Mr. MOULDER. Do you represent Mrs. Pierce? Will you step up? Mr. TROLSON. Yes, Mr. Chairman. Mr. MOULDER. I want to talk to him. (Whereupon Mr. Trolson conferred with the chairman.) Mr. MOULDER. Call the witness again, please. Mr. WHEELER. Harriet Pierce. Mr. MOULDER. Would you raise your right hand and be sworn. Do you solemnly swear that the testimony which you are about to give before this committee will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Mrs. PIERCE. I do. Mr. TROLSON. May I make a statement before you begin to question the witness? Mr. MOULDER. Yes; you may. Mr. TROLSON. My name is Roy Trolson. I am a member of the Board of Trustees of the Seattle Bar Association. Mrs. Pierce has come to the bar association and rendered a statement that she is unable to secure counsel because she has no funds for that purpose. The president of the Bar Association has asked me to represent Mrs. Pierce, and I want to make it clear that I am representing her without compensation and at the request of the Legal Aid Bureau of the Seattle Bar Association. Mr. MOULDER. We certainly appreciate your position and wish to say that you should be commended as an attorney when requested by the Bar Association to appear and represent any person who has no funds to employ counsel. And certainly it should have no reflection, and doesn’t have any reflection, upon you whatsoever. For a person who is unable to employ counsel, it is the duty of a lawyer under those circumstances to comply with that request, and the burden that has been placed upon you. Mr. TROLSON. Thank you. TESTIMONY OF MRS. HARRIET PIERCE, ACCOMPANIED BY HER COUNSEL, ROY F. TROLSON Mr. WHEELER. Will you state your full name, please? Mrs. PIERCE. Mrs. Harriet Pierce. Mr. WHEELER. Where do you presently reside? Mrs. PIERCE. In Seattle. Mr. WHEELER. Are you presently employed? Mrs. PIERCE. Yes; I am. Mr. WHEELER. Where are you employed? Mrs. PIERCE. I am employed at the Tacoma Country and Golf Club. Mr. WHEELER. Do you have any part-time employment other than your present position? Mrs. PIERCE. No; I do not. Mr. WHEELER. Would you advise the committee of your occupational background prior to your present occupation? (The witness confers with her counsel.) Mrs. PIERCE. I wish to invoke the fifth amendment on this question. Mr. WHEELER. On all prior occupation? Mrs. PIERCE. Yes, sir; that is on all prior occupation. Mr. WHEELER. Isn’t it a fact that you worked for the United States Government at one time? Mrs. PIERCE. On this question, too, I wish to invoke the protection of the fifth amendment. Mr. MOULDER. Do you mean to say that your employment in the United States Government may tend to incriminate you? Mrs. PIERCE. I have already stated my answer, sir. (The witness confers with her counsel.)