Mr. Tavenner. Will you now count the number of those whose signatures appear on the list?
Mrs. Hartle. Yes; 33.
Mr. Tavenner. I have kept a record of the number of those identified by you as members of the Communist Party. Out of the total list of 33 names, you have identified 19.
Mrs. Hartle further testified that while she was in the underground of the Communist Party, which meant after 1950——
Mr. O’Connell. Where is that?
Mr. Tavenner. It is on the same page.
I received a brief description of what this Independent Party was. I was told that it had been impossible to place candidates for the Communist Party on the election ballot and that steps were taken then to put Communist candidates on an Independent Party ticket and take this means of bringing the Communist program into the election campaign.
The result was that we furnished to Mrs. Hartle a list of 49 persons certified by an affidavit to have attended the nominating convention of the Independent Party. Mrs. Hartle was asked to examine that list. Of the 49 persons appearing on the list, she identified 36 as known to her to be members of the Communist Party.
Mr. O’Connell. That list, of course, is all 1952 with reference to the Progressive Party in 1950, with reference to the so-called Independent Party?
Mr. Tavenner. That is right.
Mr. O’Connell. My testimony is that I left the State of Washington in October 1949.
Mr. Tavenner. That is correct.