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2096 COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT Mr. NiTTLE. Will you tell us the approximate date when you organized a group of Women for Peace? Mrs. Meyers. I don't think you understand what I said previously when you asked me that question. 1 did not organize the Women for Peace, Mr. NiTTLE. Did you participate in its organization? Mrs. Meyers. I participated in activities and study with a group of women. At that time, when we were studying and when we were talking and when we were coming to a conclusion to participate further, and in further communities, we did say that, as women who were interested in peace and called Women for Peace, we were going to do such and such. Mr. NiTTLE. Did you participate in the creation of this local organization, Women for Peace, in Long Island, for tlie purpose of sending representatives to county groups who were acting on behalf of Women Strike for Peace of New York? Mrs. Meyers. If I have gone to otlier communities, it has never been as a representative for anything except a point of view, and my own point of view. Usually, people went because they were free for time or in the evening or they felt particularly motivated on a particular program on which they were talking or groups of people were talking. Mr. NiTTLE. Posner Exhibit No. 1, Structure for Women Strike for Peace, Metropolitan New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, sets up a Central Coordinating Committee, which appears to be the executive and policymaking body of the group. Appointments to the Central Coordinating Committee of the New York group of Women Strike for Peace are accomplished in this way. Local groups of Women for Peace or Women Strike for Peace are set up in various communities, who are then entitled to choose representatives to send to a county meeting of Women Strike for Peace, ^^and 4he county meeting selects representatives who represent tlie county group on the Central Coordinating Committee. This group of Women for Peace, of which I think you state you are a participating member Mrs. Meyers. I participate when the action—when I am particularly motivated in the action and study Mr. NiTTLE. I did not ask what motivated you. you were a participating member. Would you please question? I asked if answer the Mrs. Meyers. If an organization doesn't agree, in which you join and unjoin, I don't see how I can answer the question of whether or not I am a member. When I am there, I iim very anxious and excited about a particular program and a particular interest that I have. Mr. NiTTLE. Would you please tell us approximately when your group was first organized? Mrs. Meyers. Can I tell you when I first became interested? Mr. NiTTLE. Yes, would you tell us that? Mrs. Meyers. Yes, I certainly will. I think it was October 31 that we heard of the first Russian explosion in the new nuclear tests that the Russians were starting. At the time I was terribly disturbed because I had heard so much—I heard and read — Mr. NiTTLE. I am not interested in the details of that. I simply asked you the date when you first met with Women for Peace, and you stated October 31; did you not? —
COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT 2097 Mrs. Meyers. No. I said October 31 was when I became disturbed and realized I wanted to do something immediately. The next day Mr. NiTTLE. You became disturbed following the breaking of the moratorium by Soviet Russia in August 1961, at which time they resumed nuclear testing. Between the time that the Russians tested and before the United States resumed nuclear testing, you found you were disturbed and you met with a group of Women for Peace? Mrs. Meyers. I am sorry, sir. You will have to repeat that. I don't understand you. Mr. NiTTLE. Well, I am trying to understand what you are saying. I think if you will simply answer the questions as directly as you can, we may both avoid confusion. Mrs. Meyers. Would you reword the question, please, or repeat the question? Mr. NiTTLE. Would you plainly state the time when you first met with Women for Peace in your community? Mrs. Meyers. The first time I met with Women for Peace was not in my community. Mr. NiTTLE. Was it after the announcement by Mrs. Dagmar Wilson in September of the formation of her group known as Women Strike for Peace? Mrs. Meyers. No, sir. Mr. NiTTLE. Was it before that occasion? Mrs. Meyers. In September? I am sorry. I thought you meant in response—was it after—would you repeat the date? I am sorry. Mr, NiTTLE. Mrs. Meyers, with a master's degree from-— ^well, I wiU withdraw that statement. Mr. BouDiN. I think it well that counsel withdrew his statement, Mr. NiTTLE. Let me repeat the question. Did you meet with Women for Peace prior or subsequent to the announcement by Mrs. Dagmar Wilson of the formation of her organization, Women Strike for Peace? Mrs. Meyers. The first time I met—I met with any women who I know were working for peace—was on November 1 of the year. Whether it was prior or subsequent to—you said her call was September, so, therefore, it was subsequent to that. Mr. NiTTLE. Does your group send a representative to any county group of Women Strike for Peace? Mrs. Meyers. Our group tries to get one of us to attend any county meeting or any New York meeting that is held. Sometimes it is pretty much left at the last minute, that a child is sick or a husband doesn't come home. Mr. NiTTLE. The answer is, your group does send a representative to the county groups? Mrs. Meyers. When there is one available, we certainly do. Mr. BouDiN. I think it would be helpful when the witness is in the middle of an answer that she not be interrupted, even by counsel trying to be helpful. I will make no further comments on that at this point. I hope I won't have to in the future. Mr. NiTTLE. The committee's investigation indicates that you are one of the leaders responsible for making arrangements for the New York group of Women Strike for Peace to take part in the White House picket line on January 15, 1962. Is this correct?
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