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 379 28, 1935, in New York City. The record shows that Albert Miiltz was one of the founders of tlie League of American Writers. (a) Albert Maltz was a member of the executive committee of the first writers' congress wliich resulted in the formation of the League of American Writers in 1935, according to the California Committee on Un-American Activities (1945 report, p. 126). (b) The Bureau of Corporations, Department of State of New York, indicates that at the time of the formal incorporation of the League of American Writers on July 13, 1939, one of the original directors to act until tlie lirst annual meeting was Albert Maltz, whose address was given as 3905 Forty-fourth Street, Sunnyside, Long Island, N. Y. (c) Albert Maltz presented a reading of The Working Class Theatre at the tirst writers" congress in 1935, according to the Daily Worker for April 29, 1935, pages 1 and 2. {d) Albert Maltz was described as "among the most popular authors in the Soviet Union today" by the president of the League of American Writers at the opening of the Third American Writers Congress, according to volume 6, No. 1, of the league's organ. The Bulletin. Albert Maltz was one of the signers of the Call for the Third American Writers Congress which was held by the League of American Wirters on June 2, 3, and 4, 1939, according to the magazine. Direction, for May-June, lf'39, page 1. The official progi'am of the Third Writers Congress showed that Mr. Maltz also served as cochairman of the arrangements committee on the drama. (e) The Daily Worker for March 14, 1941, in an article headed "Writers' league plans summer conference," stated that the League of American Writers had completed plans for the tirst White Mountain Writers Conference, August 18 to September 2, at Jefferson, N. H., and that Albert Maltz would be included among the lecturers. The New Masses for April 8, 1941, page 26, carried the same information about Mi\ Maltz. (/) The People's World, oflicial west coast Communist newspaper, on June 13, 1941, announced that Albert Maltz had been chosen vice president of the League of 'American Writers at the fourth congress of the organization, held in New York, June G through 8, 1941. Mr. Maltz was also listed as a vice president of the organization in New Masses, June 17, 1941, page 9; Daily Worker, September 14, 1942, page 7 ; and People's World, September 23, 1942, page 5. The writers' congress in June of 1941 adopted a firm antiwar stand, according to the Daily Worker for June 9, 1941. This was still during the period of the Stalin-Hitler pact, and part of the Communist Party line. {g) The People's World for June 28, 1941, carried an article entitled, "Writers Hear Soviet War Against Nazis Lauded," which described the sixth semiannual meeting of the Hollywood branch of the League of American Writers. Albert Maltz and others made speeches lauding the Soviet Union. The Nazis had turned against Russia since the fourth writers' congress and the policies of the League of American Writers were switched accordingly. This is further borne out by the Daily Worker of July 24, 1941, which tells how the League of American Writers, of which Maltz is vice president, pledged "full aid to Britain and Soviet Union" and the Daily Worker of December 10, 1941, which tells how the league, in which Maltz is again listed as vice president, has offered the service of its members in the war against the Axis. (70 The People's World for. June 24, 1942, described a writers' workshop conference held by the League of American Writers. The article listed Albert Maltz as a sponsor of the conference and said resolutions adopted by the conference included support for the Communist Harry Bridges and a request for immediate opening of a second front in Europe. (/) The Daily AVorker for September 29, 1942, in an article entitled "Writers Defend Minority Rights," reports that the League of American Writers had made public a text of a telegram requesting a Democratic candidate for Governor in the State of New York to state his position on attacks by the American Legion on the electoral rights of the Communist Party. Albert Maltz' name is again carried as an ofticer of the league. (;■) Albert Maltz was listed as president of the west coast chapter of the League of American Writers in a pamphlet advertising courses for the fall term (1943) of the League of American Writers' School for Writers. Maltz wrote the foreword to the pamphlet. (fc) An undated bulletin of the League of American Writers listed Albert Maltz as a member of the national board of the organization.