Investigation of Communist Activities in Seattle, Wash., Area, Hearings, Part 1United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
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Investigation of Communist Activities in Seattle, Wash., Area, Hearings, Part 1
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Communism -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
Departmentalize the work into the following categories which are
indispensable now.
1. Unit Organizer--The most dependable person.--Come to Liberal
Club Sat. at 2 P.M.
2. Dues Secretary--Know list of membership--Come to Liberal Club
Sat. at 1 P. M.
3. Fraction Secretary--Get list of all organizations to which the
membership belongs. Come to Liberal Club Sat. at 3 P. M.
Comradely yours,
SEC. ORG.
Mr. TAVENNER. Is there any further comment you desire to make
concerning that document?
Mr. DENNETT. Evidently I only have part of that document in my
own copy.
Mr. TAVENNER. I believe there is a resolution appearing at the
end of the document which you apparently do not have.
Mr. DENNETT. There is one note of explanation at the bottom,
which reads as follows, and I think it speaks for itself:
The party organization is flexible. Forces can be shifted from
place to place, etc. But the party line is quite well defined and
there are sharp differences between that which is approved by the
party line and that which is disapproved by the party line. The
party line does not change except under rare and unusual occasions.
The sharp change in the international situation has brought
forth a change in the attitude of the Communist Parties to the
social-democratic groups. This includes the Socialist Party of
America.
The whole membership of the section should have read the statement
of the ECCI in the Daily Worker some 2 or 3 weeks ago----
Mr. TAVENNER. What is ECCI?
Mr. DENNETT. Executive Committee of the Communist
International--
where the change of policy was explained.
The Communist Party will maintain vigilance against those who
attempt to break the united front and thereby betray the position
of the working class by complete and ruthless exposure. But there
is a truce existing at the present time between the Communist
Parties and the Social-Democrats. The Bellamy Club should be
included with the Social-Democrats.
That was a local organization in the Bellingham area which I had not
mentioned before. It was a group who had studied Edward Bellamy’s
Looking Backward and his other Socialist books and pamphlets.
I believe that statement sufficiently illustrates what we were
undertaking to do, and it is consistent with what was going on all over
the country. The only thing is we met with more success than others did.
Mr. TAVENNER. You described the activities of the unemployed
councils in Bellingham, and you have told us that they were
Communist-organized groups. Will you tell the committee, please, who
the Communist Party members were who took the lead in that work, in
addition to yourself, of course?
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