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)

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COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY 381 46. Actors Laboratory was a training school for actors in Hollywood whose officers have lengthy records of Communist-front activity as evidenced in attached reports; such officers include Roman Bolnien, cliairman ; Larry Parks, treasurer; Morris Carnevsky, Jules Dassin, Edward Dmytryk, members of the executive board. Tlie organization coopei-ated with the Hollywood Writers Mobilization which has been described above. The issue of Variety for August K), 1044, carried an advei'tisement regarding the Actors Laboratory which was endorsed by 30 individuals, incUiding Albert Maltz. 47. Tlie independent Cirizens Conuuittee uf the Arts, Sciences, and Professions has been charged with being Connnunist dominated by Harold Ickes and other liberals who previously had supported it. It was cited as a Communist front by the n()us(> Connnittee on Un-American Activities on September 2, 1047. A leaflet put out by tlie organization in 1045 listed Albert Maltz as one of the sponsors of the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions. New Masses for Marcli 13, 104.j, states that the magazine. Independent, is an organ of the Independent Citizens Committee and that Albert Maltz is one of the contributing editors to the publication. 48. The Independent Citizens Connnittee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions split after Harold Ickes and other liberals condemned the organization as Comnumist-dominated. The pro-Communist section, after the split, formed the Progressive Citizens of America. The Progressive Citizens of America was cited as a Connnunist front by the House Committee on Un-American Activities in a report of June 12, 1947. Tlie Daily Worker for May 16, 1947. page 11, announced that the manuscript of Albert Maltz's novel. The Cross and tlie Arrow, would be auctioned off on May IS, 1947, at the Hotel Brevoort in New York City for the benefit of the literary division of the Progressive Citizens of America. The Daily Worker of July ;">, 1047, page 11, published a photo of Albert Maltz with the announcement that Mr. Maltz would participate in a conference to be held July 9 through 13, 1947, in the Beverly Hills Hotel, Hollywood, under the auspices of the Hollywood Arts. Sciences, and Professions Council of the I'rogressive Citizens of America. The Daily Worker for July 31, 1947, page 11, reprinted part of a speech which the newspaper said Albert Maltz had given "recently" in Los Angeles at a meeting under the auspices of the I'rogressive Citizens of America. 49. The American Committee of Jewish Writers, Artists, and Scientists, Inc., was a smaller, more .specialized version of the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions, which has been previously referred to. The American Committee of Jewish Writers, Artists, and Scientists, Inc., was affiliated with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee of the Soviet Union and it also published a magazine, New Currents, which had the approval of the Jewish Commission of the Communist Party. The I'eople's World for June 29, 1944, announced that a Hollywood chapter of the American Committee of Jewish Writers, Artists, and Scientists was being organized and that Albert Maltz was among the members of the organizing committee. Albert Maltz was listed as a member of the advisory board of New Currents, in the December 1944 issue of the publication. 50. The Jewish People's Fraternal Order is an affiliate of the International Workers' Order, a Communist-front organization previously referred to. The Jewish I'eople's Fraternal Order is headed by Albert E. Kahn, one of the leaders of the Communist Party in New York. The People's World for September 14, 194.", carried an advertis'^'ment announcing that a rally would be held on September IT), 194.5, at the Embassy Auditorium in Los Angeles under the auspices of the Jewish People's Fraternal Order, 257 South Spring Street, Los Angeles. Albei't Maltz was announced as one of the speakers. The People's World for September 5, 1947, page 5, listed Albert INIaltz as one of the participants in a program sponsored by the Jewish People's Fraternal Order to be held September 7. 1947. at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles. 51. The American Youth for Democracy is the official successor of the Young Comnnuiisf League. It has been the subject of a report by the House Committee on Un-Am'M-ican Activities which described its character in detail. Its "sinister purposes" have been denounced by the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (Congressional Record, Mar. 24, 1947, p. A1298). The P(>ople's World, for Deceml)er 1, 1944, reflects that Albert Maltz is a sponsor of the American Youtli for Democracy. A lettei of the organization announcing a. meeting for October 21, 1945, in Los Angeles shows that Alltert Maltz was one of the sponsors of the meeting. A leaflet announcing a dinner to be held under the auspices of the American Youth for Democracy on December 16, 1945, at the Ambassador 67083 — 47 2.5