DISMISSAL.
"UN-AMERICAN" EMPLOYEES. FILM CHIEF'S STATEMENT. ' I. Harry M. Warner, president of Warner Bros. Pictures, Incorporated, told a mass meeting of some 6000 employees and gueste assembled at the Burbank studio, Hollywood, that "members of bunds, Fascist, Nazi and other unAmerican organisations would be dis : missed from the company." The meeting, largest ever held by a sinffle studio, loudly cheered the statement, and applauded wildly Mr. Warner's further comment:— ; "If any person likes these reprehensible foreign doctrines so well, let him go back there. If he hasn't any money, tell him to come in and see me. I would rather use my money to send those persons back than to send 20 ambulances over there for Red Cross work, as I did to-day. "Friends,. I hope you will have a little patience, because I know, that you hear so much on the air, you read so much in the papers, that you wonder whether you want to hear any more. But we are facing a problem to-day that affects our very lives, our present and our future. And if it affected only the aves of ourselves I don't know whether I would be so serious and call you into one place to discuss the matter; I possibly would write you a letter. But I can say that it not only affects our present lives, but, more important, it affects the lives of our children and their children. "It affects everything we have ever worked for, everything we have ever had, and everything you and I have now. And there is nothing finer for the soul than to get together and see what there is we can do to help. We cannot be blinded to the dangers confronting us as the people in European countries were before the war. History has new proven that a new method of war has come into being. The danger also confronts us. The danger comes from within, as well as from without. "We are confronted with a highly grganised machine for spreading aub-
versive and alien doctrines. It saddens me to think that otherwise sane thinking people are following these leaders. It is happening right here in this studio. In the cars on the lot—in my own car I have found literature on that subject. Somebody knew who placed it in the cars and allowed them to do it. It is important to the Government that this be stopped. "I would rather be killed and see my children buried than live under conditions these people are trying to create. My father arid mother lived under such a system; that is the reason they left everything in Europe and we started at the bottom over here."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 222, 18 September 1940, Page 10
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450DISMISSAL. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 222, 18 September 1940, Page 10
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