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470 COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
Mr. Stripling. I would like you to answer again for the committee how long you have been associated with RKO-Keiths.
Mr. SciiARY. I have been associated with them as an executive sJJice January 1, 1947. Before that time I was on kind of a lend-lease arrangement between David Selznick and RKO. We had a profitsharing agreement on some films and I was loaned out by Mr. Selznick toRKO.
Mr. Stripling. Mr. Schary , are you acquainted with Hanns Eisler ?
Mr. Schary. I know him.
Mr. Stripling. Did you ever employ Hanns Eisler ?
Mr. Schary. No. He was employed at the studio shortly after I got there. His employment was not made by me.
Mr. Stripling. Could you tell the committee who did employ Hanns Eisler?
Mr. Schary. You want to know the actual chain of events about that?
Mr. Stripling. That is right.
Mr. Schary. He is employed — technically a man assigned to music is employed by two people, one of them a Mr. Dakalienokoff. He is in charge of music. He arranges for the employment of musicians assigned to score films, and a Mr. Leon Goldberg, who is the comptroller of the studio.
Mr. Stripling. Have you ever heard that Hanns Eisler was a Communist ?
Mr. Schary. I did not hear it until the recent investigations.
Mr. Stripling. Mr. Eisler — this committee held liearings on Hanns Eisler for 3 days, and I think the committee submitted volinuinous evidence showing that Mr. -Eisler had been engaged in Communist activities for many years; that he was the head of the International Music Bureau with headquarters in the Soviet Union; that he had engaged in various cultural or musical activities in the United States which had as their purpose the undermining of our system of gov>;rnment.
I believe it was brought out at the hearing that Mr. Eisler received $26,000 for various scores whicli he had written for RKO-Keiths.
Now, as an executive of RKO-Keiths, what is the policy of your company with regard to the employment of people who are notoriously international Communists ?
Mr. Schary. That policy, I imagine, will have to be determined by tlie president, by the board, and by myself. I can tell you personally what I feel. Up until the time it is proved that a Communist is a man dedicated to the overthrow of the Government by force or violence, or by any illegal methods, I cannot make any determination of his employment on any otlier basis except whether he is qualified best to do the job I want him to do.
Mr. Stripling. If Mv. Eisler, himself, stated in writing that he was working for the overthrow of this Government by force and violence, would that be sufficient evidence for you?
Mr. Schary. That would be ; yes, sir.
Mr. Stripling. I will give you a copy of the hearings with the evidence in them
Mr. Schary. Yes, sir.
Mr. Stripling. And ask that you read them.
Mr. Schary. Yes, sir.