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

COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT 2079
Mr. Rabjnowitz. Will the committee supply the witness with
copies of these exhibits, please? Mr. Chairman, will we get them?
Mr. NiTTLE. Mr. Chairman, I want to ask that a general order be
made for the reception into the record of all exhibits identified in the
course of these hearings without a specific request.
Mr. Doyle. The order is made.
Mr. Rabinowitz. May the witness be supplied with copies of all
of those exhibits so that she may have a copy in accordance with
normal legal procedure?
Mr. Doyle. The witness has refused to identify the document in
any way.
Mr. Rabinowitz. Do I understand you are refusing, Mr. Chairman?
Mr. Doyle. I think you are entitled. Counsel, to a copy of the
record.
Mr. Rabinowitz. The record will include those exhibits?
Mr. Doyle. Yes, sir.
Mr. Rabinowitz. Therefore, I will get copies of the exhibits?
Mr. Doyle. Yes.
Mr. Rabinowitz. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Doyle. I assume the witness has a copy of that document
already.
Mr. Nittle. Yes, Mrs. Posner, isn't a copy of that document in
your possession as office chairman of Women Strike for Peace?
Mrs. PosNER. 1 must again refuse to answer for the same—on the
same grounds, of the fifth amendment.
Mr. Nittle. Literature issued bearing the name of this organization
indicates that its office is located at 750 Third Avenue, New York City.
How long has your organization occupied offices at this address?
Mrs. Posner. I must continue to invoke the fifth amendment.
Mr. Nittle. Will you tell the committee how your appointment as
chairman of the Ofiice Committee was effected?
Mrs. Posner. Again, even at the risk of boring you, I must say I
refuse to answer the question on the fifth amendment.
Mr. Nittle. Mrs. Posner, Women Strike for Peace, according
to numerous press reports, was in its origin a movement of individual
American women which sprang up in September 1961 without formal
or advanced planning and organization. Allegedly it was sparked by
an inspiration that came to Mrs. Dagmar Wilson, of Washington,
D.C. It was reported that women throughout the Nation thereafter
reacted "spontaneously" to her idea of mobilizing women in action
for peace.
Would you tell the committee when the first organizing meeting of
Women Strike for Peace, Metropolitan New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
was held?
Mrs. Posner. You seem to be so well informed about this movement,
it seems almost supernumerary for me to add to it, so I must
again stand on the fifth amendment.