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.o oe WOTIAWU UNH OW @ INU ww Nr OO mw ee el hh edie 1 the membership corpora- tion book Bureau orporations, State of New York, imniicates that the League of American Writers Incorporated was incorporeted July 26, 199 in New York City, LILLIAN HELIMAN was one of the persons who was to act as a director of this organisation until ite first amual meeting. According to the September 7, 1939 issue of the Daily Worker, LILLIAN HELIMAN was one if the vice=presidents of the league of American Writers, This organization had just recently held a two-weeks’ session for student writers at the Highlander Folk School, Woreagle, Tennessee, on August 26, 19 ( ED +20 identity is known to the Bureau, reported that LILLIAN HELIMAN is a member of the SExiled Writers Committee" of the League of American Writers, a Conmunist front organization, Other members named were CLIFFORD ODETS, DOROTHY PARKER, DONALD OGDEN STEWART, and RICHARD WRIGHT. In this capacity, Miss HELLMAN appealed for funds to aid anti~-Wazi writers in Frances The letterhead of the League of Ame rican Writers 382. ‘Fourth Avenue, New York City, dated 1940 and maintained in the New York Field Office, lists LILLIAN HELIMAN as one of the National Board members of that organization, The Deily Worker for April 5, 194) carries an article stating that LILLIAN HELLMAN is one of aporoximately 100 initial signers: to the ®Call of the Fourth Congress of thea league of American Writers" to be held in New York City June 6 to & 1941. Problems to be considered by the Conference included "Keep America out of War®, “Aid to anti~rascist Friters seeking aid in the United States" and to "Protest Attacks on Trade Unions and Political Minorities", This information is aleo reflected in a leaflet of this organization which was furnished to the Bureau, The June 5, 1941 issue of the New York World Telegram stated that the American Writers Congress was part of the Communist Cultural Front, which had followed the political deviations of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party since its organisation six years previouslye d According to Foor ee ne identity is know to the Bureau, the Fourth American Writers Cong which met at the Hote] Commdore, New York City, June 6 to 8, 1941, awarded third prise in dram to LILLIAN HELIMAN for "Watch on the Rhine*, The first prige went te MARC BLITZSTEIN for *No for an Answer® and the second prigs to RICHARD WRIGHT for “Native Son" The informant stated further that the Congress was definitely a Comminist gatherings wee —‘CONFIZEN VL