COMMUNIST INFILTRATION & ACTIV

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Excerpt from Communist Infiltration and Activities in Newark, N. J: Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-Fifth Congress, Second Session, September 3, 4, and 5, 1958On September 3 - 5, 1958, in Newark, N. J the Committee on Un American Activities held additional public hearings in its continuing investigation of current Communist tactics of infiltration and the extent, character, and objects of Communist Party propaganda activities in the United States.Sixteen witnesses testified in the hearings. Three were cooperative, the remaining thirteen were antagonistic and defiant.Robert J. Dixon, J r., who had been the president of a local of the Communist-controlled United Electrical Workers Union prior to his break with the Communist Party in 1950, identified eight of the un cooperative witnesses who were subpenaed to testify in the hearings as persons known by him to have been members of the Communist Party. All eight invoked the first and fifth amendments when asked if they were presently, or had ever been, members of the party.Bernard Zick, another former Communist who had broken with the conspiracy in 1950, identified six of the unfriendly witnesses as per sons known to him to have been members of the party when he was active in it. These six witnesses also relied on the first and fifth amendments when asked about present and past Communist Party membership.Dennis James, who had served as an fbi undercover operative in the Labor Youth League for several years prior to his appearance in the Newark hearings, testified on the activities of that organization in the area and also about the activities of some of the uncooperative witnesses in the Labor Youth League, which is the youth arm of the Communist Party.Louis Malinow, Kate Heck, and Emanuel Cantor invoked the first and fifth amendments when questioned about present Communist Party membership and also about their activities in the Communist Party underground in the years 1952 - 57.Mr. Irving Fishman, deputy collector of customs, New York City, testified in the hearings on the extensive dissemination of Communist propaganda of foreign origin within the New Jersey area.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.