Mr. O’Connell. The Mundt-Nixon bill was combined, I think it was combined by a proposal made by several of the Senators over there and also the McCarran Act, I can’t remember all the things that went on in connection with it now, but I think it became popularly called the McCarran Act, if I remember correctly.
Mr. Tavenner. The McCarran-Wood bill.
Mr. O’Connell. Yes. I think the language became the Internal Security Act.
Mr. Velde. Who composed the committee?
Mr. O’Connell. Actually the executive officers were myself as chairman, Robert Silverstein of the National Lawyers Guild as secretary, and Bruce Waybur, who was an official or an organizational employee of the United Electrical Workers[1] who was treasurer of the organization, and then the group was sponsored by various outstanding prominent individuals throughout the country. I can’t remember all of them now and all who from time to time——
Mr. Velde. If I remember correctly, after the bill was passed and became law there was a committee to repeal the McCarran-Wood Act, was there not?
Mr. O’Connell. I think there was, but I had nothing to do with it.
Mr. Tavenner. You had no part in it?
Mr. O’Connell. I had no part in it. I went back. I think Professor Chafee [Zechariah Chafee, Jr.] at Harvard and some others organized a committee to repeal the act after that, but I went back to Montana and I had nothing to do with it.
Mr. Tavenner. Will you tell the committee, please, whether or not you became regional director for the International Workers Order during the period of time——