These names are somewhat scattered. In order to expedite the business, I think I should go down through those that I have not previously mentioned to you, and make their identification so that we can get on to other matters which I know counsel wishes to cover.
Mr. Tavenner. Please proceed.
(The witness confers with his counsel.)
Mr. Dennett. Long ago, I knew a man by the name of Revels Cayton, who was the head of the International Labor Defense.
C-a-y-t-o-n is the last name, Revels—R-e-v-e-l-s, the first name.
Later, I knew Mr. Cayton as an official in the Marine Cooks and Stewards of the Pacific union.[8]
Way back in the unemployed days I knew a man by the name of Iver Moe, I-v-e-r M-o-e.
Iver Moe’s importance and significance is that he led an unemployed demonstration in Anacortes to a privately owned store which had foodstuffs in its stock, and the populace of Anacortes helped themselves. Mr. Moe was one of the leaders of that group, and was prosecuted for it. He was a member of the Communist Party at the time he did this. He thought he was doing the right thing. And, as a consequence, he was put on trial and was convicted and sentenced, and I know that he was turned against the Communist Party as a consequence of that experience.
(At this point Representative Harold H. Velde returned to the hearing room.)
Mr. Dennett. Another person known to me in the unemployed days was a lady by the name of Mrs. Harter, H-a-r-t-e-r. Her significance to me is that she later became the wife of Alex Noral, before he left here. He took her with him as his wife to California.