COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EDWIN E. WILLIS, Louisiana, Chairman WILLIAM M. TUCK, Virginia RICHARD H. ICHORD, Missouri JOHN M. ASHBROOK, Ohio DEL CLAWSON, California RICHARD L. ROUDEBUSH, Indiana ALBERT W. WATSON, South Carolina FRANCIS J. MCNAMARA, Director ALFRED M. NITTLE, Counsel II committee of the House of Representatives, constituted as such by the rules of the House, adopted pursuant to Article I, section 5, of the Constitution of the United States which authorizes the House to determine the rules of its proceedings. RULES ADOPTED BY THE 90TH CONGRESS House Resolution 7, January 10, 1967 RESOLUTION Resolved, That the Rules of the House of Representatives of the Eighty-ninth Congress, together with all applicable provisions of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, as amended, be, and they are hereby, adopted as the Rules of the House of Representatives of the Ninetieth Congress RULE X STANDING COMMITTEES 1. There shall be elected by the House, at the commencement of each Congress, (r) Committee on Un-American Activities, to consist of nine Members. RULE XI POWERS AND DUTIES OF COMMITTEES 18. Committee on Un-American Activities. (a) Un-American activities. (b) The Committee on Un-American Activities, as a whole or by subcommittee, is authorized to make from time to time investigations of (1) the extent, character, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the United States, (2) the diffusion within the United States of subversive and un-American propaganda that is instigated from foreign countries or of a domestic origin and attacks the principle of the form of government as guaranteed by our Constitution, and (3) all other questions in relation thereto that would aid Congress in any necessary remedial legislation. The Committee on Un-American Activities shall report to the House (or to the Clerk of the House if the House is not in session) the results of any such investigation, together with such recommendations at it deems advisable. For the purpose of any such investigation, the Committee on Un-American Activities, or any subcommittee thereof, is authorized to sit and act at such times and places within the United States, whether or not the House is sitting, has recessed, or has adjourned, to hold such hearings, to require the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, and to take such testimony, as it deems necessary. Subpenas may be issued under the signature of the chairman of the committee or any subcommittee, or by any member designated by any such chairman, and may be served by any person designated by any such chairman or member. 27. To assist the House in appraising the administration of the laws and in developing such amendments or related legislation as it may deem necessary, each standing committee of the House shall exercise continuous watchfulness of the execution by the administrative agencies concerned of any laws, the subject matter of which is within the jurisdiction of such committee; and, for that purpose, shall study all pertinent reports and data submitted to the House by the agencies in the executive branch of the Government. SYNOPSIS On April 23 and 24, 1968, a subcommittee of the Committee on UnAmerican Activities met in Washington, D.C., to continue its hearings. on subversive influences in riots, looting, and burning. This hearing, part 4 of the series, concerns events related to the Newark, N.J., riot of July 1967. The subcommittee was composed of Representatives Edwin E. Willis (D-La.), chairman, William M. Tuck (D-Va.), Richard H. Ichord (D-Mo.), John M. Ashbrook (R-O.), and Albert W. Watson (R-S.C.); also Representative John C. Culver (D-Iowa) in absence of Mr. Willis. Detective Captain Charles Kinney, the witness, has been employed in the Newark Police Department since 1947, serving for 19 years in the detective division. For 8 months prior to his appearance before the committee, Captain Kinney, under special assignment, has been investigating the possibility of criminal conspiracy in the Newark riot. Captain Kinney testified that there were 23 homicides and 3 related deaths during the Newark riot which took place from July 12 to July 17, 1967. He said that 1,465 arrests were made, including 91 which involved the use of deadly weapons and explosives. Also, there were 507 cases of breaking and entering. Property damage was estimated at $15.9 million, of which $4.9 million was uninsured. Of the 1,108 persons injured during the riot, the witness testified, 1,001 were civilians, 72 were police officers, and 35 were firemen. PRERIOT PHASE Captain Kinney testified that in 1964 a group of activists of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) came to Newark and organized the Newark Community Union Project (NCUP). The leader of this group was Thomas Hayden, former national president of SDS. The committee's counsel noted for the record that Hayden, who was born in Detroit in 1939 and who holds an A.B. degree from the University of Michigan, had been a field representative for SDS in 196162, a member of the U.S. delegation to the Communist-controlled Eighth World Youth Festival held in Helsinki, Finland; had traveled to North Vietnam and Communist China with the U.S. Communist Party's theoretician, Herbert Aptheker, where he met with Asian revolutionary leaders in Hanoi, Peking, and Prague; had also visited Moscow; and had written the foreword to Aptheker's book, Mission to Hanoi. He also collaborated with Staughton Lynd in writing The Other Side, which depicted the Viet Cong as heroes and warmly praised the North Vietnamese leaders. Associated with Hayden in NCUP were the following SDS members: Jesse Allen, a founder and one of the full-time organizers of the NCUP; Robert Kramer and Norman Fruchter, also full-time organ izers for the group; Carol Glassman; Terry Jefferson; Constance Brown; Corinna Fales; and Derek Winans. Jesse Allen, the witness said, was both an official of NCUP and an organizer for Area Board 3 of the United Community Corporation (UCC), the Newark antipoverty agency financed by the Office of Economic Opportunity. A delegate to the 1965 SDS convention, Allen had been a speaker at a meeting of the Militant Labor Forum, a front organization for the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), a Trotskyist Communist organization on the Attorney General's subversive list. Carol Glassman, born in New York on August 10, 1942, was an NCUP organizer who resides at its headquarters in Newark. A graduate of Smith College, she and Constance Brown, a 1964 Swarthmore graduate, had attended public meetings held by the city of Newark for the purpose of "harassing the power structure." She traveled to Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, in September 1967 with Thomas Hayden and 39 others where they met with representatives from Communist countries. Mrs. Dazzare (Terry) Jefferson, Captain Kinney testified, is the treasurer of both UCC's Area Board 3, also known as the Peoples' Action Group, and SDS's Newark Community Union Project; the office manager of NCUP; and a community organizer for Area Board 3. Her technique as treasurer of these two groups has been to make out checks to "cash" which are in turn endorsed by her, thus concealing the distribution of funds. She attended the 1965 national convention of SDS. According to New Politics News, Mrs. Jefferson is a member of the executive board of the National Conference for New Politics (NCNP). Robert Kramer, a former organizer for the NCUP, coauthored an article for Studies on the Left entitled "An Approach to Community Organizing Projects," which dealt with NCUP's operations in Newark. Norman Fruchter, Kramer's collaborator on the above-mentioned article, has been New York editor for the magazine, Studies on the Left, an SDS publication, and also a faculty member of the Free University [School] of New York. Fruchter is also coproducer, according to the National Guardian, of various films, including the "Troublemakers," which depicts SDS activities in organizing the ghettos of Newark. Captain Kinney said that Fruchter is an adviser to SDS's Radical Education Project. He also testified that a letter had been sent to Fruchter, a leading activist in NCUP, by William McAdoo on behalf of CERGE (Committee to Defend Resistance to Ghetto Life), thanking Fruchter for his financial support and his sponsorship. CERGE, committee counsel pointed out, was a front organization for the pro-Peking Communist organization, the Progressive Labor Party (PLP), and McAdoo was identified during this committee's New York riot hearings as the PLP member who had given instructions on the making of Molotov cocktails at the time of the Harlem riot. Constance Brown, employed by the Welfare Board of Essex County, N.J., has the authority to sign checks for the Newark Community Union Project of SDS. Corinna Fales, an organizer for NCUP, had been previously associated with SDS in Baltimore, Md., in 1963, Captain Kinney testified. Derek Winans, born in Orange, N.J., on September 4, 1938, graduated from Harvard University in 1962. A journalist, Winans has written articles for Ramparts and The Nation magazines and has been active in numerous civil rights activities such as voter registration |