Mr. SCHERER. Was that the last time you saw him? Mr. O’CONNELL. That is the last time I have seen Bob Silberstein. Mr. SCHERER. Have you had any communication with him since? Mr. O’CONNELL. I of course receive a membership card in the National Lawyers Guild and I think it is signed by Bob Silberstein as executive secretary, or executive secretary of the National Lawyers Guild. Mr. SCHERER. Is that his position today? Mr. O’CONNELL. My understanding is he has resigned, at the last convention of the National Lawyers Guild, that he resigned and was replaced by somebody else. Mr. SCHERER. Do you know what he is doing today? Mr. O’CONNELL. No; I don’t have any idea. Mr. SCHERER. Do you know where he lives? Mr. O’CONNELL. Well, the last I knew he was living in New York. He actually, I think, comes from New Jersey and I think he is married to a banker’s daughter who comes from wealthy family, if I remember correctly, in New Jersey. Mr. TAVENNER. Will you tell the committee the circumstances under which the Progressive Party contributed your services to the National Committee To Defeat the Mundt Bill? Mr. O’CONNELL. Well, in connection with the--there were hearings being held in the Senate, as I stated yesterday, by a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1948. I think those hearings were being presided over by former Senator Ferguson and Senator Langer of North Dakota was a member of the committee. If I remember correctly, we received a communication from the national office of the Progressive Party, I think particularly from Mr. C. B. Baldwin, who was then executive vice chairman, if I remember rightly, asking us to send, the Progressive Party of the State of Washington, to send somebody to Washington to testify at this hearing before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee, and I was delegated by the Progressive Party in the State of Washington to come to testify at that hearing. I also think Mr. Russell Fluent, who was chairman of the Progressive Party at that time--he was also incumbent Democratic State treasurer of the State of Washington, was also a delegate, and I think the two of us came down here to testify and I said yesterday while we were waiting to testify the hearings had been going on several days, Senator Ferguson adjourned the hearings and Senator Langer--a considerable number of the people there were upset because they had waited around to be heard and there was considerable protestation, as I remember, about the hearings being adjourned and so Senator Langer asked the people who had not testified to come to his office or, rather, his committee room.