Table of Contents
Index (607)
Preface and House Resolution #10 (iii)
Opening statement and Louis Francis Budenz [Professor, Fordham] (1)
Former managing editor of the Daily Worker, gives lengthy testimony on Party policy,
theory and strategy, as well as subservience to Moscow. Identifies a range of Washington
and Seattle residents as Party members.
James Sullivan [former Speaker State House, State Senator] (61)
Discusses infiltration of Old Age Pension Union by the Party.
Homer Huson [former Executive Secretary of Washington Pension Union] (76)
Details Communist takeover of the organization.
Ward F. Warren [longshoreman, former advertising director for New World] (83)
Discusses Communist influence on the paper, Pension Union and Washington
Commonwealth Federation. Identifies several people as members, including Hugh
DeLacy, John Caughlan and Howard Costigan.
Clifford A. Stone (95)
Discusses Pension Union, Bill Pennock, Caughlan.
Anne M. Stone (99)
Kathryn Fogg [former State legislator] (101)
Discuss Pennock, William Dobbins, N.P. Atkinson, many others.
Sarah Mary Eldredge [former Democratic Party official] (113)
Similarly long list of names and Communist involvement in Seattle politics.
Wilbert W. Cadle (122)
Former Party and Pension Union member, discusses Pennock and Communist control of
the latter
Manning Johnson [former Party activist] (130)
Had been active in Negro Labor Congress, discusses many national policies and members
of the Party. Details national Party organization at length.
Peter Hiller [former WA Party member] (157)
Manning Johnson continued (161)
Jess Fletcher [Building Service Employees Local 6] (171)
Discusses Communist influence on the Local, his own de facto membership. Discusses
ILWU, Pension Union, WCF
Judith Fletcher (197)
Nat Honig [former employee, Daily Worker] (203)
Discusses Trade Union Unity League, Comintern influence on CPUSA, time spent in
Russia, ILWU, Pension Union, Newspaper Guild.
Manning Johnson recalled (255)
Erla Honig [report, Star] (256)
Party and the Newspaper Guild.
Sarah K. Wall [former Chair, Aid to Dependent Children for WA State] (261)
Discusses Workers’ Alliance, Pension Union.
Harriet Riley [former Seattle YCL member] (266)
Identifies Bill Pennock, DeLacy, others as Party members
Fay Angel [former WPU member] (272)
Testifies about DeLacy, Dobbins, YCL activities
Sonia Simone [former interpreter in Russia] (278)
Testifies about life under Communism.
Deposition of Mary L. Gilbert [former WPU] (281)
Communist influence on Pension Union
Walter W. Churchill, Sr. [Boeing employee, former Builder Services member] (288)
Testifies on Party control of Local 6 leadership.
George Levich [Russian immigrant, ship officer] (290)
Testifies at length about conditions in Russia.
Ellsworth Clayton Wills [former State legislator] (324)
Pension Union and the Party.
Alfred Gordon [Former Executive Board member, Building Services Local 6] (344)
Discusses Pension Union.
Howard F. Smith [entrepreneur, former Party member] (337)
Testifies on various financial contributions he gave to Party and its alleged front groups.
Thomas F. Earling (357)
Identifies Bill Pennock, DeLacy as Party members.
Howard Costigan [Former leader WCF) (359)
Discusses shifts in Party line, WCF
Isabel Costigan [former Party member] (370)
Testifies about various Party meetings and fronts.
William E. McCarter [former WPU member] (377)
Discusses Everett Pension Union, Pennock, support of Pension Union for Harry Bridges
defense.
M.D. Adams [former WPU member] (384)
Discusses attempt to wrest control of Pension Union from the left.
Louis J. Larson [former Treasurer, WPU] (391)
Testifies about Pension Union, Northwest Labor School.
Ivy Dodd [former Party member, connected to Local 6] (397)
Ruth Hough [former WPU member] (400)
Communist influence in Pension Union
Frank Hough [former WPU member] (409)
Testifies about Party members in the Pension Union
H.C. Armstrong [former Party member, former Chair of Project Workers Union in early 1930s]
(415)
Discusses Workers’ Alliance, John Caughlan, University of Washington, Pension Union,
Communist influence in various unions.
Kathryn Fogg Recalled(444)
Jess Fletcher recalled (445)
Joseph Kornfeder [Former Socialist Party, then Communist Party member] (446)
Testifies about Party activities in the 1920s, Bridges, Building Service Employees, Lenin
School, Comintern, espionage.
Sarah Keller [Associated with WPU] (498)
Discusses Bill Pennock and the Pension Union.
Canwell, Houston and Whipple Introduce Exhibits, including list of Party members and front
organizations (511)
Dana T. Robinson [Committee Investigator] (513)
Testifies on financial dealing of the Pension Union.
Introduction of Exhibit by Committee, Edition of New World (520)
Albert Crosetto [Landlord] (521)
Owned apartment rented by Marie Redenbaugh, who was alleged to have starved from
lack of food by the Pension Union
Lucy Osborn [acquaintance of Redenbaugh] (526)
Deposition, Arthur Truax [acquaintance of Redenbaugh]
Mary Louise Redenbaugh [Sister-in-law of Redenbaugh] (530)
Carrie A. Mordaunt [acquaintance of Redenbaugh (540)
Mrs. John R. Hamilton [acquaintance of Redenbaugh] (545)
John R. Hamilton [acquaintance of Redenbaugh] (549)
Introduction of Exhibit by Committee, letter to P-I following Redenbaugh’s death, Articles of
Incorporation for WPU, various checks to WPU (551)
Paul Stith [Committee Investigatory] (554)
Compares Party line and public statements by accused Communists.
Agnes Bridges [former spouse of Harry Bridges] (594)
Alleges Bridges and other longshore leaders are Party members
Closing statement by Canwell (604)