Chapter 6 Summary

Stahr calls Cecilia a week later and asks her to set up a meeting between him and a Communist Part organizer. Cecilia once had this type of connection. However, she lost contact with many of these people last fall, when her boyfriend died in a car accident. Stahr wants the meeting in order to gain insight into contract negotiations that are failing between him and Writer's Guild.

Cecilia manages to get a guy, Brimmer, to come meet with Stahr. They meet at Cecilia's home and discuss politics politely if a little angrily. Stahr wants Brimmer's people to stop inciting his writers and Brimmer wants the freedom to do whatever he likes. Stahr suggests lunch, where the conversation continues, including Brimmer's insistence that Stahr and his colleagues should back the anti-Nazi league. Brimmer also argues that the studios do not pay writers nearly enough...