Investigation of Communist activities in Seattle, Wash., area. Hearings, Part 3 — John Shaqi
Investigation of Communist activities in Seattle, Wash., area. Hearings, Part 3United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
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Investigation of Communist activities in Seattle, Wash., area. Hearings, Part 3
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Communism -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
Mr. O’CONNELL. Robert Marshall at the time of my original
acquaintance with him was chief of the reclamation division of the
forestry service. He had begun his early career in the forestry service
at Missoula, Mont., which was located in my Congressional District, the
First or Western Congressional District of Montana.
Shortly after I came back to Washington to take my seat in 1937, Robert
Marshall came to my office and introduced himself and told me that
because he had started his career in the forestry service out there he
had always had an interest in the district particularly because of its
large forestry holdings, large forestry provisions, and he and I became
close friends, socially, I would say more socially than anything else.
I think he died about a year and a half or maybe two years after I--I
can’t remember whether he died in 1938 or 1939.
Mr. TAVENNER. His will was probated in 1940.
Mr. O’CONNELL. I think that is correct. His death was probably
in 1939.
Mr. TAVENNER. Were you one of the witnesses to his will?
Mr. O’CONNELL. No, I was not.
Mr. TAVENNER. Did he discuss with you at the time of the
making of his will or prior thereto the purpose he had in mind in
setting up a trust in which you were named as one of the trustees?
Mr. O’CONNELL. No, he had never discussed--in fact, I really
did not know that Bob Marshall had any money. He lived very ordinarily,
didn’t give any indication he had any money. I was back out in Butte,
Mont., and I had been defeated for Congress and I got a notice from the
surrogate court in New York that I was named trustee in the will and I
thought I had come into a lot of money. I was sent a copy of the will
and I was named as trustee of what later became the Robert Marshall
Foundation.
Mr. TAVENNER. The will authorized you and the other trustees
to apply the income derived from the trust and such parts of the
principal as the trustees in their own unlimited discretion deemed
necessary for the following objects and purposes:
The education of the people of the United States of America to the
necessity and desirability of the development and organization of
unions of persons engaged in work or of unemployment and unemployed
persons, and the promotion and advancement of an economic system in
the United States based upon the theory of production for use and
not for profit.
Did it not?
Mr. O’CONNELL. That is correct.
Mr. TAVENNER. That part of the will which related to the
education of the people of the United States to the necessity and
desirability of developing and organizing unions of persons engaged in
work was actually considered by the trustees as more or less window
dressing, wasn’t it?
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