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
Mr. VELDE. Let me state that while I concur with the chairman
and the views of our counsel that the names of these young people
should not be put on record, I do think that any adults you knew to be
members of the Communist Party should be identified in this record at
the present time.
Mr. MOULDER. May I also add that further investigation will be
made concerning it.
Mr. TAVENNER. Mr. Dennett, we have followed with a great deal
of interest the record of many of these young people who were gotten
into camps, gotten into the Young Communist League organizations in
school, Labor Youth League organizations in school, to determine what
happened to them afterward.
We have found at one place, for instance, that there was an organized
drive made by the organizer of the Communist Party in that area to
follow these young people after they had finished their schooling.
Mr. DENNETT. It was my intention in this case, too.
Mr. TAVENNER. To follow them and to eventually bring them into
active work within the Communist Party. Was that the general purpose?
Mr. DENNETT. That was my purpose. And I tried to do it. But I
was shifted around a little bit too rapidly, and I broke contact too
many times and lost track of all of them.
Mr. TAVENNER. I want to ask at this time, with the chairman’s
approval, this question:
Are there any of these young persons who attended this camp who you
later learned identified themselves with the Communist Party and became
active in Communist work? If so, I think those names should be given.
Mr. VELDE. Certainly I concur.
Mr. DENNETT. There is only one in this list that I feel
certain enough about to identify in the manner in which you ask. The
rest are names which do not ring as clearly to me after a passage of
20 years. Remember now that was in 1932. It is nearly 25 years ago. In
fact, I had no idea that I even kept this record. I had forgotten that
I had kept it.
But it is very refreshing to me because it brings back to my own
recollection certain things which, if I hadn’t kept such a record, I
would have completely forgotten.
The only person in this group that I remember distinctly is Oiva
Halonen.
Mr. TAVENNER. Will you spell the name, please?
Mr. DENNETT. The first name is O-i-v-a, and the last name
Halonen, H-a-l-o-n-e-n.
Mr. TAVENNER. Mr. Chairman, this individual was also
identified by Barbara Hartle while a witness before this committee as
having been known by her to be a member of the Communist Party, and has
been subpenaed.
Mr. MOULDER. Is that a man or woman?
Mr. DENNETT. It is a man.
Mr. MOULDER. Do you know where he is located now?
Mr. TAVENNER. He is under subpena, Mr. Chairman.
Will you examine the answers to his test, and state whether you can
identify the handwriting, whether you filled it out, or whose it was?
Mr. DENNETT. His was the one I referred to as a very promising
one.
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