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)

408 COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY This organization has also been cited as a Communist front by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities on March 29, 1944. According to the Daily Worker of April 24, 1941, page 7, Mr. Ornitz was a leader of this organization. The American Peace Mobilization launclied wliat it called the American Peace Crusade. According to the New Masses of August 6, 1940, page 23, Mr. Ornitz was the head of a Speakers' School of the Hollywood Peace Forum, in connection with this crusade. Again the People's World of April 19, 1940, lists Mr. Ornitz as a speaker at the Hollywood Peace Forum. This meeting was sponsored by the Hollywood League for Democratic Action, under the title "Can Our Ballots Stop Bullets?" He is also listed by the People's World of July 3, 1940, as a speaker at the Hollywood Peace Forum with Herbert Biberman at the Embassy Auditorium. Both Biberman and Ornitz were leading members of the American Peace Mobilization. On June 8, 1940, Mr. Ornitz was a speaker of a so-called peace assembly, held on the steps of the Los Angeles City Hall, iinder the auspices of the American Peace Mobilization and the American Peace Crusade. Mr. Ornitz also spoke at the Hollywood Peace Forum, held at the First Unitarian Church at Los Angeles on May 31, 1940. He was also a speaker and a committee member of the American Peace Crusade meeting held at Los Angeles at the Embassy Auditorium, on June 21, 1940. He presented a radio address over station KFVD, on June 5, 1940, to supplement the campaign of the American Peace Mobilization. He spoke at the Hollywood Town Meeting under the auspices of the Hollywood Peace Forum on June 21, 1940. He also sent greetings to the meeting of the American Peace Mobilization held in Chicago, August 31, to September 2, 1940. Mr. Ornitz was a member of the resolutions committee at the Chicago meeting of the American Peace Mobilization. The People's World of January 23, 1940, page 5, and February 8, 1940, page 5, lists him as the speaker at various so-called peace meetings held in Hollywood and Los Angeles. Samuel Ornitz himself admitted he helped organize the American Peace Crusade, according to an article by Ornitz appearing in the New Masses for August 27, 1940, page 12. The antiwar stand of the American Peace Mobilization was drastically altered when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. The People's World dated July 7, 1941, page 3, quoted Tom CuUen, executive secretary of the American Peace Mobilization as saying: "The invasion of the Soviet Union has altered the character of the present war * * *." The newspaper also stated that the American Peace INIobilization would hold a mass meeting on July 14, 1941, at the Philharmonic Auditorium at which the new policy of the APM and a program to aid the defeat of Hitlerism would be presented. That Samuel Ornitz went along with the American Peace Mobilization in its sudden twist is evidenced by the same newspaper article which stated that Ornitz would be one of the speakers at the aforementioned mass meeting. 9. The International Labor Defense, American section of the International Red Aid, with headquarters in Moscow, has been cited by former Attorney General Biddle as the "legal arm of the Communist Party" (Congressional Record, September 24, 1942). It has been cited by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities as a Communist front on June 2.5, 1942, March 29, 1944. Its chief interest was the defense of Communist cases. According to a 1937 letterhead of the International Labor Defense, Mr. Ornitz was a member of its Advisory Board. He was also a member of its national committee. Equal Justice, official organ of the International Labor Defense, for May 1940, page 7, carries the gi-eetings of Samuel Ornitz. Closely associated with the International Labor Defense, and similarly Ornitz. Closely associated with the International Labor Defense, and similarly in its purposes, was the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners. This organization has been cited by Attorney General Biddle as "substantially equivalent to International Labor Defense, the legal arm of the Communist Party." It has defended such prominent Communists as Angelo Herndon, William Schneiderman, and Earl Browder (Congressional Record, September 24, 1942). It has been cited as a Communist front by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities on June 25, 1942, and INIarch 29, 1944. Mr. Ornitz is listed as a member of this Committee on its letterhead dated October 31, 1935. 10. The National Committee for People's Rights was a successor organization to the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners. According