Mr. Tavenner. I am not certain which union.
Mr. O’Connell. I know there was a party by the name of Jackins and that he was a leader in some one of the unions out there and my best recollection is he was in the Boeing union.
Mr. Tavenner. We have testimony before our committee that Harvey Jackins taught at this school and I think the record should also show Harvey Jackins was identified as a member of the Communist Party by Elizabeth Boggs Cohen and Leonard Basil Wildman. He was cited for contempt of the House of Representatives for refusal to answer questions during the June 1954 hearings in Seattle and has been convicted by a Federal court.
Mr. O’Connell. In that connection I want to—I notice in that schedule that my name is listed as teaching a course in political——
Mr. Tavenner. Yes. Labor’s political role, 1948.
Mr. O’Connell. I never taught such a class or roll or schedule. Never appeared or anything else.
Mr. Tavenner. Well, you were enrolled as a teacher, were you not, in the labor school?
Mr. O’Connell. I was not. I never taught a class in the labor school, never appeared in the labor school.
Mr. Tavenner. What is your explanation of the advertising of the curriculum with you as a teacher?
Mr. O’Connell. My explanation is really easy. Mr. Daschbach got that schedule out and later called me and asked me if I would do it and I refused and told him I didn’t want to do it.