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)

378 COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY 37. Communists efforts in belialf of Spanish Communists continued after tlie civil war ended in 1939. Among tliese later organizations was the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade which was cited for its Communist character by tlie Special Committee on Un-American Activities on March 29, 1944, and by Prof. John Dewey's Committee for Cultural Freedom in April 1940. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade was composed largely of Americans lighting on tlie side of the Loyalists in Spain's civil war. Earl Browder, former general secretary of the Communist I'arty in the United States, testified before the Special Committee on Un-American Activities that most of the members of the brigade were Communists. The Daily Worker for Fel)ruary 21, 1940, listed Albert Maltz as one of tlie signers of a protest to the President, which was sponsored by the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. An advertisement sponsored by the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and calling for a break in American relations with Spain, appeared both in the Los Angeles Daily News for May 10, 1945. and the New York Times for March 3, 1945, page 8. The advertisement listed Albert Maltz as one of the sponsors. Albert Maltz is also listed as a sponsor on a letterhead of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, dated December 28, 1946 ; the letter referred to announces the opening sale of tickets for a performance to be held at the Belasco Theater in New York on January 19, 1947, to raise funds for Republican Spain. A press release issued by the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in June 1947 and requesting United Nations action on Franco's regime in Spain is signed by a number of sponsors, including Albert Maltz. 38. A similar organization is the American Committee for Spani.sh Freedom, which was avowedly organized in July 1944, to fight for legislation ending American diplomatic relations with Spain and supplying American military aid for a Spanish revolution. Among the well known Communists in the leadership of the organization was Allan Chase, secretary, who is a former Connnunist Party political candidate. The organization has worked closely with the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. A letterhead of the American Committee for Spanish Freedom, dated January 21, 1946, lists Albert Maltz as one of the organization's sponsors. In an undated letterhead of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Committee for Spanish Freedom, put out in 1945, the name of Albert Maltz again appears. 39. The Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, which has worked in cooperation with the Spanish-aid front organizations of the Communists, is engaged in providing transportation and support for international Communist agents such as Gerhart Eisler. who was recently convicted of passport fraud. The organization was cited as a Communist front by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities on March 29, 1944. It was also cited for contempt of Congress on April 16. 1946. and its leaders were convicted in a Federal court on June 27, 1947. The Daily Worker for August 12, 1943, sets forth the announcement from Dr. Edward A. Bar.sky, chairman of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, that a scroll of greeting's to Spanish refugees freed from concentration camp;^ in north Africa had been signed by 200 Americans. The list of names includes that of Albert Maltz. A letterhead, dated February 26, 1946, reflects that Albert Maltz served as a national sponsor of the Spanish Refugee Appeal which was organized by the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee to further its purpos-^ of n^d'ng international Communist agents. 40. The American Committee for Yugoslav Relief is close'y assoointed w^'i tl^e American Slav Congress, which was cited as a Communist front by the House Committee on Un-American Activities on June 12, 1947. The American Committee for Yugoslav Relief is headed by Zlatko Balokovic, who is vice president of the American-Slav Cong,ress. with headquarters in Moscow, and who lectured on the happiness of the Yugoslav people under communism after a trip to that country. An article in the Downtown Shopping News of Los Angeles for February 13. 1945. listed Albert Maltz as one of the sponsors of the Los Angeles American Committee for Yugoslav Relief. 41. The League of American Writers was an affiliate of the International Union of R'^volutionary Writers, with headquarters in Moscow, and the league was pledged to thp defense of the Soviet Union and the use of "art as an instrument of the class struggle." The league was cited as a Communist front by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities on January 3. 1940. June 25. 1942, and March 29, 1944. Attorney General Biddle said that "the overt activities of the League of American Writers in the last 2 years leave little doubt of its Communist control" (Congressional Record, September 24, 1942, p. 7686). The league was founded at a Congress of American Revolutionary Writers held April 26 through