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

2084 COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT
Mrs, PosNER. Again I must decline, invoking the fifth amendment.
Mr. NiTTLE. It is the committee's information that Dorothy
Rosenwald presented and read this proposed structural and procedural
plan at a meeting of the organization.
Do you have knowledge of this fact?
Mrs. PosNER. The same answer, sir, the fifth amendment.
Mr. NiTTLE. I also ought to state for the record, Mr. Chairman,
that the committee possesses no information that Mrs. Rosenwald is,
or has been identified as, a member of the Communist Party.
I want to call your attention also to page 3 of this proposed plan,
Posner Exhibit No. 2. The last paragraph opens with these words:
"We have come a long way since November 1, 1961."
Does that date refresh your memory as to the time when the
organizing meeting of Women Strike for Peace in the New York, New
Jersey, and Connecticut area took place?
Mrs. PosNER. Again the fifth.
Mr. NiTTLE. Are you personally acquainted with Mrs. Dagmar
Wilson, who has reportedly described herself variously as the starter,
coordinator, funnel, and head of Women Strike for Peace?
Mrs. PosNER. Again I must decline to answer on the fifth amendment.
Mr. NiTTLE. How long have you known Mrs. Dagmar Wilson, if
you have known her?
Mrs. Posner. Again the fifth.
Mr. NiTTLE. Did Mrs. Wilson play any part at all in the organization
of your New York group of Women Strike for Peace?
Mrs. Posner. I invoke the fifth amendment.
Mr. Nittle. Did you obtain Mrs. Wilson's approval for either the
proposed structural plan or the plan as finally adopted, evidenced by
Posner Exhibits Nos. 2 and 1, respectively, prior to acting on them
by your organization?
Mrs. Posner. I stand on the fifth amendment.
Mr. Nittle. Mrs. Posner, it is the committee's information that
you were employed as a teacher since 1922 in the New York City
public school system, that you resigned as a teacher on September 4,
1952.
The committee's investigation discloses that, in the course of such
employment, you were a member of a Communist Party fraction of
public school teachers at the DeWitt Clinton High School.
Were you a member of a Communist Party fraction of public school
teachers during the course of your employment at the DeWitt Clinton
High School in New York City?
(Witness conferred with counsel.)
Mrs. Posner. May I ask the pertinency of that piece of information
to the Women Strike for Peace movement? Is that permitted, Mr.
Doyle?
Mr. Doyle. Yes, indeed. The question must always be pertinent
and also the answers should be.
Mrs. Posner. Yes.
Mr. Doyle. But, of course, the statement I read, I think, showed
very clearly the pertinency of this question, because we are going into
the question in these hearings of the extent, if at all there is any
extent, of infiltration of the Women Strike for Peace by Communists.