Disheartened and confused, Walt fell back on a paranoid conspiracy theory, claiming through an ad in the trade paper Variety that the strike was “Communistic.”

Indeed, those ideals of regimentation, if pursued, will lead to the inevitable overthrow of our government and the establishment of some sort of communistic rule.

Since such debates had created the New Deal government, which was, to his mind, godless and communistic, they must be the wrong approach.