Mr. Tavenner. What date did you become a member?
Mr. Dennett. Some time in 1942, I think it was. Yes, it was in 1942.
Mr. Tavenner. Will you tell the committee, please, if any members of that union were known to you to be members of the Communist Party.
Mr. Dennett. I have this recollection about that:
Remember now all of that transpired more than 7 years ago. I have been expelled from the party for the past 7 years, going on 8.
My recollection is positive about 2 persons. There are others about whom I have a very indistinct recollection, and I would be afraid to be positive about. But the two that I can be positive about—one’s name was Andrew Marshall. He was referred to in Barbara Hartle’s testimony as Andy. She did not finish the name. He was well known to me.
Another person was Alex Harding. H-a-r-d-i-n-g.
I know that there were around 6 or 7 active members of the Communist Party in the steelworkers at that time, but I am so uncertain about the other names that I would hesitate to mention them for fear I might be wrong and might speak of the wrong person.
Mr. Tavenner. There are other matters that I wanted to obtain information about, but there is apparently not time to do it.
I wanted particularly to inquire into examples of discipline exercised by the Communist Party over its members. We shall not have time to cover that even in a general way, but I know from what you have said during the course of your testimony that on a number of occasions the Communist Party disciplined you. You have told us of two occasions so far. I wish you would tell the committee of other examples of discipline.