Mr. TAVENNER. Robert Marshall you say was from the State of Montana? Mr. O’CONNELL. No, Robert Marshall was actually a New Yorker, his dad was Louis Marshall, a partner of Samuel Untermyer, outstanding corporation lawyer in New York. Mr. TAVENNER. Was a great deal of his experience in the forestry service on the west coast? Mr. O’CONNELL. No; 3 years of his service in the Forestry Department were at Missoula, Mont., but not on the west coast. We are in the Rocky Mountain area, you see. Mr. TAVENNER. I understand. Mr. O’CONNELL. Is this within the scope of the hearing? Mr. VELDE. The Robert Marshall Foundation? Mr. O’CONNELL. Yes. Mr. VELDE. I think it would be. Mr. DOYLE. We will take a short recess. (Brief recess.) (Committee members present after recess: Representatives Doyle and Scherer.) Mr. DOYLE. The committee will come to order and let the record show that the chairman of the full committee, Mr. Walter, appointed a different subcommittee to continue this hearing today, consisting of Mr. Moulder, Mr. Doyle, and Mr. Scherer, of Ohio, and that Mr. Scherer and Mr. Doyle are both present, a legal majority of the new subcommittee. Mr. O’Connell, will you please rise and be sworn again. Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Mr. O’CONNELL. I do. Mr. TAVENNER. Mr. O’Connell, I referred to the proposal sponsored by the Communist Party in the State of Washington in 1936 for the enactment of a law establishing production-for-use initiative as it was called. Mr. O’CONNELL. That was stolen from Upton Sinclair’s legislation. Mr. TAVENNER. And possibly also from the Soviet Union. Mr. O’CONNELL. I don’t propose to speak for the Soviet Union. Mr. TAVENNER. Do you propose to speak for Mr. Upton Sinclair? Mr. O’CONNELL. I knew Mr. Sinclair quite well and he used to contribute to my campaign and I had some opportunity to see his campaign in California. Mr. TAVENNER. Eugene V. Dennett described a convention of the Washington Commonwealth Federation, held in April 1936 in Everett, Wash., and the part that the Communist Party played in that convention. His testimony relating to this particular matter is as follows: