Mr. TAVENNER. Mr. Chairman, I think the record should also show that Tom Buchanan was identified in the testimony of Mrs. Mary Stalcup Markward as an ex-Washington newspaperman assigned to the Youth Club of the Communist Party when he became a member of the Communist Party in Washington, D. C. Later he was transferred to the Newspaper Club of the Communist Party in Washington and since that time has been an employee of the Civil Rights Congress in Washington. Mr. O’CONNELL. Does it state when he became a member of the Communist Party? Mr. TAVENNER. I am not certain that it does. I do not have her testimony with me. But I am not certain as to the number of years of Communist Party membership before he was assigned to the Newspaper Club of the Communist Party. Was Ruth Rifkin an employee of your committee? Mr. O’CONNELL. I can’t remember now. The name doesn’t--wasn’t she a notary public? Mr. TAVENNER. She could have been a notary public. Mr. O’CONNELL. Didn’t she run in addition to being a notary public, didn’t she run a mimeograph shop or something of that kind? That is the recollection that I have. Mr. TAVENNER. According to your report covering the period of April 1950 she was employed in a secretarial capacity. She was paid for secretarial services. Mr. O’CONNELL. I think she ran a secretarial service shop and did mimeographing and so on. That is my recollection. Mr. TAVENNER. How was she employed by you? Mr. O’CONNELL. I think we took particular materials to her sometimes to dictate and then to have her run off on mimeograph. Mr. TAVENNER. Was she known to you to be a member of the Communist Party? Mr. O’CONNELL. No, she was not. Mr. TAVENNER. Mr. Chairman, I would like for the record to show Mary Stalcup Markward in the course of her testimony before this committee also identified Ruth Rifkin as a member of the Communist Party. Mr. WILLIS. Was she assigned or had anything to do with the Newspaper Club of the Communist Party? Mr. TAVENNER. No, sir. I am certain she was not, but I would like to turn to that testimony, if I can locate it. I think it important to read that testimony, Mr. Chairman. Mr. WILLIS. I asked that question because the witness identified her as some kind of a secretarial service or mimeographing service. Mr. O’CONNELL. My only recollection about her was that her shop was close to the Lawyers Guild office there and she did secretarial work and got out mimeographing and my connection with her was of course completely mechanical. Mr. TAVENNER. Who selected her for the performance of their work? Mr. O’CONNELL. I would imagine Mr. Silberstein told me she did that kind of work and where her office was and where her shop was. Mr. TAVENNER. Were you acquainted with Elizabeth Sasuly? Mr. O’CONNELL. Yes, I was. Mr. TAVENNER. Was she employed by the National Committee To Defeat the Mundt Bill?