Mr. Tavenner. 1947.
Mr. O’Connell. I think it was either listed earlier or later but it had been attacked by some of the labor organizations long before it was listed, it had been attacked by some, particularly I think the Central Labor Council in Seattle, and had been attacked by other groups out there.
Mr. Velde. Your suspicion that it was a Communist organization was not the reason you didn’t teach the course?
Mr. O’Connell. I wouldn’t want to say now that is it. I know at the time when he called me about it I objected to the word ideological. I remember that expressly and I objected to the fact that I was qualified in no way to talk about labor’s role in 1948. I was not a member of a trade union, I had not been involved in labor organization or anything of the kind. I know I didn’t teach there and I didn’t——
Mr. Tavenner. What was the meaning of “coordinator” after your name?
Mr. O’Connell. I don’t know. Maybe if you let me look at it—I don’t know what it means.
Mr. Tavenner. Did Mr. Daschbach discuss the title of coordinator with you?
Mr. O’Connell. No; he certainly did not.
Mr. Tavenner. Mr. Chairman, I think the record should show at this time the Communist affiliation of other teachers in this school—Theodore Raymond Astley.
Mr. O’Connell. While you are doing that I wonder if I could say this. When I spoke up and said I knew Mr. Daschbach was a Smith Act defendant there was some remonstrance from over here where the press is located and I wanted to point out I left the State of Washington in 1949 and Mr. Daschbach did not become a Smith Act defendant, if I remember correctly, until 1954.