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The Waldorf Statement
On November 25, one month after the trials in Washington, a meeting of film industry executives at New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel occurred where MPAA president Johnston issued a press release on the executives' behalf that is today referred to as the Waldorf Statement.
(Louis B. Mayor was one of the executives who signed off on the statement)
The statement declared that the "Hollywood Ten" would be fired or suspended without pay and not reemployed until they were cleared of contempt charges and had sworn that they were not Communists.
This was the first systematic Hollywood blacklist.
The Waldorf Statement
On November 25, one month after the trials in Washington, a meeting of film industry executives at New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel occurred where MPAA president Johnston issued a press release on the executives' behalf that is today referred to as the Waldorf Statement.
(Louis B. Mayor was one of the executives who signed off on the statement)
The statement declared that the "Hollywood Ten" would be fired or suspended without pay and not reemployed until they were cleared of contempt charges and had sworn that they were not Communists.
This was the first systematic Hollywood blacklist.