Mr. O’CONNELL. I don’t think we had any Young Progressives. Mr. TAVENNER. Did you have any position, prior to the formation of the Progressive Party in any organization other than the Democratic Party? Mr. O’CONNELL. No. As I told you, we had an organization known as Roosevelt Democrats; I was executive secretary of it. Mr. TAVENNER. Other than that, you had no position in any group or branch? Mr. O’CONNELL. No, and Tom Rabbitt was not the head of the Progressive Party. Russell Fluent was. Mr. TAVENNER. But he did hold an executive position as stated by Mrs. Hartle? Mr. O’CONNELL. No, he did not. Mr. TAVENNER. What was his position? Mr. O’CONNELL. As I said, he was on the staff from about, I would say---- Mr. TAVENNER. Isn’t that an executive position, being a member of the staff? Was he paid for his services? Mr. O’CONNELL. He was paid for his services. I mean, as I understand, he was not in an executive position. He had an organizational job to do this southern King County. I mean, he was assigned to organizational work, but it certainly wasn’t, I mean he wasn’t chairman or vice chairman, or secretary, or any executive position as I know it. And because of the kind of job he did out there, I dropped him from the staff. Mr. TAVENNER. Now, DeLacy has been shown to have been a member of the Communist Party by witnesses other than Barbara Hartle and since her testimony. Rabbitt has also. Mrs. Hartle stated she had less knowledge of Communist Party membership on your part, but that she sat with you in Communist Party meetings when all present were Communists. Is that statement true or false? Mr. O’CONNELL. That statement, as far as I am concerned, is false. I never sat in any Communist Party meeting with her, at least that I knew was called a Communist Party meeting. I have never sat in when all present were Communists. Mr. TAVENNER. Did you sit in any Communist Party meeting when some of the persons present were not Communists? Mr. O’CONNELL. I do not know what her definition of a Communist Party meeting would be. That is the first thing that bothers me about that statement. I, for instance--I mean if the Communist Party called a meeting, as I understand her statement here, if the Communist Party called a meeting I know I never went to that meeting. Mr. TAVENNER. Did you sit in a meeting of Communist Party members? Mr. O’CONNELL. If she means, for instance, that a meeting of probable Democrats in the 35th District, people who were in the Democrat Party were there and there was a meeting---- Mr. TAVENNER. You speak of the Democrat Party each time. This testimony relates to the Progressive Party. Why not refer to that period of time?