Mr. MOULDER. Is there anything further you wish to say? Mr. KROENER. That is all. Mr. MOULDER. The witness is excused. (Whereupon the witness was excused.) The committee will stand recessed until tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock. (Whereupon, at 4:57 p. m., the committee was recessed, to be reconvened at 9 a. m., Friday, March 18, 1955.) [Blank Page] INVESTIGATION OF COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE SEATTLE, WASH., AREA FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1955 UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES, _Seattle, Wash._ PUBLIC HEARING A subcommittee of the Committee on Un-American Activities met, pursuant to recess, at 9 a. m., in Room 402, County-City Building, Seattle, Wash., Hon. Morgan M. Moulder (chairman) presiding. Committee members present: Representatives Morgan M. Moulder (chairman) and Harold H. Velde (appearance as noted). Staff members present: Frank S. Tavenner, Jr., counsel; William A. Wheeler, staff investigator. Mr. MOULDER. The subcommittee will be in order. Mr. Counsel, call the witness you wish to examine. Mr. TAVENNER. Mr. Chairman, I would like to recall Mr. Dennett at this time. TESTIMONY OF EUGENE VICTOR DENNETT, ACCOMPANIED BY HIS COUNSEL, KENNETH A. MacDONALD--Resumed Mr. TAVENNER. It is noted, Mr. Dennett, that your counsel is not with you. Do you prefer to wait until he arrives before proceeding? Mr. DENNETT. It doesn’t make any particular difference. I am sure my counsel intends to be here as soon as he can get here, but there is no need to delay. Mr. TAVENNER. I understand he is in the corridor, so we will wait until he arrives. (At this point Kenneth A. MacDonald, counsel to the witness, entered the hearing room.) Mr. TAVENNER. When you left the stand yesterday, Mr. Dennett, we were speaking of your experience in the Communist Party at Bellingham. Will you please describe to the committee what additional activities of the Communist Party you engaged in while at Bellingham. Mr. DENNETT. I believe, sir, that I recounted that the Communist Party was active in the unemployed movement, and our membership grew from 7 to approximately 160 in the course of a year’s time, and that we had proceeded to reorient that membership in the party from exclusive work in the unemployment councils to working in an organization known as the People’s Councils, which was organized by non-party people. The two leaders of that organization at that time were Mr. M. M. London and Mr. George Bradley. The Communist Party was quite disturbed that there was such an effective organization in existence which was not directly under our leadership. Mr. TAVENNER. What was the name of that organization?