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2134 COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT Mrs. Freed. Well, it so states here, but this isn't what always happened. There were many people there, sometimes, you know, double the amount, because we didn't follow a structure that rigidly, sir. Mr. NiTTLE. Mrs. Blanche Posner was reported in the New York Times as being the office chairman pro tem of that group, and it was stated that she spent many hours a day in the office. Do you have knov/ledge of that fact? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Mrs. Freed. There are no officers in Women Strike for Peace, but I question your constitutional authority to require me to answer that question and I also question its pertinency to any matter that this subcommittee is authorized to inquire about. For that reason I have already stated, I am invoking my constitutional privilege under the fifth amendment and must decline to answer that. Mr. NiTTLE. When you invoke your constitutional privilege under the fifth amendment, are you invoking the self-incrimination clause of the fifth amendment? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Mrs. Freed. The clause that requires that I need not be a witness against myself. Mr. Doyle. May I inquire at that point. Do you really believe that if you answered that question without claiming jôur constitutional privilege that it might submit you to criminal prosecution? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Mrs. Freed. Insofar as any other individual is concerned, I rely on my previous statement, sir. Mr. Doyle. May I have the answer? I did not quite hear. Mrs. Freed. Insofar as any other individual is concerned, I rely on my previous statement. Mr. Doyle. Well, I respectfully suggest I do not think you have answered my question. I asked you whether or not you really believe if you answered that question truthfully, without claiming your constitutional privilege, it would submit jôu to criminal prosecution. Now that can be answered, I think, "yes" or "no," and should be so answered, as I understand it. (Witness conferred ^vith counsel.) Mrs. Freed. I am claiming my constitutional privilege insofar as anybody else is concerned, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Doyle. I direct you to answer the question. Mrs. Freed. I stand on my previous statement, sir. Mr. Doyle. Go ahead, Counsel. Mr. NiTTLE. This article from the Mount Vernon, N.Y., Daily Argus of January 12, 1962, which we have marked for identification as Freed Exhibit No 1, a copy of which I hand you, reports Mrs. Selwyn Freed as being a Westchester community chairman of an organization titled "Women for Peace." Are you the Mrs. Selwyn Freed to which this article refers? Mrs. Freed. Yes, I am. CDocument marked "Freed Exhibit No. 1" and retained in committee files.) Mr. NiTTLE. Are you a Westchester cohimunity chairman of the Westchester Women for Peace, as reported?
COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT 2135 Mrs. Freed. We don't have any chairman, sir. Mr. NiTTLE. Well, then, you dispute the newspaper account of 3ôur position with that group? We would like to give you an opportunity to correct it, if an error has been made. (Witness conferred with counsel.) Mrs. Freed. Well, I—Î think the statement is erroneous here in the paper. I would like to correct it. We don't have chairmen as such, and if they call me a chairman, this is not true. Mr. NiTTLE. Now, if one were to call white, black, would it still be white or black? Mrs. Freed. There is no pertinence to that question, sir. Mr. NiTTLE. Women for Peace and Women Strike for Peace are one and the same organization. Is that not correct? Mrs. Freed. Yes, sir. Mr. NiTTLE. What was your answer? Mrs. Freed. Yes, sir. Mr. NiTTLE. I turn to another organization for a moment, previously referred to in the interrogation of the prior witness. Miss Clinton. An organization entitled "Conference of Greater New York Peace Groups," conducted a meeting at Carnegie Hall on May 12, 1961, with Linus Pauling as a principal speaker. It is the committee's information that you participated in that affair. Did you? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Mrs, Freed. Yes, I did. Mr. NiTTLE. Do you know Henry Abrams, chairman of the Conference of Greater New York Peace Groups? Mrs. Freed. I question your constitutional authority to require me to answer that question, and I also question its pertinence to any matter that this subcommittee is authorized to inquire about. For these reasons, the reasons already stated, I am invoking my constitutional privilege under the fifth amendment and I must decline to answer that. Mr. NiTTLE. I hand you a copy of the Communist newspaper, the Sunday Worker, dated August 17, 1941, published in New York, marked for identification as Freed Exhibit No. 2. I direct your attention to page 5, where appears a photograph of two women in the upper left-hand corner. Do you appear as the woman on the left? And are you the Iris Schwartz referred to in that account? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Mrs. Freed. I question your constitutional authority to require me to answer that question, and I also question its pertinence to any matter that this subcommittee is authorized to inquire about. For that reason already stated, I am invoking my constitutional privilege on the fifth amendment. (Document marked "Freed Exhibit No. 2" and retained in committee files.) Mr. NiTTLE. The caption of the photograph which appears in that pubhcation is "They Work To Build Their Union," and at the bottom of the photograph there appears the legend: Iris Schwartz (left) works a mimeograph, machine while Betty Miller runs an addressograph at Department Store Employes Union, 151 W. 33rd St.
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