There was a person known to me in the Inlandboatmen’s Union by the name of Gene Robel, who was a member of the Communist Party in the Inlandboatmen’s Union. I think that he was one of the witnesses subpenaed before this hearing. Mr. TAVENNER. Did he testify several days ago? Mr. DENNETT. I believe so. Mr. TAVENNER. Did you at a later time become a member of the Steel Workers’ Union? Mr. DENNETT. That is true. Mr. TAVENNER. What date did you become a member? Mr. DENNETT. Some time in 1942, I think it was. Yes, it was in 1942. Mr. TAVENNER. Will you tell the committee, please, if any members of that union were known to you to be members of the Communist Party. Mr. DENNETT. I have this recollection about that: Remember now all of that transpired more than 7 years ago. I have been expelled from the party for the past 7 years, going on 8. My recollection is positive about 2 persons. There are others about whom I have a very indistinct recollection, and I would be afraid to be positive about. But the two that I can be positive about--one’s name was Andrew Marshall. He was referred to in Barbara Hartle’s testimony as Andy. She did not finish the name. He was well known to me. Another person was Alex Harding. H-a-r-d-i-n-g. I know that there were around 6 or 7 active members of the Communist Party in the steelworkers at that time, but I am so uncertain about the other names that I would hesitate to mention them for fear I might be wrong and might speak of the wrong person. Mr. TAVENNER. There are other matters that I wanted to obtain information about, but there is apparently not time to do it. I wanted particularly to inquire into examples of discipline exercised by the Communist Party over its members. We shall not have time to cover that even in a general way, but I know from what you have said during the course of your testimony that on a number of occasions the Communist Party disciplined you. You have told us of two occasions so far. I wish you would tell the committee of other examples of discipline. Mr. DENNETT. Well, the most important one was my expulsion and that of my former wife. This occurred after my return from the service. You will recall that I have previously indicated that by the time I was inducted into service I was beginning to fall into some disrepute in the party, and the reason for that was that I had been actively engaged in trying to develop a struggle for equal rights for Negroes. I was very much impressed by cases of police brutality against Negroes in the city of Seattle way back in 1940 and 1941. And some special cases had been brought to my personal attention, and I had developed a rather broad struggle on behalf of those people through my connections with the Washington Commonwealth Federation. Of course, I was trying to build a considerable corps of Negro people in the Communist Party.