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796 ‘ UN-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES UN-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA ACTI Miss Hurrman. If I may be permitted, the press has : Siew, what I am talking about is the inefficienc regarding my being investigator Tor General Johnson in 194 MB) i. this connection I will read vou a comment would like to clarify that. General Johnson was not with the It is a article written by Leonard—Lyon Theater Project under the W. P. A., as Administrator, in 1% 4 Den, Tt is as follows: during the time Genera] Johnson_was at 116 Kighth Avenue sf . ministrator of the W. P. A., the Drama Division, at that tim @. ¥NTEBPRISE under him. I was under him, but not as an investigator for Johnson's office. However, there had been some activities one ‘ Project over near my home, and I had taken nS matter to ¢ r 3 Johnson in pe work t rough General Johnson as an ime jy, Bucl That it was impossible te make a living at it : . . ’ * So. ver briefly, General Pe wan very frank in writing bis thea trica obituary: tor, helping with that investigation. 3 y Ys : theeugh. Within the next 10 days, however, the son asked me to see ahout something, but while I was not an a will ampeunce that James Ullman has accent tor for him on that work. Later on, when Mr. Ritter aduiuistrative positions in the Federal Theater. the office, I was on the pay roll of the New District Theater Mii gee Tyomas. What is the date of that? and did investigational work. I remained there until Mr. E Mies Hurrsan. Ido not have the date of th Nunn. who is listed as an active Communist, I believe, came in inted in 1937. I should say that it wa. and then J was no longer on the pay roll. . ; ber. : J. wondered if I could not bring that statement in to cl Now, since experience was not required as a angle. . at their activities. Early in the history of t Mr. THomas. Allright; go ahead. om, ; formed the group known as the Supervi Miss Horrman. Siephan Karnot, ai active Communist, wore’ Council from the beginning workec wife were also on the project’ at the time. He was einployed CP. C. and the Workers Alliance, but de retary to Rose Fisher, and they held Communist meetings b ion with them. The C. P. C. has alway home. I Wwmsinvited to attend Co nist meetings in ther with ability or authority to hire or fire Morris Watson was a newspare¥ editor, who was dismissed Weg. PC. that organization being used exclus' Associated Press for union activities. This was the Morr bow can belong to it. Consequently, the super who was in the test case in the Suppaine Soyck. fects of the ny to hire and fire, were not supposed ta b Act. Incidentally, he recerv rom the _ubtehe Aout 2 with them. The first contact with them + back pay. Fwo years later he came back to the project a tial control was set up. Mr. Barber e: " jncrease of salary. ; { Beek had been using the stationery of Bormard Freviid-was an insurance salesman. . uatration, Ido not know just exactly wha Mr. Tromas. He is one of the supervisors of the Theater things were being done, and letters wer Miss Horrman. Yes, sir. Edward Goodman was an not befitting the dignity of the Works Prog ater direcior, whose ghief claim to fame was as-the founde@le, canted the jail opened, pesorted, and ashington Square Players Guild. _ ; its, or to the people workimg in the J Woack Rennick was a clerk in his pincle's delicatessen This was the first falle in Mr. Ritter’s office, “a h Brogan was a rug salesman at Bloamingdale’s. wurvev. T was at it for 2 days. Outside o Jose PN redial and is m bines‘singer. “Madelyn O’Shes wa many things that should not have heen g in the Workers Laboratory Theater, later known as the mpervisors. Myr. Barber called me the ne Laboratory Theater. The only thing I know about the Mo with the exception of John Houseman, the p Laboratory Theater is the mention that was made of it m directed to them if they belonged to the Masses. oe oo ae a wt maki be sent to their homes. They were using Halstead Wells was employed as instructor at fale tough it was their own personal property. He directed plays for the project. He was an instructor a the condition right in the Supervisors ¢ would direct plays for the project, and would go back. . in the beginning outlined a policy for t Phillip Barber, who at one time was @ director on the p boing net up. It was not an outline or plan a graduate of the Baker Forty-Seven Workshop. He was wie we through Mrs, Flanagan and the other sup to theater workers, but he had had no pro essional I have that outhne for the theaters and fo far as I know. oe iy #0 oes, euthinin the way to handle the work and Those were among the original men, and then recently ® ure. ii gives an outline of the cuties. James [iman, who had been a theatrical producer and a. Bernard Freund, as I have said, was with theaters. He was appointed on the Federa) and T will'say, incidentally, that the Supe Lae 0061-86-96), 151 A few Sundays ago James Ullman toefd the yuttie ov ection of the New York Tiues, that he was | n Theater. Mr. Uiiman, who had four tops fe was all the fanld af the critics, that for him th ¥