Chapter VII: Part 7

Mr. VELDE. I have no questions to ask the witness. It is apparent from his testimony, that Mr. O’Connell has a great deal of knowledge about Communist Party activities which he has refused to give this committee. That does not disturb me as much as the fact that it appears that he is still ideologically favorable to the Communist Party of the United States. It is very regrettable, but apparently every person, including those favorable to the Communist Party, has a right to express his opinion in this country. I want to say this: I hope that Mr. O’Connell will think this matter over in the future and give us the benefit of the knowledge that he possesses about the activities of the Communist Party in the United States.

Mr. O’CONNELL. Congressman, I have done my very best. I have talked to you. I do not want to argue. I do say that I appreciate all the consideration which the committee has given me, particularly on the two instances when I asked for continuations because of my illness. I appreciate the fairness with which the committee has treated me throughout the hearings. I just want to say that, as far as I am concerned--that is, the best way I can describe it honestly and sincerely, is that from my environment, from the poverty since my birth and the things that happened to me as a child and as a young man, and so on, I grew up in a very, very liberal tradition where people were certainly tolerant of all the various shades and hues of political opinion as we saw them. I think I could best describe myself, I am just an old-fashioned American liberal. I want to assure you that I have had no training----

Mr. TAVENNER. I do not want to prolong the discussion. At the beginning of the hearing you mentioned the fact that you had passed the bar in Montana, and that you are now a practicing lawyer, and you intended to forget about any type of political activity. I just wonder whether you consider the Communist Party activity as being political.

Mr. O’CONNELL. I think you asked me that question before.

Mr. TAVENNER. I do not think I did.

Mr. O’CONNELL. Well, somebody asked me it before. As far as I am concerned, I am not engaged in any Communist Party activity in the State of Montana or any party activity, Progressive, or Democrat, or anything. I have been asked by the Progressive Party in 1950 to run for the United States Senate and I refused. I have been asked by the press in Montana--I am not being braggadocio or conceited--by the various newspapers, the Great Falls Tribune, the Lewistown Daily News, and many others, whether I was going to come back into the political life of the State. I have always told them, and told them constantly, that I wanted to be a lawyer; I wanted to be, if I could, the best lawyer that Montana ever had. That was the desire that I had. I have been practicing law to the very best of my ability. When a man starts to practice law, as I did, when he is about 40 years of age, he has a lot to learn. There are many--well, I am sure, Mr. Willis, as an attorney you know the best teacher, of course, is experience. I have been trying to keep my nose clean and hewing to the line. I have been practicing law. That is what I have been doing. I think in my work out there I have earned the respect and consideration of all the people in the kind of job I have been doing.

We do not have any integrated bar in the State of Montana. The Montana Supreme Court regulates and supervises the bar out there. I am sure that the members of the supreme court will tell you the things I have said here today about my friend and all that are true.

Mr. VELDE. Do you not think you are a bit gullible or naive when you say that you did not know there was a Soviet espionage ring operating in this country? Tell the committee the truth.

Mr. O’CONNELL. Now listen. I think I have set forth my position. I do not know that that is actually true. I do not know that it is true. I do not know it. I have never met a Soviet spy that I know of.

Mr. VELDE. It is just unbelievable to me. Of course, that is just my opinion.

Mr. O’CONNELL. You are in a different position than I am.

Mr. VELDE. With all your connections that have been brought out here with the various front groups, with all of your connections with well-known Communists, not to realize that there has been an espionage ring operating in this country is amazing to me. You are an intelligent man.

Mr. O’CONNELL. Any of those groups or any of the individuals that have been mentioned here can be tied down to specific programs or purposes or things of that kind, but certainly nothing along the line of espionage.

Mr. WILLIS. Would it surprise you if they were?

Mr. O’CONNELL. No, it would not surprise me; but what I am saying is that I do not know.

Mr. WILLIS. The committee is adjourned and the witness is dismissed.

Mr. O’CONNELL. Thank you.

(Whereupon, at 5:25 p. m., the hearing in the above matter was concluded and the committee recessed to the call of the Chair.)

INDEX

INDIVIDUALS

Adair, Robin, 473

Archer, James, 436

Armstrong, Harry C., 419, 420, 586, 588

Astley, Theodore Raymond, 522

Atkinson, N. P., 423

Atkinson, Roy, 470, 504

Bader, Barney, 435

Bailey, George, 434

Baldwin, C. B., 553

Balmer, Alice, 485

Batterson, Frank, 512

Beattie, John F., 312

Belden (Mr.), 589

Benjamin, Herbert, 272, 599, 601

Bernard, John T., 572, 573, 598

Bitterman, Jacob, 441-443 (testimony)

Bitterman, Ruth, 442, 522

Bittleman, Alexander, 602

Blauvelt, Mildred, 550

Bloor, Ella Reeve, 583

Boggs, Elizabeth, 471

Bourne, James, 357, 359, 479

Bradley, George, 273, 336, 356

Bristol, Al, 471

Bristol, Frances, 471

Brockway, Harold, 356

Brockway, John, 356

Brodsky, Joseph, 508

Browder, Earl, 264, 475, 581

Brown, Roy, 262

Buchanan, Tom 559, 593

Budenz, Louis, 264, 585, 590, 591, 594, 596-598, 600, 601

Burns, Helmi (Mrs. Tom Burns; also known as Hutenen, Helmi), 437

Burns, Tom, 437

Burton, Philip L., 414

Camozzi, Robert, 469

Campbell, Ray, 311

Carlson, Edwin A., 327-329 (testimony), 365-374 (testimony)

Carlson, Frank, 545, 548

Carmichael, Edward Brook, Jr., 322-326 (testimony)

Carter, Edward C., 461

Cayton, Revels, 467

Chafee, Zechariah, Jr., 507

Clinton, Rose, 558, 593

Clott, Herman, 563

Clott, Lillian, 563, 564, 593

Cluck, Jack R., 443, 450

Coffee, John M., 573

Cohen, Abraham Arthur, 490-492 (testimony)

Cohen, Elizabeth Boggs, 521, 523

Cole, Merwin, 469

Coley, Ward, 469

Corr, Bill, 468

Costigan, Howard, 401, 402, 406, 407, 411, 421

Cour, Jim, 468

Cummings, Al, 381

Cvetic, Matthew, 564, 565

Dafoe, Doc, 473

Daggett, Charles, 468, 469

Daggett, Herbert, 469

Danielson, Jean, 522

Daschbach, John, 472, 520-522, 544, 545, 548, 549, 566, 584

Daschbach, Marjorie, 522

Davis, Jerome, 361

Davis, John, 523, 540

DeLacy, Hugh, 406, 407, 413, 434, 519, 592, 593, 596

Delaney, Paul William, 438-440 (testimony)

Dennett, Eugene Victor, 249-303 (testimony), 335-362 (testimony),
391-413 (testimony), 419-438 (testimony), 466-490 (testimony),
492-493 (testimony), 307, 308, 483, 494, 501, 513, 514, 517,
518, 521, 528, 529.

Dennett, Harriette, 482-484

Dobbins, William K., 406, 407

Dodd, William E., Jr, 541

Dokter, Ted, 470

Donaldson, Hallie, 485

Doran, Dave, 345

DuBois, W. E. B., 569

Ebey, Harold, 406, 407, 412, 434

Egroth, Fair Taylor, 523, 592

Engstrom, James, 355, 395

Espe, Conrad, 438

Field, Gladys, 432, 470

Fisher, C. H., 516, 520

Fletcher, Jess, 340, 406, 434, 469, 586

Flood, George, 434, 435

Fluent, Russell, 520, 553, 565, 567, 592

Fogg, Kathryn, 586, 588

Ford, James W., 540

Foster, William Z., 262

Fowler (Mrs.), 582

Fox, Ernest, 394, 427, 428, 470

Fox, Elsie (Mrs. Ernest Fox; also known as Gilland, Elsie), 470

Frankfeld, Philip, 472

Freyd, Bernard, 492-494 (testimony)

Furuseth, Andrew, 395

Gates, John, 566

Gemson, Richard L., 438

George, Lawrence Earl, 414-416 (testimony)

Gilland, Elsie. (_See_ Fox, Elsie)

Granich, Max, 264

Greenglass, David, 594

Gundlach, Ralph, 523, 544, 545

Gustafson, Margaret Elizabeth, 374-377 (testimony)

Haines, Victor, 258, 351, 352, 358

Halonen, Oiva R., 299-301, 302-308 (testimony)

Hall, Gus, 567

Hall, Robert, 557

Hanke, Ed, 357

Hannon, Bruce, 395

Harding, Alex, 474

Harding, Arthur, 470

Harding, Jean, 470

Harris, Calvin, 381

Harris, Lem, 530, 532, 533

Harter (Mrs.). (_See_ Noral, Mrs. Alex.)

Hartle, Barbara, 247, 278, 299, 300, 305, 311, 314, 315, 319,
327, 332, 365, 380, 381, 385, 388, 414, 415, 417, 426, 427,
437, 439-442, 474, 489, 496, 501, 509-511, 514, 516-518,
521-523, 543-545, 591-595, 597.

Hatten, C. T., 317, 362, 363, 493, 495

Hatten, Eugene R., 485

Henderson, Donald, 437

Henry, Edward E., 490

Hicks, Victor, 434

Hillman, Sidney, 504

Hoffman, Elsie, 566

Honig, Nat, 433, 586

Hosue, I., 438

Huber, L. R., 468

Hudson, Roy, 430, 431, 472

Huff, Helen, 485

Huff, Henry, 475, 477, 479, 484, 566, 571

Hunterer, L. C., 520, 565, 566

Hutcheson (William), 268

Hutchins, Hutchin R., 349, 357

Hutenen, Helmi. (_See_ Burns, Helmi.)

Jackins (Carl), Harvey, 521

Jackson, Gardner, 530-533

Jackson, Harry, 405, 406, 436, 470

Jackson, Henry, 405

Johnson, A. A., 356

Johnston, Harold, 313-316 (testimony), 331, 332, 363-364
(testimony), 365, 471

Kerr, Frank, 311, 312, 499, 500

King, Paddy, 570, 602

Kinney, Alice, 485

Kinney, Glenn, 311, 471

Kirkwood, Trudi, 485

Knudsen, C. Calvert, 330

Krahl, Robert B., 379-382 (testimony)

Kroener, Donna, 332

Kroener, Edmund D., 330-333 (testimony)

Larsen, Karley, 406, 407, 433, 592

Lasser, David, 601

Law, Dick, 470

Law, Laura, 470

Lawrence, Adrian, 434

Lawrie, John (Jack), Jr., 316, 317-322 (testimony)

Lawrie, John, Sr., 260, 359, 479

Leavitt, Edward, 260, 359

Leeds, David, 570

Legg, Charles, 472

Lesser, Sarah H., 322

Linden, Emil, 262

Lokanath, D(r.), 461

London, M. M., 273, 336, 340

Lovestone, Jay, 279

Luddington, Mel, 356

Lundeberg, Harry, 269, 394, 395, 427-429

Lundquist, Hugo, 435

MacDonald, Kenneth A., 249, 335, 374, 391, 419, 441, 466, 492

Marcantonio, Vito, 569, 575, 582

Markward, Mary Stalcup, 556, 558, 559, 561, 562, 564

Marshall, Andrew, 474

Marshall, James, 526

Marshall, Robert, 524-527, 530

Marzani, Carl, 563, 593

Max, Alan, 349

McCoy, Nora, 520

McGrath, Ellen, 469

McGregor, Harry, 362

McMichael, Jack R., 535, 581

Merrill, Lewis, 436

Miller, Robert, 382-391 (testimony)

Minowitz, Tilla, 562, 593

Moe, Iver, 467

Mortimer, Wyndham, 435

Mosio, Wayne, 472

Munter, Paul, 254-257

Murphy, James, 262

Nelson, Burt, 434

Nelson, Steve, 326, 572, 575

Niendorff, Fred, 482

Niles, David, 573

Noral, Alex, 259, 260, 270, 272, 273, 349, 350, 357, 359

Noral, Mrs. Alex (formerly Mrs. Harter), 468

O’Connell, Jeremiah Joseph, 261, 274, 300, 362, 363, 502-603
(testimony)

Olson, Martin, 355

Orton, O. M., 432

Patton, James G., 530-533

Payne, Earl, 471

Peck, I. A., 365

Pennock, William, 408, 420, 421, 423, 511-516, 518, 520, 566,
572, 585, 587-592

Pettus, Ken, 523

Pettus, Terry, 468, 512, 513, 523

Pierce, Harriet, 416-418 (testimony)

Poth, Philip, 472

Popper, Martin, 549

Powell, R. H., 365

Pressman, Lee, 430, 431, 435, 436

Pringle (Mr.), 395

Pritchett, Harold J., 432, 468

Quill, Mike, 578

Quist, Helen, 354

Rabbitt, Thomas C., 421, 514-516, 518, 566, 572, 585-593, 595-597

Randolph, A. Philip, 540

Rappaport, Morris (also known as Rapport, Morris), 349-351, 357,
358, 401, 405, 407, 410, 421, 433, 471

Rapport, Morris. (_See_ Rappaport, Morris.)

Rasmussen, Ted, 469, 470

Raven, Robert, 572

Ray, Tommy, 437

Remes, Andrew, 470, 475, 477, 571

Remington, William Robert, 533, 534

Reno, Phil, 531

Rifkin, Ruth, 559-561, 593

Riley, Harriett, 586

Ringold, Solie M., 382

Robel, Eugene Frank, 309-312 (testimony), 331, 473

Roberts, Daniel, 486

Robeson, Paul, 537

Robinson, Reid, 436

Rodney (Mr.), 256

Sandvigen, I. E., 545

Santos, John, 482

Sass, Lou, 470

Sasuly, Elizabeth, 560, 561, 593

Schuddakoph, Margaret Jean, 522

Searle, Elizabeth, 561

Shipka, Peter, 507, 508, 598, 599

Silberstein, Robert J., 549, 551-556, 558-560, 593

Silverstein, Robert, 507

Sinclair, Upton, 528

Smith, Claude, 469, 483, 484

Smith, F. S. U., 471

Smith, Ferdinand, 436

Smith, George, 355

Sobeleski, Helen, 433, 470

Starkovich, George Tony, 274

Stack, Walter, 394, 434, 435

Stenhouse, John, 443-466 (testimony)

Stevens, John, 434

Stith, Ernest Paul, 512

Stone, John B., 556-558, 593

Stromberg, Yetta, 293, 300

Strong, Anna Louise, 403, 528

Stucker, Vivian, 485

Sullivan, James, 586, 590

Sunoo, Harold, 523

Sykes, Jay G., 302, 309, 312, 313, 327, 363-365, 379, 499

Taverniti, Helen, 374

Taylor, Fair. (_See_ Egroth, Fair Taylor.)

Telford, Kate, 466

Telford, Sam, 466

Thrasher, Elmer, 332

Ting, Chi Chio, 465

Trolson, Roy, 416

Urey, Harold, 590

Van Erman, Thomas J., 437

Van Lydegraf, Clayton, 471, 484, 566, 571

Van Veen, Sadie, 347

Vassiliev, B., 279, 280

Wakefield, Lowell, 349, 420, 514

Walker, Fred, 254-257, 259, 359

Walsh, Patrick, 433

Ward, Harry F., 581

Warren, Ward F., 586

Waybur, Bruce, 507, 553, 555, 556, 558, 559, 563

Westman, Hans Lenus Adolph, 495-499 (testimony), 514

Wheeler, Frances, 564

Wildman, Leonard Basil, 471, 521

Wildman, Muriel, 471

Williamson, John, 472

Winston, Henry, 567

Wright, Alexander, 593

Wright, Richard, 537

ORGANIZATIONS

Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 323, 472, 572

American Federation for Social Action, 581

American Federation of Musicians, Seattle: Local 76, 374

American Federation of Teachers, 375, 376

American Friends of the Chinese People, 582

American Fund for Public Service, 535

American League Against War and Fascism, 581

American League for Peace and Democracy, 579-582
Fourth National Congress, 574

American Newspaper Guild, 491

American Peace Mobilization, 535

American Youth Congress, 534

American Youth for Democracy, 541

Automobile Workers of America, United, 435

CIO, Political Action Committee, 504

California Labor School, 542

Cannery, Agricultural and Packinghouse Workers of America, United, 437
Cannery Workers Union, Seattle, 437

Central Labor Council, 396, 397

Civil Rights Congress, 477, 539
District of Columbia, 559
Washington State, 548, 584, 585

Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy, 582, 583

Commonwealth Builder Clubs, 397-399

Communist International, 352
Executive committee, 352-354

Communist Party, U. S. A.:
District of Columbia:
Community Club, 562
Newspaper Club, 559
Language groups: Finnish Federation, 293, 300
Northwest District (District 12), 483, 510
District Bureau, 358
Review Commission, 483, 484
Washington, State of:
Bellingham, 352
Bellamy Club, 354
Liberal Club, 353, 354
Bremerton: Victory Club, 377
King County: Negro and National Groups Commission, 415
Northwest Region, 326
Seattle:
Georgetown Club, 417
Hilltop Club, 439
Holly Park Branch, 388
Queen Anne Section, 439
Snohomish County, 512
Sultan Section 51, 326

Communist Political Association, 387-389

Ferry Boatmen’s Union of the Pacific, 392, 393, 395, 427

Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 575

Friends of the Soviet Union, 357, 471

Frontier Films, 537

Industrial Workers of the World, 266, 268, 507, 599

Inland Boatmen’s Union of the Pacific, 396, 398, 427, 431, 469, 473

International Labor Defense, 255, 467, 539, 576, 578

International, Third (Comintern): Sixth World Congress, 260, 350

International Workers Order, 507, 598-601

Interracial Action Committee, 415

International Juridical Association, 537

Institute of Pacific Relations, 459-462

Ku Klux Klan, 356

Labor Youth League, 299

Lincoln Book Store, 448

Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, International, 268, 414

Lumber Workers Union, National, 262

Machinists, International Association of, 311, 314, 315, 330, 365
Local 79, 441

Marine Cooks and Stewards, National Union of (of the Pacific),
393, 467

Marine Firemen, Oilers, Watertenders and Wipers Association, Pacific
Coast, 393

Marine Workers Industrial Union, 393, 406, 436, 437

Maritime Federation of the Pacific, 268, 393-396, 427
District Council, 393, 396

Medical Bureau and North American Committee To Aid Spanish
Democracy, 574

Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, International Union of, 436, 563

National Committee To Defeat the Mundt Bill, 505, 506, 550-552,
555-558, 560, 563-565, 593

National Farmers Union, 530-533

National Federation for Constitutional Liberties, 538, 584

National Lawyers Guild, 507, 542, 549, 551, 552, 554-556, 563

National Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association, 469

National Maritime Union, 436, 437

National Negro Congress, 539

Office and Professional Workers of America, United, 436
Local 35, 480-484

Pacific Northwest Labor School (also known as Seattle Labor
School), 375, 520, 522, 523, 543-545, 548, 549

People’s Councils, 335-338

Presentation, Inc., 562, 563

Progressive Citizens of America, 592

Progressive Party, 592
Washington State, 505, 553

Red International of Labor Unions, 263, 265-267, 276, 393, 394

Robert Marshall Foundation, 524, 527, 531-535, 541-544, 547

Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, 393, 394, 470

Seamen’s Union of America, International, 267, 393

Seattle Labor School. (_See_ Pacific Northwest Labor School.)

Socialist Party of America, 353, 354

Socialist Workers Party, 389, 486, 487

Southern Negro Youth Congress, 541

Southern Conference for Human Welfare, 540, 541

Superior Print Shop, 561, 562

Trade Union Unity League, 262-267

Transport Workers Union of America, CIO, 482

Unemployed Citizens Leagues, 336-340, 359, 398

Unemployed Councils, 336, 338, 339
National Committee, 348

United Nations, 462

Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 575

Washington Commonwealth Federation, 397-402, 404, 405, 407-413,
420, 426, 429, 474, 509, 510, 513, 517-519, 528, 529.

Washington Pension Union, 420-422, 429, 509-512, 514-520, 590

Woodworkers of America, International, 407, 432, 433, 466, 468

Workers School of New York, 256

Workers Alliance, 398, 601

Young Pioneers of America, 292-298

Young Communist League, 292, 299, 346, 354, 542

PUBLICATIONS

Daily People’s World, 535
Northwest edition, 468, 512, 548

Daily Worker, 535, 570

Federated Press, 535, 536, 556

How the Communist International Formulates at Present the
Problem of Organization, 279

Jerry O’Connell’s Montana Liberal, 503, 580

New World, 413, 468, 484, 523, 543

Twenty-one Conditions for Affiliation With the Communist
International, The, 264

Union Guardian, 523

United States Week, 541

Victory and After, 475

Voice of Action, 468

Young Worker, 346

FOOTNOTES:

[1] This is a reference to the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America.

[Transcriber's Note:

Obvious printer errors corrected silently.

Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.]