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466 COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY Mr. Tavenner. Your presence at the home of Karen Morley, you contend, might tend to incriminate you ? Mr. Gough. Your pursuit of this line of inquiry, Mr. Tavenner, I believe tends to destroy the privilege I have just invoked. Mr. Tavenner. Where is Karen Morley today ? Mr. Gough. I must decline to answer on the grounds previously stated. Mr. Tavenner. Do you know where she is ? Mr. Gough. I decline to answer on the grounds previously stated. Mr. Tavenner. Mr. Gough, Miss Hazel Huffman, an investigator for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, participated in certain activities of the American Peace Mobilization, and she testified before this committee in May 1941 that you attended a section of the American People's Meeting which met in Mecca Temple, New York City, on April 5, 1941, and that you were also present at Ran- dall's Island, New York City, on that same day, at a meeting spon- sored by the American Peace Mobilization. .Is that a correct state- ment ? Mr. Gough. I am afraid I must decline to answer on the grounds previously stated. Mr. Wood. Do you so decline ? Mr. Gough. I do decline to answer on the grounds I stated earlier. Mr. Tavenner. Are you a member of the xlctors' Equity Asso- ciation? Mr. Gough. All actors in the theatre are required to belong to Actors' Equity Association. Mr. Wood. Do you mean by that, that you are a member of it ? Mr. Gough. Yes, sir. Mr. Tavenner. Did you attempt to induce that association to send a delegation to Randall's Island to attend a meeting sponsored by the American Peace Mobilization? Mr. Gough. I will decline to answer on the grounds stated earlier. Mr. Tavenner. Were you ever affiliated with the Theater Arts Committee ? Mr. Gough. I must decline to answer the question on the grounds previously stated. Mr. Tavenner. Were you treasurer of that organization? Just a moment. I hand you a sheet showing the members of the executive board of the Theater Arts Committee, a printed statement. Mr. Wood. Do you have a date? Mr. Tavenner. Bearing date December 1, 1939, in which the name appears, Lloyd Gough, under the title "Treasurer." Will you look at that and state whether or not you were treasurer of the organiza- tion at that time? Mr. Gough (after examining document and conferring with his counsel). I decline to answer on the grounds previously stated. Mr. Tavenner. I understood you to state that you went to Holly- wood in 1946 ? Mr. Gough. That is right, sir. Mr. Tavenner. After your arrival in Hollywood, did you become chairman of the executive committee of the Actors' Laboratory? Mr. Gough. I must decline to answer on the grounds previously stated.