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2104 COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT The article states, among other things, that: WOMEN from all over the nation are being called to participate in a 24-hour vigil in front of the White House on [sic] 1 p.m. on the day following the announcement of testing. The action was made known last week by the Women Strike for Peace at their first N.Y. report meeting on their recent delegation to the Geneva Disarmament Conference. The meeting, -ttended by more than 1,000, was held at the Community Church, 35 St. and Park Ave. The vigil will be a somber protest against President Kennedy's decision to test, the sponsors of the action said. The article describes the meeting held at the Community Church and summarizes the substance of statements made at the meeting. Aniong others who are reported to have spoken was a Lila Hoffman. Lila is spelled L-i-l-a. Mrs. Hoffman. I am the same Lyla Hoffman. (Document marked "Hoffman Exhibit No. 1" and retained in committee files.) Mr. NiTTLE. Are you the person to whom reference was made in the last paragraph? Mrs. Hoffman. I am. Mr. NiTTLE. And did you speak at the Community Church meeting on that occasion? Mrs. Hoffman. I did. Mr. NiTTLE. Are you an active member of Women Strike for Peace? Mrs. Hoffman. I am a very active member of Women Strike for Peace. (Witness conferred with counsel.) Mr. NiTTLE. You are a little more than a participant, are you not? Mrs. Hoffman. An active participant, as I said. Mr. NiTTLE. You are in fact a member, or were in fact a member, of the Central Coordinating Committee of Women Strike for Peace and you represent Nassau County, which includes the Long Island area; is that not correct? Mrs. Hoffman. That is correct. Mr. NiTTLE. So that you are a member of the Central Coordinating Committee of Women Strike for Peace? Mrs. Hoffman. I said I was. Mr. NiTTLE. The Central Coordinating C^ommittee is the executive group and the policymaking group of Women Strike for Peace, is it not? Mrs. Hoffman. Policy is not made by the Coordinating Committee. Actions are planned, discussions are held, communications are passed. Our policy is very simple. It was set up at Ann Arbor during the summer. Mr. NiTTLE. I am not asking you what your policy was. Mrs. Hoffman. But policy, as such, is not set, nor is it changed, by the Central Coordinating Committee. All actions which are planned, are planned within that policy, which is an excellent policy. Most people in our Government subscribe to it, also. Mr. NiTTLE. How was your appointment to the Central Coordinating Committee of the New York organization of Women Strike for Peace effected? Mrs. Hoffman. I was not appointed. I heard you read the Structure a short while ago. We have been more or less following that
COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES EST THE PEACE MOVEMENT 2105 Structure, which means that from my local community, which is Great Neck, I was asked to represent them in Nassau County, I and some others. At Nassau County some people were chosen to be the representatives to the New York group. Therefore, I am one of the representatives to the New York group. Mr. NiTTLE. What is the title of your local group? Mrs. Hoffman. Great Neck Women Strike for Peace. Mr. NiTTLE. That is the group which sent you to the Central Coordinating Committee? Mrs. Hoffman. Great Neck Women Strike for Peace. They do excellent work. Mr. NiTTLE. Did you participate in the organization of that group? Mrs. Hoffman. I did. Mr. NiTTLE. Did you form that group in order to form a supporting organization for Mrs. Dagmar Wilson's national group of Women Strike for Peace? Mrs. Hoffman. I did not form that group. I, together with many other women, helped to form that group as part of Women Strike for Peace. Mr. NiTTLE. Did you also engage or participate in the formation of that group in support of the New York organization of Women Strike for Peace? Mrs. Hoffman. It didn't quite work out that way. As 1 recall, the local group—and when I say "group," you know we have very loose connections, just the telephone connections at the beginning and later we began to meet together in informal ways and it has changed- I believe that the local groups, certainly ours, and most others, began to function in various ways, because all local groups function in their own way and choose their own methods of working. But I believe that the local group began before the New York group. I am not quite certain as to exactly how that operated, but when you are talking about the Central Coordinating Committee that was set up a few months after November 1, which is when we women began to feel that we could do something about war and peace. (Witness conferred with counsel.) Mr. NiTTLE. It appears on Posner Exhibit No. 1, that is, the structural plan for Women Strike for Peace, Metropolitan New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, a copy of which I hand you, that the Central Coordinating Committee is composed of two representatives from each county or State. However, the structural plan specifically sets forth the area representation as being composed of two representatives, each, from Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Westchester, Long Island, and the States of Connecticut and New Jersey. It would seem that the New York State representation for the districts named, and to which it is limited, authorizes 12 representatives, whereas the entire States of Connecticut and New Jersey appear to be allowed only two representatives each. Mrs. Hoffman. Does that seem unfair? Shall I explain that? Mr. NiTTLE. I wanted to inquire whether there was any reason of policy for limiting the entire States of Connecticut and New Jersey to two delegates each. Mrs. Hoffman. The reasons which I understood, and I did attend one or two of the meetings setting up the Structure—and I may 93367 O—63 5 —
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