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COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 1465 Mr. Tavenner. Can you recall the names of other persons in whose home you met ? Mrs. Ashe. Well, I can't. I'm sorry, because after we left Common- wealth House, for some reason, our house seemed to be the meeting place and so many unit meetings were held there. It is a little hard to remember. Mr. Tavenner. Now, you mentioned Commonwealth House. What was the significance of your living in Commonwealth House ? Mrs. Ashe. Well, during the period that we were identified with the Socialist Party, the Socialist Party took a big home in Hollywood at Sunset and Vine—1453 is the address—and that was the Socialists' headquarters. It was a three-story house that at one time had been a mansion, the old Martin estate, and we were there as caretakers and made our home in the Socialist Party headquarters at that time. .Then subsequently, when we transferred allegiance to the Communist Party, the Communist Party took over Commonwealth House. However, I do not remember any unit meetings at Commonwealth House because it was a rule of the party that no party meetings should be held because this was a house that housed all of the front organizations, such as the John Reed Club, the ILD, the 1WO Mr. Tavenner. Now, just a moment. Will you give us the names rather than the initials of those organizations. Mrs. Ashe. O. K. The John Reed Club, which was a club made up of artists and writers and so forth, of Hollywood, mostly. The ILD was the International Labor Defense. Mr. Tavenner. International Labor Defense? Mrs. Ashe. I believe that's right. Mr. Tavenner. That's right. Mrs. Ashe. I am so used to just the initials. IWO is the Interna- tionl Workers' Order, which was an insurance kind of thing. It also housed the Partisan, which was a magazine published by the John Reed Club and various others. Oh, Schuler. This was a children's organization. Oh, and the YCL also met there. Mr. Tavenner. YCL; did you say ? Mrs. Ashe. Oh, excuse me. The Young Communist League. Mr. Tavenner. Young Communist League ? Mrs. Ashe. Yes. Mr. Tavenner. Can you tell us a little more about the functioning of the John Reed Club. That is, when they began to function in Los Angeles. Mrs. Ashe. No ; I don't know the history of the John Reed Club. 1 never was a member of the club, and I never was assigned to it as a party member. (At this time Representative Donald L. Jackson entered the hearing room.) Mr. Tavenner. Then you state that after leaving Commonwealth House many of the meetings were held in your home? Mrs. Ashe. Yes; that's correct. Mr. Tavenner. Did that unit or cell have a name which met in your home and which you attended ? Mrs. Ashe. Well, no; because there were various units. We weren't in one unit very long. I mean, we were transferred around a great