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2094 COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES EST THE PEACE MOVEMENT Mr. Doyle. I think we better proceed, with all due respect to you and to the statement I made. Mrs. Meyers. T think, Mr. Doyle, you are very interested in knowing the kind of women who are involved in Women Strike for Peace, and I think perhaps my telling this will elucidate Mr. Tuck. Mr. Chairman, we are interested in obtaining information in response to inquiries, to questions, enunciated by counsel. Mr. Doyle. We are sorry, but we just can't digress from our program. We have certain witnesses and a limited time. I know you will cooperate. Mrs. Meyers. I certainly will, Mr. Doyle, but knowing j^ou and your reputation and your agreement with many points of our program, I thought you would like to know me as I was 12 days ago before I was subpenaed by this committee, because I am a different me. Mr. Doyle. I ^vill be glad to have you tell me outside of the committee, then. Mrs. Meyers. That is just the point I would like to make, sir, that me answering your questions inside this committee cannot be the same me that is answering questions of you; and what I do outside this committee room, I think you and I would find mutually very helpful to us. Mr. Doyle. I know there are problems for all of us. I will have to ask counsel to just proceed and for you to cooperate as far as you feel it is right in answering. Mr. NiTTLE. Will you state your full name and residence for the record, please? Mrs. Meyers. Ruth Meyers, 3 The Tulips, Roslyn, N.Y. Mr. NiTTLE, Would you state the date and place of your birth? Mrs. Meyers. July 7, 1923, New York City. Mr. NiTTLE. You are Mrs. William Meyers, are you not? Mrs. Meyers. Yes, I am. Mr. NiTTLE. Would you relate the extent of your formal education? Mrs. Meyers. I was graduated in 1940 from Walton High School. I received a bachelor of arts degree in 1944 from Hunter College and a master of science in education in 1958 from Hofstra College. Mr. NiTTLE. What is your present occupation? Mrs. Meyers. I am a housewife, sir. Mr. NiTTLE. I neglected to ask whether you are represented by counsel. Mrs. Meyers. Ably. Mr. NiTTLE. Would counsel kindly identify himself for the record, stating his name and office address? Mr. BouDiN. Leonard B. Boudin, 30 East 42d Street, New York. Mr. NiTTLE. Have you in the past been a teacher? Mrs. Meyers. No, sir. Mr. NiTTLE. Did I understand you to state that you had a master of science in education? Mrs. Meyers. Right. Mr. NiTTLE. May I ask what is the present occupation of your husband? Mrs. Meyers. He is an attorney. Mr. NiTTLE. The last witness' husband is also an attorney, is that not correct?
COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT 2095 Mrs. Meyers. I am here, sir, to testify on me and my activities, sir. I learned as much as you did. Mr. NiTTLE. Did you know the prior witness, Mrs. Blanche Posner? Mrs. Meyers. I will have to insist, sir, that I am here to testify on myself and my relationship to Women Strike for Peace and not as it affects any other individual, because I am involved in Women Strike for Peace, not because of the individuals involved, but because the manner of the program which it does promote. Mr. NiTTLE. Mrs. Blanche Posner, according to the public records and also the committee's information, is the Office Committee chairman of Women Strike for Peace. It is important to know, in our investigation of this subject today, whether you, as a member of Women Strike for Peace, know Mrs. Posner. Mrs. Meyers. If I can be helpful in telling you, sir, my role in Women Strike for Peace, I will. But other people's roles, I could not evaluate or teU you at this time. Mr. NiTTLE. Are you presently a member of a group known as Women Strike for Peace? Mrs. Meyers. No, sir. Women Strike for Peace has no membership. I am associated with a group of women in my own community that are called Women for Peace, and we have acted in situations and activities under the banner of Women Strike for Peace when we agreed to the necessity and importance of when we were going to learn something from this activity. Mr. NiTTLE.x Would you be described as an "adherent" of Women Strike for Peace? That was the expression used by the New York Times in describing the type of membership which Women Strike for Peace enjoys. Mrs. Meyers. Well, could you explain to me what you mean by that question? Mr. NiTTLE. Perhaps this will help elucidate the inquiry. I show you Posner Exhibit No. 1 , which is the structural plan of Women Strike for Peace, Metropolitan New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Have you seen that plan before? (Document handed to witness.) (Witness conferred with counsel.) Mrs. Meyers. I did not actually see this plan. It was reported by a woman who had seen it and talked about it and discussed it. Mr. BouDiN. Shall I return it to you, Mr. Nittle? Mr. NiTTLE. All right. Thank you. You are famUiar, I understand, with the structural organization of Women Strike for Peace as evidenced by this plan? Mrs. Meyers. I am familiar to the extent of the role that I play in it. I must say that I was not particularly interested in the structure of Women Strike for Peace. I was more involved in my own community activities and what role I can do as positive. I felt that structure, other than the old telephone, was not much of what I was interested in. Mr. NiTTLE. When did you organize a group known as Women for Peace in your community? Mrs. Meyers. I am trying to think of when we started using the term, because it was just a term that was convenient to use when we were studying and working together. I can tell you when I became involved and interested in involving myself in studying a more active role in peace, if this would be a help.
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