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LA 100-33973 i? "the job, we can all be hopeful that they come out #ictorious on this one...we will really have won a victory... ; "How many people will remember what that it was. back in 1947 that ten top, Oscar winning writers were dragged “into court? It was T, NORMAN THOMAS who badgered them — from one question after anether,. investigating committeés are forever investigating something or somebody and we've” more than had our share...There was the Lusk Committee, the Dies Committee, Tenney and more recently Burns here in California... But 1, NORMAN THOMAS was the WALTER of those ~ days..always looking for a eommunist...late came Mc Carthyism to throw fear into the air... Me Carthy mast have veen quite gratified to see THOMAS accomplish the imprisemment of ten top Hollywood writers...it probably gave him some new Acene. _ for his witch-hunfing. ; "Tt was back in 1947 that the producers and directors got their heads together, with some outside help, I might add, and decided that no one with any comminist ties or fronts could affiliate with the movie industry and this pertained _eypesially to the writers..the final blow case when in: _ April, ‘1950, TRUMAN announced that all security risks ~should _ be cheeked. out and then the House Un-Americans took Over... ow "since 1947 the air has been filled with fear and terror...filed with uneertainty as to how brilliant men could make a living to feed and elotne their families..they are not able to get work in their own professional field. .writing _ award-winning seripts, but have had to resort to Jobs in gas stations, restaurants, digging ditches and some have even had to resort to the lowest form..becoming salesmen. "There is so wash to be gained for all of the good Americans who have been deprived of their livelinoed, — '4f the suit against the studios is successful. ;