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the committee has made every effort to
stay within the appropriation and eX-
poets to return an unexpended balance
OF approximately one-third Of the en-
tire appropriation to the Treasury Of the
United States.
No lawyers have been engaged at Gov
ernment expense and no undercover
men or special investigators have been
employed except on particular missions,
and not for more than a few days at
time.
Most Of the information presented to
the committee has been done so volun-
tarily, and only small percentage Of
the witnesses have been subpoenaed.
The witnesses represented all walks of
life, priests, ministers, college profess
Sors, school teachers, Government and
city officials, police officers, industrial
tsts farmers, high of1lcials of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor and of the
United Mine workers of America, Re-
serve officers, journalists, members Of
the Chicago Board of Trade, grain
brokers, representatives Of the lumber
and manganese industries, of patriotic
societies, including the American Legion
and other veteran organizations, also
numerous Negroes, officials of the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union and various
Hungarian, German, Finnish, Greek,
Scotch and Negro.
Among the better known witnesses
who testified at length before the COM
mittee and presented q vast amount OF
documentary evidence were William
Green, president Of the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor; John L. Lewis, preSi-
dent of the United Mine Workers of
America; Father Edmund A. Walsh,
vice president Of Georgetown University;
Charles G. Wood, commissioner of con-
ciliation, Department of Labor; Col.
Leroy Smith of the Better America Fed
Grafton Of Los Angeles, Capt. William
r. Hynes of the Los Angeles Police De-
partment, who presented one of the
most detailed extensive reports of Com
muniSt activities of any witness during
the hearing; Robert F. Kelley, chief Of
the Eastern European affairs, Depart
ment OF State; j. Edgar Hoover, chief
Of the Bureau Of Investigation, Depart
ment Of Justice; former Police Commis-
sioner Grover A. Whalen of New York.
Inspector John A. Lyons, New York
Police Department; Comdr. H. r. Helm
Of the Department Of the Navy Intelli-
gence Bureau, Jacob Spolansky, special
representative, National Metal Trades
Association, Detroit; Basil w. Delgass,
former vice president of the Amtorg
Trading Corporation; Peter A. Bog
danov, president Of the Amtorg Trading
Corporation; Feodor M. ZiaVkin, the
general manager of the Amtorg Trading
Corporation; j. Louis Engdahl, a well
known Communist, and head of the
International Labor Defense; William
simons. district organizer for the Com
munist party in California; Joseph
Fields, head of the Communist youth
movement in Seattle; Louis Bebrits, edi-
tor OF the Hungarian Communist news
paper vi Elore, published in New York,
with an alleged circulation Of 10000;
Moissaye j. Olgin, editor of the Jewish
Communist newspaper Freiheit, pub
lished In New York, with an alleged
circulation Of between $4,000 and so 1000.
Called Red Herring.
Soon after the investigation was or
dered by the House Of Representatives
hearings were held and Immediately at
tacks were made by the Scripps- Howard
chain Of newspapers, the New York
World and the Baltimore Sun, to the
effect that the committee was q politi-
cal red herring TO attract the attention
Of the public from the unemployment
situation and business depression and
thereby help the Republican party prior
to election.
InankS 10 the cooperation OF every
member of the committee, Democrats
and Republicans alike, there has not
been the slightest indication of any
form Of partisanship in the conduct Of
the investigation and I am confident
that there will be no signs of party
division in either the report or the
recommendations.
1t Is apparently the opinion of the
committee members that the work as
signed 70 them by the House Of Repre-
sentativeS Is above and beyond party
allegiance or interests and that service
to the United States Is the only mo-
tive that impelS their actions.
The committee has gone about its
work without any attempt to defend its
actions from unfriendly newspaper
criticism, confident that it already has
the support of 95 per cent of the Amer
ican people, including the American
Federation Of Labor, the New York
State Chamber Of Commerce, the
American Legion and all veteran and
patriotic organizations and of practi-
cally all the church elements In the
United States.
The committee has not and does not
propose to waste its time answering
criticisms emanating from unfriendly
sources or appearing in radical papers.