Mr. VELDE. Do I understand, Mr. O’Connell, that you continued in the 82d Congress the same type of work you were doing as far as the Mundt bill was concerned in the 81st Congress? Mr. O’CONNELL. If those are the correct---- Mr. VELDE. You were chairman of the committee. Mr. O’CONNELL. I was chairman of the committee from the time I was selected in June of 1948 until the committee dissolved after the passage of the legislation over the President’s veto in September of 1950. Mr. VELDE. Of course, that would be the committee, I suppose, which was set up to defeat the McCarran-Wood bill. Mr. O’CONNELL. The Mundt-Nixon bill was combined, I think it was combined by a proposal made by several of the Senators over there and also the McCarran Act, I can’t remember all the things that went on in connection with it now, but I think it became popularly called the McCarran Act, if I remember correctly. Mr. TAVENNER. The McCarran-Wood bill. Mr. O’CONNELL. Yes. I think the language became the Internal Security Act. Mr. VELDE. Who composed the committee? Mr. O’CONNELL. Actually the executive officers were myself as chairman, Robert Silverstein of the National Lawyers Guild as secretary, and Bruce Waybur, who was an official or an organizational employee of the United Electrical Workers[1] who was treasurer of the organization, and then the group was sponsored by various outstanding prominent individuals throughout the country. I can’t remember all of them now and all who from time to time---- Mr. VELDE. If I remember correctly, after the bill was passed and became law there was a committee to repeal the McCarran-Wood Act, was there not? Mr. O’CONNELL. I think there was, but I had nothing to do with it. Mr. TAVENNER. You had no part in it? Mr. O’CONNELL. I had no part in it. I went back. I think Professor Chafee [Zechariah Chafee, Jr.] at Harvard and some others organized a committee to repeal the act after that, but I went back to Montana and I had nothing to do with it. Mr. TAVENNER. Will you tell the committee, please, whether or not you became regional director for the International Workers Order during the period of time---- Mr. O’CONNELL. No. I think that language that you use comes from an old report of the Dies committee. I was never regional director for the IWO. The only connection that I had with the IWO is that in the city of Butte the IWO had an affiliated local or lodge there composed of Serbs and Croats and there was considerable division particularly during the war period, World War II period, because if I remember correctly there was a religious difference. I think the Serbs in the organization were Protestants and the Croats were Catholics. There was a division then over the politics of the situation. I think there were some of them who were supporting Milhailovich at that time and some who were supporting Pavlich, if I remember the names correctly.