Mr. Moulder. Very well.
Will you call Mr. Johnston as a witness?
TESTIMONY OF HAROLD JOHNSTON, ACCOMPANIED BY HIS COUNSEL, JAY G. SYKES—Resumed
Mr. Moulder. Mr. Johnston, you were on the stand yesterday to testify in answer to questions propounded to you by Mr. Wheeler, and the Chair asked you the question or a similar question, as to whether or not you approved or disapproved of Communist infiltration, influence, and domination of the labor union of which you are a member. And you said that you hadn’t had time to give the question any thought or consideration. We felt that by giving you sufficient time and recalling you today you could give us an answer to that question.
(The witness confers with his counsel.)
Mr. Johnston. Mr. Chairman, I feel that the wording of that you just now mentioned was not the wording of the question yesterday. It was a little different.
But, in answer to the question you just now raised to me, there is only one thing I can do under that, and that is to—if I answer that either way it would tend to incriminate me, and I have to invoke the fifth amendment.
Mr. Moulder. We will rephrase the question in this way:
Do you approve or disapprove of Communist domination of any union?
(The witness confers with his counsel.)