Show Inside Labor Red Tactics in Hollywood By Victor Rici cl HOLL HOLLYWOOD Only Only a few executives in the inner sanctum sanctum sanctum sanc sanc- tum of one major movie studio and and one la labor labor la- la bor leader leader- k know 0 w t this h i II story Yet it rev reveals e a I as J f much much o of the flit Commie worm- worm A. A in inthe the the woodwork woodwork wood- wood w work o r k technique technique tech tech- t. t as will willE E the star star span spang span span- f. f g 1 led c d banner Mr Riesel ti h headlines e c a d 1 1 in n e s when Congress probes more deeply into the film HIm colony next month This story should also settle an inner feud now slicing the House un-American un activities committee several ways One committee member F ex-F B BI I agent Harold Velde Veldt wants to know whether the Comrades got subtle propaganda on the American and w v o 0 r rId 1 d w wid i d e screens The others want to know just how many millions of dollars the swimming pool proletariat sank into the Communist Communist Com Com- party at the rate of one- one fifth of their four-figured four weekly pay checks Why not get gel together and discover just how the comrades comrades comrades com com- rades are arc actually at work right now attempt attempting ng to exploit the movie makers as they would the electronic industry They never stood in bed They're operating operating operating oper oper- now Still persecuting others For example example- Fascinating Script Recently one of the great major studies bought a script exposing a union union and and was about ready to go into tion Fascinating script this It attacked a union whose people have helped boycott Russia and cripple its economy It was vivid vivid and and livid livid livid-in m blasting this Communist anti waterfront outfit making it appear that the union was run by racketeers and that the mobs were meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing in smoke filled suites with the employers So American business gets socked as well as American labor Every business outfit in the script was to be pictured as a bookie joint or payoff hide hideout According to the author union jobs were peddled through whisky stores and beauty salons salons sa sa- sa- sa lons Ions where you simply overpaid overpaid overpaid over over- paid so many bucks depending on what job you wanted Pro Communist Author author who's the thc theauthor theauthor author A Broadway playwright with a long pro Commie record of helping the apparatus in political political po po- activities and by setting up a job pork-barrel pork on the main stem No mean playwright playwright playwright play play- wright though Smash hit kind of fellow And his director was to be a aman aman aman man with an equally long record record record rec rec- ord of association with at least one Commie propaganda front whose specialty to my personal knowledge was to telephone Communists anti-Communists at all times of the night night so so long as it was between between between be be- tween 3 and 5 a and a.m.-and m. m and call them dirty names So when Roy Brewer that crusading and thoroughly so- so leader of Hollywoods Hollywood's Hollywood's Hollywoods Hollywoods Hollywood's Holly Holly- woods wood's studio workers learned of the script he called the studio studio studio stu stu- dio and patiently explained that it was aimed at just one A F L leader Pro Proposed Change The executives were were tive But they were stuck with witha a costly script They said they would change it in every way to remove objections and take the knife out of the union They would take out the waterfront scenes and put in mid city streets and playgrounds to tomake tomake tomake make it appear just an isolated isolated isolated iso iso- union and not an attack on all American laborThe labor The author and director were cre called in They wouldn't go along The picture was dumped The studio was willing to lose the dough rather than hurt American labor in general and swing the writing boys boy's type type- writer-ax writer against one union the Commies would love to cap cap- ture |