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ducer. who was a fellow Commu was addressed by Sen. Pepper, Dmytryk testified. Pepper was a guest of Robinson and gave the CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE Thursday, April 26.19S1 Parti Page 9 nist with me, and I produced a picture called 4 Our DIRECTOR TELLS OF COMMUNISM first script writer, John Wexley, a CommunistA loaded up the play detenaants narmiess taiK, Dmytryk testified. Robinson was cause I know the Communist party is a.

treasonable organization." Names Fellow Beds The witness named the following persons he knew as fellow members of the Communist Adrian Scott, producer; Direc-torsNFrank Tuttle, Herbert Biber man, Jack Berry, Bernard Vor-haus, Jules Dassin, and Michael not in town at the time, he said, with long propaganda speeches which followed -the Communist communist thinking-When the recruit recoils at such things as the soviet purges, the Stalin-Hitler pact, or the invasion of Finland, he is told that evil means are sometimes necessary to gain good objectives." Dmytryk said he was drawn into communist movements thru his work as a lecturer in the Peoples Educational center, Los Angeles school for screen writers. He also joined the Hollywood Writers Congress and Hollywood Writers and was not regarded by the Com' munist party as a friend. Encouraged by Willkie IN HOLLYWOOD Mobilization, organizations ostensibly created in behalf of the war effort He discovered these groups were communist controled, he saioV but stayed on because he thought they were doing good work. Abraham L. Polonsky, writer, author, and director, preceded Dmytryk in the witness chair and refused to answer most questions.

party line. I objected, not to the propaganda, but to the fact that it slowed down a suspense melodrama. We cot another writer. Gordon; Screen Writers John The defiant witnesses also were encouraged, Dmytryk said, by the speeches of the late Wendell Willkie, hired as special counsel by John Paxton, a non-Communist, to Howard Lawson, Lester Cole, Gor Changes His Mind after don Kahn, John Wexley, Richard write another script. Called Before Rails Collins who has admitted his the motion picture industry.

Will' party membership at the hear Scott and I were summoned to a Communist party meeting at kie and other industry spokesmen ings, Paul Trivers, Albert Majtz, Term in Jail BY WILLARD EDWARDS Chlct Tribane Press Snricel charged the committee was vto Alvah Bessie, Arnold Manoff, Mi which we were attacked by Wexley. Richard Collins. Paul Trivers. lating "civil rights," he said and chael Uris, Leonardo Bercovici, a writer now working for Francis Faragoh and his wife; this stimulated him and other 'Witnesses to continue in their stand, Washington, April 25 A tale of communism in Hollywood was George Corey and his wife; Henry Blankfort, George Pepper, Sam given to congress today by. Ed While in jajl, Dmytryk said, the war in Korea and the previous Moore, and Maurice Clark.

Lists Main Objectives uarneid, the actor-producer, and Lawson. They demanded that we change the picture back to its party line. Albert Maltz, a Communist, defended us and later wrote an article pleading for freedom of thought in the Communist ward Dmytryk, a top mbtion picture director, who was released revelations of the Alger Hiss, Ju The Communist party in Holly dith Coplon, Klaus Fuchs, and CALL VAbash 2-8753 Day Night -Sunday 24 HOUR SERVICE Suburbs with 45 mila radius call ealltet from jail last Nov. 15 after serving a AVa month sentence for atomic spy trials made him realize HEW 1951 TRIPLE-TRACK wood had three main objectives," Dmytryk said. "To get money from a wealthy community; to ob that "the Communist party was defying a 1947 probe of subversive influences in the film colony.

party, for which he was disciplined. He repudiated the article under tain the prestige of persons with using American citizens to commit treason." He said he made up his mind to tell his complete story as pressure. Dmytryk confessed he had been a Communist party member and "We refused to make changes 'II' XVfflZslkCZh. iu, o.sro.M! V3xt. soon as the opportunity offered, famous names, and, most important of all, to infiltrate and control the guilds and unions in order to put pressure on executives and and Lawson later told us that if named six other directors as fellow Communists.

He identified "I joined the Communist party "Now, this is our cooking cla for -young bride! in the spring of 'he test an additional score of Hollywood we couldn't accept party discipline we'd better gut out of the party." Dmytryk said high salaried persons in the movie industry were fied. I remained active until late figures as active party members, 11 of them not previously named. in 1945. But I continued to coop control the content of the movies for propaganda purposes. The last was a long range program and never succeeded.

hearing room listened in fascinated silence to his recital of how high erate with communist front, or His surprise testimony, com- susceptible to Marxism because All-Weldid, Self-Storing Combination Aluminum STonr.i mows with Screens Aluminum Combination Storm Doors. $58.50 Pay as Low as $5.00 a Month 30 MONTHS TO PAY The Country's Fastest-Selling Most Practical Storm Windows pletely reversing his previous salaried film stars are lured into "Many members with big sala ganizations until 1947. After being cited for contempt, I could not cry 'uncle because it would be the communist conspiracy. Dmytryk also named Atty. Ben many ieit tney owed their good fortune to "the and net to talent or hard work.

This feeling promotes a feeling of guilt, he said, which resulted in the loinii? ries contributed a percentage of their income to the party and a great deal of money was raised Margolis of Los Angeles, counsel for witnesses who refused to testify as a Communist. His testimony thru parties, dinners, and affairs -of numerous do good organiza mm -mm sponsored by communist fronts. brought in the name of former tions. "Hollywood 10" cited for contempt of congress for refusing to answer whether they were Communists at the committee's 1947 investigation. His American film career ended with that incident, he said, altho he directed two pictures in England which earned him European laurels.

He has been unemployed since completing his jail sentence. Tells Secret Meetings The defiance, of the committee in 1947, he- testified, was engineered by Communists as a propaganda stunt. He told of secret meetings at the Shoreham hotel Communists control organiza Sen, Pepper Fla.J as a thought I was earful of going to jail. Dictated by Conscience "While in jail, I made a deposition. There have been rumors that I got the in jail and also was offered $5,000 a week by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer if I would confess.

There was nothing of th tions formed in Hollywood because Tells of Fly Traps' "The Communist Dartv has they are tireless workers. For uJ.W.t.U"ai.UiYaV'Wr1fVkl plenty of clever fly traps for these speaker at a strategy meeting of the 10 Hollywood figures ordered to jail for contempt. He did not name Pepper as a Communist, every Communist insuch an organization, there may be 100 non- persons," ne said. Communist front organizations Derform their Communists, but the Communist 60S The 42 year old a man sort. This testimony has been dic directs the program.

work under the" guise of patriotic endeavor. Once a person is enlisted, he is carefully guided into EauwtW iwsw) Communists coirtroled the with a machine gun delivery, had had a typical Hollywood career. tated by my conscience." Dmytryk was asked what he thought about the witnesses who refused to testify on the ground they might incriminate them Born In Canada Born in Canada, he went to Los Screen Writers' guild and the conference of Studio unions which staged a two year strike in 1945-1947. The program was to defeat Angeles as a boy and obtained a dDlSdDRI CSoj'ts selves. the existing unions which were "The assumption I make, and independent and bring them into Polonsky left! and Dmyiryk stand, climaxed hearings by the house committee on un-American activities which announced a temporary recess.

a Week Director Dmytryk, a $2,500 a week direc- tor at the peak of his career, was the most literate of five witnesses who confessed their communist careers at the hearings. A packed here which were addressed by Lee Pressman, then chief counsel of the CIO, who later his Communist party membership, and Harry Bridges, the west coast union leader, a noted Communist. The speakers urged defiance of the house committee. Another strategy meeting took place in 1949 at the home of Edward G. Robinson, the actor, -and job at the age of 15 as a $6 a week messenger in the Paramount studios.

Twenty years later, he was the $125,000 a year director of such motion picture successes as the CIO, which was considered the ideal instrument for free move I believe everyone makes, is that such persons are Communists," he know I had been a ment of Communists. Since then, Communist when I refused to Cross Fire," "Hitler's Chil the CIO has purged itself of com Salesroom and Factory: 2800 N. Pulaski (Crawford Ave.) at Diversey Open Every Day 9 to 5:30 and Monday and Thursday Nights Until 9:30 Loop Salesroom: 35 Madison at Wabash Open Daily 9:15 to 5:45 Monday, 11 to 8:30 P.M. dren," and Cornered." munist elements. testify in 1947.

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