Mr. Tavenner. Yes, sir.
Mr. Scherer. Do you mean the Daily Worker can be wrong?
Mr. O’Connell. The reason I feel positive about that is I do not know Dr. DuBois, I have never met him, and I don’t know him at all, and I know I was not on any panel where he talked. I know I didn’t do that. Marc of course I knew real well, but I certainly don’t remember speaking any place with Marc. I knew him.
Mr. Tavenner. Did you speak, regardless of who accompanied you, on a program sponsored by the Freedom Crusade Congress?
Mr. O’Connell. What date was that?
Mr. Tavenner. In January 1949.
Mr. O’Connell. I am positive I did not.
The other reason I feel sure about that is I left the State of Washington in October 1949, and I went back to Montana, and I know during that particular period I was in the State of Montana and my wife and I were living with her folks in Great Falls. I know my financial circumstances at that time were very slim and that I am sure, I am just positive that I never spoke at any such panel at that time.
Mr. Tavenner. A report is made by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities that the Daily Worker issue of June 23, 1937, page 1, carried a letter addressed by you to David Leeds, business manager of the Daily Worker, official organ of the Communist Party, in which you state:
I feel that the Daily Worker is America’s outstanding daily labor paper and has done much during these past crucial labor years to bring true and accurate accounts of labor conditions throughout the entire country to the attention of the people.