Among the projects organized by the American Conmiunists in response to this request was the Theater Committee for Defense of the Spanish Republic.