Un-American ‘spy’ thriller proves to be

By GLADYS CARTER

NEW YORK—The 2-week congressional probe of communism in Hollywood, advertised by the House committee
on un-American activities as bigger and better than any thriller ever produced by the movie capital, closed October 30,

after failing completely to arouse the desired nationwide hysteria.
Though the committee did succeed in terrorizing certain producers—notably Jack L. Warner of Warner Bros., who
arrived with a statement of high
principles against the investiga-
tign and ended up by agreeing he
should start making anti-Commun-
ist films, the hearings for the
most part acted as a boomerang,

Among the important big busi
ness figures who were forced by
the committee’s wild charges to
challenge the constitutionality of
the hearings were Eric Johnston,
former president of the U.S. Cham-
ber of Commerce and now head
of the Motion Picture Producers’
Association, and Paul V. McNutt,
who has served the U.S. govern-
ment in several high posts and is
now attorney for the producers.

Both these’ men, speaking for
the producers, were unable to ac-
cept the committee’s charge that
a long list of films produced im
Hollywood were Communist propa-
ganda. Among the ‘“Communisi-
influenced” movies listed were
many of the successful win-the-
war pictures.

Even such generally reactionary
newspapers as the New York
Times, the Detroit Free Press and
the New York Herald Tribune—
acknowledging fear that the com-
mittee’s next target might be the
press — editorially attacked the :
hearings as an infringement of ,
constitutional liberties. :

On the other hand, the more
widely sold Hearst and Scripps-

US spurs nazi press

BERLIN—German newspapers in
the U.S. zone of occupation, many
of which have been infiltrated by
former Nazi supporters, have been
given the green light to launch

an all-out propaganda attack
against the Soviet Union, American
officials have revealed. The dis~
closure coincided with an an-
nouncement by American Military
Governor General Lucius D. Clay
that all AMG officers are being
instructed to make strong state-

ments against communism,
U.S. officials questioned at
Frankfurt admitted they are dis-
carding a key paragraph in the
4-power agreement on how Ger-
a! many will be governed. The dis-
eran carded paragraph prohibited Ger-
pet man newspapers from publishing
iE anything “to disrupt unity among
the Allies or seeking to evoke the
distrust and hostility of the Ger-
man people against any occupyirg

power.” :

Profits in cholera

CAIRO—A widespread cholera
epidemic has caused mass unem-
ployment and a daily death toll
of 150 people in half of Egypt's
territory. With traffic cut off be-
tween infected areas, about 70

4 percent of Egypt’s workers and = - moe
most of the peasants are unable x oward newspapers play up
to work and Sobscmentiy unable Star-studded brigade : ‘ the hearings and the accompany- ‘|
to eat. ~ Listening to ‘evidence’ at hearings of Un-American activities committee are leaders of the ing “Communist menace” for
Vaccine is in short supply and/ jyo)ywood Committee for the First Amendment, formed by 500 actors, writers, producers, directors, all they were worth. oe
so far the bulk has been allotted| oq press agents to battle for free speech and expression. In second row, left to’ right, are: Danny Perhaps the most significant as- -
to inoculating the rich, whose] ave, Evelyn Keyes, June Havoc, Humphrey Bogart and his wife, Lauren Bacall. pect of the boomerang was the |
quarters have not been affected. statement issued during the hear
Large quantities of vaccine rush- : ings by the President's Committee |
ed from the U.S., England and the on Civil Rights, which included

: €
Soviet Union have disappeared on J t fg Fre hY S$ | ii personalities ranging from Prest+ ©
j the black market and the govern- qd

dent Charles E. Wilson of the Gen-
ment has done nothing to prevent

it. Secretary - Treasurer

Bubonic plague danger Fastern Europe, no iron curtain’ Carey.

Ss Po sibility of bubonic R
EATTLE— By PHYLLIS ROSNE

liberties be extended rather than
restricted, calling for abolition
plague in Central. Washington
was warned of in the latest issue ; i eens ape
LONDON—The countries of eastern Europe, after finding that their big industrialists
tion of the Washington state de-| 244 landowners played ball with fascism during the war, “have settled the issue of power

of the poll tax, which bars mil-
lions of whites and Negroes alike
of Health Commentator, publica-
Se ee Se OT between the working class and the propertied class in favor of the former,” Labor Member

eral Electric Co., to right-wing CIO -
James B, |

from voting in the ‘south, and
for other steps to end discrim-
ination based on race, color,
creed or national origin.

The un-American Activities com-

mice found recently in the area
Ellensburg,

bounded roughly by
Vantage and Yakima.

The rodents carry sylvatic plague,
which when passed to humans be-
comes the deadly scourge of bu-

bonic plague.

eight M.P.’s who recently visited
Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia
and the Soviet Union.

Zilliacus, who stressed that the
eight visitors were unanimous in

of Parliament Konni Zilliacus told Allied Labor News in summing up the impressions of

a measure of cooperative industry
and trade outside state control.
“In Czechoslovakia and Pol-
and,” Zilliacus declared, “there
is more political and civil liberty

The peoples show great friend-
liness towards the American and
British peoples, Zilliacus said, em-
phasizing, however, the “serious
and growing disquiet at what is
regarded as the agressive charac-

mittee also flopped miserably in
its attempt to use top box office
stars like Adolphe Menjou to back
its witch-hunt. Immediately, @
committee of top movie stars in-
cluding Humphrey Bogart, John
Garfield, Paul Henreid and scores

Res their conclusions, explained that
idents of the affected Aree this does not mean the eastern

were urged to “start a hard-hit-/ 5, : h =
pean: countries have com

papccntees eee rs ci pletely socialist. enconomies. In
ne caesar a on He to.” Poland and’ Czechoslovakia they
goat geal ins emis 0 |found a wide sector of private

enterprise, including the whole
e SJ
Cubans Win strike

peasant population who hold the
land under private ownership. In

a. HAVANA—Five hundred Cuban] these countries, as° well as in
aaa unionists, jailed for participating in| yygoslavia and even the Soviet
i a protest against government: selz- Union, Zilliacus said, there is also

and freedom of speech than is
ae case AGEs at present. |ter of American policy.
We found no purge of the civil All over eastern Europe,
service. going on in any of the Zilliacus added, “Henry. Wallace
countries.” - is pemen, - a (Shee aie en
: 2 : a Yer and sym 0:
Pain not eee a fy Hin other America which the people
theres at Sino Cockatoo ne Ue
rege: eis ie Union. and, may I add, Labor-
that the | people of castor | ritain, hope. will reappear on

the stage of world affairs before
ing enthusiasm, confidence and | tne tragi-comedy of the Bullitts,
assurance.”

the Byrnes, the Dulles and the
Deweys and other warmongers
of Mars and Mammon. bring
suffering humanity again on the
edge of war.”

of others, banded together as 4
committee to protect the U.S. con-
stitution. They sent a star-studded
brigade to New York and Wash-
ington to fight the hearings.

To make sure that the last day’é
hearings would produce more page
one headlines the witch-hunting
committee October 30, produced
a phony atom spy scare even more
colossal than the one staged re
cently in Canada. The significance
of this spy scare was indicated |
by the fact that the committee ad |
journed immediately after its an- ©
nouncement.

—VILHJALMUR

STEFANSSON

MONDAY, NOV. 17, 8 p.m.
EXHIBITION GARDENS

“New Frontiers for Peace”

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Tickets at Kelly’s on Seymour

Reserved, $1 — Unreserved, 75c

ure of the Cuban Confederation
: of Labor (CTC), won their release 3 :
\ after conducting a 44-hour hunger a a
Samed its ows appointees to. re communists to remain
named its own appointees to re- : a8.
place elected union leaders, it was} ; :
unable to prevent a mass-demon-

ie stration by thousands: of. workers | : * : : om
My sain, uate 3c UtsIde Europe Oureau :
cS jailed unionists and to hail elected
a G al Secre Lazaro . roe ‘ : :
pene. = = "|. NEW YORK—The Communist Party of the United
Cuban unionists gained new| States supports but has decided to remain outside the Infor-
strength when they learned that i é blished by Communist parties of nine Eu-
two CIO affiliates, the United Of- a peat esta ed by a eee
fice and Professional Workers and 'TOpean Nations. : :
a the International Fur and Leather| William’ Z. ‘Foster, chairman o:
“ Workers Union, had~ sent sharp, the. ‘American. Communist Party,

ta b: -and|and Eugene Dennis, general secre- Cie
oe en aie e Aoe seat eeninet tory, in a statement endorsing the ment jn our country,” it continued,

ae e tedly -seize upon

ae “ltnformation :.Bureau,. said the| Would undoubtedly

[ ae a is attempted dizsolu rty’s national board concluded such action by the American Com-
: nent : it would be unwise to affiliate munist’ Party as a pretext for new

: : : : : “noliti situa- provocations: and repressions

4 Mala a hits back He Che present, SOnNCN : against the Communists and all
aa ve ado nore nee anal , THe Teformation Bureau was| taper Sit petaastver nevenant”
SIN Oteers. described in the statement as an|" he party, the statement said,
will continue to “promote the in-
ternational solidarity of labor and

forces now whipping ‘up anti-Com-
munist hysteria and war incite-

elsewhere in Malaya staged a 1- encouraging step to all those who
Oy if wi arte uel a defend “national freedom and the

ay aie mage ene. cause of peace.” f see
the Federation of Malaya’ and| ~ ,, Gunwiderine «the all anti-fascists and anti-imperial

question of] ists” and to advance the coopera-
ora aig Se ed whether or not to seek affiliation|tion of “peace-loving peoples and

Cham to the new Information Bureau,| especially the friendship of the
cane’ peel coca ‘the national board of the Com-| American and Soviet peoples .. .”
jority of Malaya’s population): to munist Party has concluded that} “ye Communists have enlisted
the Malayan Communist _ party. the present political situation in|for the duration,” the statement
Even British officials admitted not| the United States is such that the| said, “in this struggle to’ check
a lick of work was done that day Communist Party should not af-|and defeat Wall Street’s drive to-
in factories, on docks, ir shops or| filiate,” the statement said. ward world domination, fascism
public transport. “The reactionary and pro-fascist and war.” .. : 3

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