Stephen Vaughn has written that Warner Bros. “fired more than any other studio” after the labor unrest. “Jack Warner,” he says, “was among those who retreated from liberalism. He began to reassess his politics soon after the war. After strikers picketed his studio, he claimed that he was the ‘victim of a gigantic communist conspiracy’ and vowed never to make another ‘liberal’ movie. From then on, he said, he would vote for Republicans.”83 Politically minded screenwriter John Wexley recalls running into Jack Warner “that day after a lot of fighting took place” at his studio; the two were “in a steam bath, by chance. He said, ‘I saw you on that goddamn picket line. Stop striking. Fuck off!’ He was angry. I was just a yapping dog annoying him.”84 Like a number of other moguls, Jack Warner was under grave stress, faced as he was with unhappy workers, unforgiving anti-Semites, and an uncertain economy at home and abroad.