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

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.