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. Yes; I think another thing that would lend
some stability to what I am saying is that I think the tax bureau at
one of the local Federal district courts in determining the taxability
of the foundation itself actually I think handed down a ruling that
the foundation was not entitled to a section 101 exemption because
that particular provision actually called for the elimination of the
capitalistic system. I think that was the wording used either by the
bureau or the court and from that time on the trustees never actually,
I can’t think of a single organization or a single group--and we had
applications I know, I am trying to think of some of the organizations
that existed over that period of time--I can’t recall any of them now
who specifically asked for grants based on what they called theory
of production for use rather than for profit. But I can’t think of a
single instance where the trustees actually made----
Mr. TAVENNER. That was actually the system in use in the
Soviet Union, was it not?
Mr. O’CONNELL. I have never been in the Soviet Union and I am
not----
Mr. TAVENNER. However, you know, that is true, don’t you?
Mr. O’CONNELL. My information that I get from reading and so
on is that there is a modification. I think if I state it correctly in
the industrial field I think there is production for use rather than
for profit, but as I understand the Soviets have now abandoned as far
as particular foreign farm production is concerned----
Mr. TAVENNER. Was it not the purpose of the Communist Party in
the United States at that time to foist upon this country just such a
plan, namely, to establish a Communist system of production for use and
not for profit?
Mr. O’CONNELL. I, of course, wouldn’t be qualified to say, I
wouldn’t be qualified to state whether or not that was their purpose or
their program.
As a matter of fact, the program of the Communist Party as I remember
it before I came to Congress, while I was in Congress and after the
program of the Communist Party in the United States was fluctuating--as
a matter of fact, I think there was a removal of Browder because he
was advocating--removal of Browder by the Communist Party leadership
because he was advocating a companionship or partnership with capital
and that capital and communism could exist and there could be as I
understand it--that was the program of the Communist Party for a long
time until he was removed, I can’t remember when.
But I knew Bob Marshall those years--I think I can positively state
that Bob Marshall was not a Communist and that the provisions in that
will and certainly the people that were named as trustees in addition
to the trade union trust as we called it, the Marshall Foundation
Trust, there was a civil liberties trust of which I think Roger
Baldwin was the head and I think everyone will agree he is decidedly
anti-Communist.
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