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170 COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY Mr. Hayden. I think I can. As I said, the entire year of 1947 I was not working. I was under contract, but I did not work. I stayed on the boat in Santa Barbara. I was married in May of that year and my wife and I went East for 4 months. Then I began to feel a desire to at least participate in something of a constructive nature. We were in New York on our way to the west coast when this rally was being held. Mr. Velde. Where had you come from before you went to the rally in New York ? Mr. Hayden. Maine. Then we went out to California, and it was that same feeling that motivated me in joining the Committee for the First Amendment when I was approached. It was a desire to talk about something outside the weather, which was what we had been talking about all summer in Maine. Mr. Wood. Mr. Doyle. Mr. Doyle. The law under which this committee functions, as far as jurisdiction is concerned, provides that we may inquire into the extent, character, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the United States. Have you any information which you can give this committee which you have not already given on that sub- ject? If you have, will you give it to us, please? Do you under- stand my question ? Mr. Hayden. Yes. I believe that I have covered just about every- thing I possibly have access to in my own mind. Mr. Doyle. The law also provides that we shall inquire into the distribution and diffusion within the United States of subversive and un-American propaganda that is instigated by and comes from foreign countries. Have you any information on that ? Mr. Hayden. I have no information on that whatsoever. Mr. Doyle. Did you acquire any information on that while you were a member? Mr. Hayden. I did not. Mr. Doyle. Or before or at all ? Mr. Hayden. No. Mr. Doyle. You have testified twice, in answer to my questions, that you are satisfied one of the objectives of the Communist Party of the United States is to forcibly overthrow, if necessary, the form of government set out by our American Constitution. Have you any- thing to add as to the ways and means they would undertake to accom- plish that objective? Mr. Hayden. I do not. Mr. Doyle. Thank you. Mr. Tavenner. I want to make certain that your testimony is clear in regard to one matter. I asked you to name those whom you know to be members of the Communist Party who were connected with the Screen Actor's Guild with which you worked, and you named those that you knew ? Mr. Hayden. I did. Mr. Tavenner. And you named several others, members of the Communist Party, with which you had come in contact. Then, in the course of your testimony, you indicated that you could name others, but it would be a matter of conjecture, and I stated to you that I did not want you to testify from conjecture. Have you given to the in-