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

2086 COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT
It would appear from that, Mrs. Posner, that you have volunteered
many hours and many days of work in the New York office of Women
Strike for Peace.
Have you done this upon the request or on orders of any person
known to you to be a member of the Communist Party?
Mrs. Posner. Fifth amendment.
Mr. NiTTLE. The article states that your files in the Women
Strike for Peace contain the names of 6,000 local adherents.
From whom did you obtain this list of persons?
Mrs. Posner. I stand on my constitutional rights and invoke
still again the fifth amendment.
Mr. NiTTLE. Did you receive any listings from any person or persons
known to you to be a member of the Communist Party?
Mrs. Posner. The fifth amendment.
Mr. NiTTLE. Did you receive listings from any organization
known to you to be Communist-controlled, or designated as subversive
or Communist by the Attorney General or by any other
official agency of Government?
Mrs. Posner. I stand on the fifth.
Mr. NiTTLE. Did you obtain any of the 6,000 names which are
reported to be in your files from Mrs. Dagmar Wilson or her Washington
office?
Mrs. Posner. I stand on the fifth.
Mr. NiTTLE. As office chairman, Exhibit 1 states your duties to
be that of typing, mimeographing, filing, taking minutes of meetings,
and so forth.
I assume that you have had access to all of the records in the headquarters
of Women Strike for Peace. Is that not correct?
Mrs. Posner. I stand on the fifth.
Mr. NiTTLE. Have you transmitted any information which is
contained in your files to any person or persons known to you to be
a member of the Communist Party?
Mrs. Posner. I stand on the fifth.
Mr. NiTTLE. I hand you a photograph which is marked for identification
as Posner Exhibit No. 4.
This is a photograph of the picket line estabhshed at the White
House in Washington on April 28, 1962, by Women Strike for Peace.
Do you not appear in that photograph as the second person in the
line from the right carrying a sign, "WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO
TEST"?
(Witness conferred with counsel.)
Mrs. Posner. The fifth.
Mr. NiTTLE. What is your response to the inquiry as to whether
you appear on that picket line at the White House?
Mrs. Posner. The same response as before, I stand on the fifth.
(Document marked "Posner Exhibit No. 4" follows:)