CITED FOR CONTEMPT
WITNESSES IN INQUIRY
UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES HEARING
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24,
The House of Representatives voted to-day that the 10 Hollywood witnesses who declined last month to tell the un-American Activities Committee whether they were members of the Communist Party should be cited for contempt, and that their names be referred to the United States attorney for prosecution. Conviction on the contempt charge carries a maximum penalty of one year’s imprisonment and a 1000-dollar fine. In the debate before the vote the chairman of the un-American Activities Committee, Mr J. Parnell Thomas, said the committee’s work in driving the Communists out of the film industry was only just beginning. He said the witnesses’ claims that the committee was acting unconstitutionally in asking them questions about the Communist Party were ridiculous. The reason the witnesses refused to answer the question was that they were Communists.
Those cited were Robert Adrian Scott, Robert Howard Lawson, Edward Dmytryk. Lester Cole, Ring Lardner, jun., Alvah Jessie, Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Dalton Trumbo, and Samuel Ornitz. Dymtryk is a director, Biberman a director-producer, Scott a writer and producer, and the remainder scenario writers.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26628, 26 November 1947, Page 5
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189CITED FOR CONTEMPT Otago Daily Times, Issue 26628, 26 November 1947, Page 5
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