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. No it was the other way around, Mr. Tavenner. I
don’t know when Bob Marshall prepared this will, but I think Mr. Doyle
would know about this, Upton Sinclair had his so-called epic movement
in California, and there was a lot of discussion of an economy based
on production for use rather than for profit and in the first meeting
of the trustees that we held there was actually a resolution passed
where the rather untenable idea of getting a production-for-use economy
in the United States was discussed and it was decided by the trustees
that the money should actually be employed to develop as much as we
could the organization of trade unions, development and organization
of trade unions, organizing of unemployed people, and actually for the
development of a cooperation between farmers and workers, farmers and
labor, so that instead of having a division of interests as far as they
were concerned, and the trustees laid down a rule that with reference
to grants, that in order to come within what the trustees considered
the provisions of the will as the development of trade unions was
concerned, that the grants would have to be made for some trade-union
purpose, or development of trade unions, and so on, and that was what
was actually done by the trustees.
Mr. TAVENNER. Were there occasions when grants were made on
that theory--on that principle?
Mr. O’CONNELL. On what principle?
Mr. TAVENNER. The one you just named.
Mr. O’CONNELL. Actually, as far as I can remember--and of
course this goes back a long, long time, from 1940 on--I can’t remember
all of the organizations but we usually had an annual meeting of the
trustees and applications were made to the trustees by practically--I
mean just hundreds of organizations around the country that applied to
foundations of this kind, and I think, I can’t remember any exceptions,
I don’t recall any now.
As closely as we could the applications were considered from the point
of view that the money was to be applied by the organization to whom it
was granted to help the organization and development of trade unions
and organizing of unemployed people and particularly the development of
a principle of cooperation between farmers and laborers.
Mr. TAVENNER. But actually the will did provide for the use of
the money for promotion and advancement of an economic system in the
United States based upon the theory of production for use?
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