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2116 COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT Mr. NiTTLE. It was also reported at that meeting that $18,974.91 had been collected for the stated purpose of conducting the picketing demonstration at the White House. Do you recall that report? Mrs. Neidenberg. I stand on the fifth amendment. Mr. NiTTLE. Also at that meeting the then treasurer submitted her resignation, whereupon you, Elsie Neidenberg, and two other persons volunteered to serve as co-treasurers. Would you tell the committee whether this information is correct? Mrs. Neidenberg. I decline to answer this and invoke my privilege of the fifth amendment. Mr. NiTTLE. WhUe you have served as co-treasurer, have any funds of the New York group been forwarded for the use of the Washington headquarters of Women Strike for Peace? Mrs. Neidenberg. I must decline to answer this for the same reason. Mr. Nittle. During your tenure as co-treasurer, has any financial report ever been rendered by your organization to the Washington headquarters of Women Strike for Peace? Mrs. Neidenberg. Since I have laid no claim to any organization, I must again de'cline to answer this question and invoke my privilege of the fifth amendment. Mr. Nittle. Did you take part in the White House demonstrations in Washington on January 15, 1962? Mrs. Neidenberg. I decline to answer that for the same reason. Mr. Nittle. It is the committee's information that approximately 1,700 women participated in the White House demonstration on January 15, 1962. Approximately 1,450 of the 1,700 women arrived by train on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and several women of your New York group visited various congressional offices during the afternoon of that day. It appears that the vast majority of the women who demonstrated before the White House were from the New York area rather than from the Washington area, which is the headquarters of Women Strike for Peace. Mrs. Neidenberg. May I just speak to Mr. Taylor? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Mrs. Neidenberg. I decline to answer for the same reason. Mr. Nittle. Would you tell us how many fares were purchased by the New York group for transportation to the Washington demonstration? Mrs. Neidenberg. I refuse to answer for the same reason. Mr. Nittle. Were not approximately 1,450 fares purchased from the Pennsylvania Railroad? Mrs. Neidenberg. I decline to answer for the stated reason. Mr. Nittle. Do you have any knowledge as to whether or not there was any coordination on this occasion betw^een the New York group of Women Strike for Peace and the Washington headquarters of Women Strike for Peace? Mrs. Neidenberg. I invoke the same privilege. Mr. Nittle. I hand you a copy of the organizational plan previously marked for identification as Posner Exhibit No. 1, titled "Structure for Women Strike for Peace, Metropolitan N.Y. New Jersey Conn." You wUl note on page 3 of that exhibit there are established certain work committees, among which appears the Finance Committee, consisting of a chairman pro tem and three
— COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT 2117 treasurers, together with accountants, fund raisers, and so forth. When you volunteered on January 22, 1962, to serve as co-treasurer, had Posner Exhibit 1 been adopted as the official plan of organization of your group. Women Strike for Peace? Mrs. Neidenberg. I stand on the fifth amendment, my privilege not to answer. Mr. NiTTLE. Are you presently serving in the capacity of cotreasurer of Women Strike for Peace? Mrs. Neidenberg. I decline to answer for the same reason. Mr. Nittle. It is the committee's information that an Elsie Neidenberg, then of 389 Mulry Lane, Lawrence, Hempstead, Long Island, on August 27, 1946, signed a Communist Party Independent Nominating Petition for the New York election. I hand you a photostatic copy of that petition, marked for identification as Neidenberg Exhibit No. 1, upon which the signature of Elsie Neidenberg appears. Are you the Elsie Neidenberg whose signature appears upon that petition? Mrs. Neidenberg. I don't see the pertinency of this question to any inquiry the committee is authorized to make, and to be required to answer is an infringement of my constitutional rights. (Document marked "Neidenberg Exhibit No. 1" and retained in committee files.) Mr. Nittle. You will note that the petition states in its printed form that I intend to support at the ensuing election, and I do hereby nominate the following named persons as candidates * * * and that I select the name COMMUNIST PARTY as the name of the independent body making the nominations * * *. Mrs. Neidenberg. I again state that I don't see the pertinency of this question to the inquiry and I decline to answer and invoke my privilege under the fifth amendment. Mr. NiTTLE. Were you a member of the Communist Party at the time you executed that petition? Mrs. Neidenberg. I decline to answer and give the same reasons. Mr. NiTTLE. Are you now a member of the Communist Party? Mrs. Neidenberg. Same answer. I cannot answer and I invoke my privilege. Mr. Doyle. Counsel, are you going to state to the witness the pertinency of that question? She has raised that point. Mrs. Neidenberg. I must say, Mr. Doyle, if I may, that I heard the open hearings this morning and I heard what both you and the counsel here had to say, but I still don't see or didn't feel that, in this particular instance where I am concerned, what I may or may not have done has anything to do with the peace movement today, if this is what the inquiry is about. Mr. Doyle. Do I understand then that you don't think that whether or not you were a member of the Communist Party is pertinent to our hearings? Mrs. Neidenberg. I don't think so and I also, as I said, take the privilege of the fifth amendment not to testify against myself at the same time. Mr. Doyle. Having explained to you, or raised for your further information, why I feel that the question is pertinent, I instruct you to answer the question.
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