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...father of two sons, is the party's national labor secretary and a member of its twelve-man policymaking board. The Justice Department identified him as fourth in the U.S. party's hierarchy, called him "the most important figure" it has picked up to date (others: Gerhart Eisler,* Alexander Bittelman, Claudia Jones...
After pudgy little Hanns Eisler, German born Hollywood composer, got into trouble last September with the House Un-American Activities Committee, his fellow composers began to think more highly than ever of his music. To show their disdain for mixing politics with art, several of them got together to sponsor an all Eisler concert in Hollywood's Coronet Theater. It was a sellout at a $6 top-all 300 seats...
Hanns's composer friends* decided to hold another all-Eisler concert in Manhattan, and engaged Town Hall for Feb. 28. Hanns promised to bring forth a new work for the occasion. It was to be called The Alien Cantata. Hanns described it modestly as "a very lyrical piece about myself...
Johnson found the door shut at New York's City College, Eisler at the universities of Michigan and Wisconsin (Marzani was also banned at Wisconsin). Howard Fast tried to speak on four campuses (Columbia, Brooklyn, City College and Hunter College) before a fifth, New York University...
Most officials who banned the speeches were unwilling to say in one-syllable words that Communists as such were unwelcome. Eisler, Marzani and Fast were refused ostensibly because they had been convicted of perjury or contempt. Said an editorial in Campus, student newspaper at City College: "[The ban] insults the student body by casting doubt on its ability to evaluate, analyze and form decisions...