Communist activities in the peace movement (Women Strike for ...

COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT 2167
Mrs. Chesman. I am.
Mr. NiTTLE. Would counsel kindly identify himself for the record?
Mr. Taylor. Telford Taylor, 400 Madison Avenue, New York
City.
Mr. NiTTLE. Mrs. Chesman, have you ever resided at 1117 White
Plains Road, Bronx, N.Y., and if so for what period?
Mrs. Chesman. Frankly it would be hard for me to remember the
number. It was some place on White Plains Road.
Mr. NiTTLE. What was the period of your residence on White
Plains Road?
Mrs. Chesman. I know it was a period during which my husband
was in the Army so it would be some place in the early forties or the
middle forties or something like that.
Mr. NiTTLE. You are Mrs. Leon Chesman, are you not?
Mrs. Chesman. I am.
Mr. Nittle. Would you state the date and place of your birth?
Mrs. Chesman. I was born in New York City on April 2, 1915.
Mr. Nittle. Would you relate the extent of your formal education?
Mrs. Chesman. I am a graduate of Hunter College, year of '35.
Mr. Nittle. What is your present occupation?
Mrs. Chesman. I am a housewife, mother of two children.
Mr. Nittle. It is the committee's information, Mrs. Chesman,
that you are a Bronx delegate to the Central Coordinating Committee
of the organization, Women Strike for Peace, Metropolitan
New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
Are you a Bronx representative?
Mrs. Chesman. I am not, and I want to clarify that. You know,
;
you must be very bored by now with the question of structure and—
Mr. Nittle. Mrs. Chesman, I think you will have an opportunity
to develop subjects of interest upon pertinent inquiries as we go along.
Mrs. Chesman. Then I simply want to say I am not because
Mr. Nittle. Have you ever been a Bronx delegate to the Central
Coordinating Committee of that organization?
Mrs. Chesman. I have never been an official delegate because there
are no such things.
Mr. Nittle. Were you a delegate, whether official or otherwise, to
the Central Coordinating Committee?
Mrs. Chesman. I have attended them sporadically when there was
nobody else that could go.
Mr. Nittle. When did you first attend a meeting of the Central
Coordinating Committee?
Mrs. Chesman. I am sorry, but I don't remember.
Mr. Nittle. Did you participate in the organization of the Central
Coordinating Committee of that group?
Mrs. Chesman. No, I don't think so.
Mr. Nittle. Will you tell us when you first attended meetings of
the Central Coordinating Committee?
Mrs. Chesmax. You know, this date business is very difficult. I
don't want to be difficult, but I really do not remember when I first
attended that meeting because, as I say, it is not a clearly" defined
area at aU.
Mr. Nittle. I hand you a copy of a document previously marked
for identification as Posner Exhibit No. 1, which is titled "Structure
for Women Strike for Peace, Metropolitan N.Y. New Jersev and
Conn."
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