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2114 COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT Mr. Tuck. I have no questions, Mr. Doyle. I have no questions. Mr. Tuck. Mr. Chairman, may I suggest that we recess the committee. Mr. Doyle. The pubhc hearings will stand in recess until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning in this room. (Whereupon, at 1:05 p.m., Tuesday, December 11, 1962, the public hearings were recessed, to be resumed at 10 a.m. on the following day.) AFTERNOON SESSION, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1962 EXECUTIVE SESSION ^ The subcommittee of the Committee on Un-American Activities met in executive session at 2:45 p.m., in Room 219, Cannon House Office Building, Washington, D.C., Hon. Clyde Doyle (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Subcommittee members present: Representatives Clyde Doyle, of California, and William M. Tuck, of Virginia. Staff members present: Francis J. McNamara, director; Frank S, Tavenner, Jr., general counsel; Alfred M. Nittle, counsel; and Raymond T. Collins, investigator. Mr. Doyle. Mrs. Neidenberg, will you please raise your right hand and be sworn. Do you solemnly swear you will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Mrs. Neidenberg. I do. Mr. Doyle. Thank you. Please be seated. TESTIMONY OF ELSIE NEIDENBERG, ACCOMPANIED BY COUNSEL, TELFORD TAYLOR Mr. NiTTLE. Would you state your full name and residence for the record, please? Mrs. Neidenberg. Elsie Neidenberg, 250 Central Avenue, Lawrence, Long Island, New York. Mr. Nittle. Have you at any time previously resided at 389 Mulry Lane, Hempstead, Long Island? Mrs. Neidenberg. I never resided in Hempstead. Mr. Nittle. Have you resided in the area of Long Island? Mrs. Neidenberg. Yes, I have. Mr. Nittle. Where in Long Island did you reside and would you state the time or period of your residence? Mrs. Neidenberg. Well, possibly I could clarify something so we won't have to go into this. Mulry Lane happens to be in Lawrence, also, and I did live at 389 Mulry Lane. It was not in Hempstead. I mean I feel we go through a lot of questions which may just not get us anywhere on this. Mr. Nittle. That was Mulry Lane, Lawrence, Long Island? Mrs. Neidenberg. That's right. Mr. Nittle. Would you state the date and place of your birth? Mrs. Neidenberg. I was born in Moscow, Russia, February 2, 1918. ' Released by the committee and ordered to be printed.
COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT 2115 Mr. Taylor. Could I be identified on the record? Mr. NiTTLE. Are you represented by counsel? Mrs. Neidenberg. Yes, sir. Mr. NiTTLE. Would counsel please identify himself for the record, stating his name and office address? Mr. Taylor. Telford Taylor, 400 Madison Avenue, New York City. Mr. NiTTLE. Are you presently a citizen of the United States? Mrs. Neidenberg. Yes I am, sir. Mr. Nittle. Would you state for the record when and by what process you acquired citizenship? Mrs. Neidenberg. Sometime in 1928 under my father's papers. Mr. Nittle. Would you relate the extent of your formal education? Mrs. NeidExNberg. High school graduate. Mr. Nittle. Are you Mrs. Louis Neidenberg? Mrs. Neidenberg. I am. Mr. Nittle. What is your present occupation? Mrs. Neidenberg. Presently I am a housewife and mother. I also do several other things like work in the hospital to help the needy and those that are ill. I help the women in the Golden Age Club, and actually this is my current occupation, as a volunteer, I might add. Mr. Nittle. Are you a member of an organization known as Women Strike for Peace? Mrs. Neidenberg. I decline to answer this and invoke the privilege of the fifth amendment and I also feel that this question has no pertinency, nor does this committee have the authority under the inquiries that they should be making, I guess I should say, and to answer this question would be an infringement on my constitutional rights. Mr. Nittle. When you state that you are invoking the fifth amendment, do you invoke the self-incrimination clause of that amendment? Mrs. Neidenberg. Well, if it is needed in this instance I am. Mr. Nittle. The question is, Are you presently invoking it? Mrs. Neidenberg. Yes, I am. Mr. Nittle. You must make the decision as to whether it is needed. Mrs. Neidenberg. Yes, I am. I feel, considering the presentation that was made at the open hearing this morning, that I would have to invoke this privilege. Mr. Nittle. Do you feel that if you were to answer this particular question it might subject you to a criminal prosecution? Mrs. Neidenberg. I believe so. Mr. Nittle. Mrs. Neidenberg, it is the committee's information that on January 22, 1962, a meeting took place of the officers and members of a New York group of the Women Strike for Peace organization, at which a report was made by the chairman of the Finance Committee, who reported, among other things, on the amount collected for train fares to transport Women Strike for Peace demonstrators to Washington for the White House picketing demonstration on January 15, 1962. It is the committee's information that 3'^ou were in attendance at that meeting of the New York group of Women Strike for Peace. Did you, in fact, attend that meeting? Mrs. Neidenberg. I stand on the previous answer.
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