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COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 1569 in any other industry, it is the duty of this committee to investigate that fact and find it out. Mr. Klein. Well, I wish to call to the counsel's attention that I have terminated this employment. Mi 1 . Tavenner. I did not hear your answer. Mr. Wood. He called counsel's attenion to the fact that his employ- ment has been terminated. Mr. Tavenner. When was that done? Mr. Klein (conferring with counsel). I terminated it as early as possible after receiving the subpena from the committee. It took effect as of this morning. Air. Tavenner. I want to commend you for that action because I meant to leave no implication that there was any Communist leader- ship in that strike or that it was in any sense a Communist strike. I have no information or knowledge on the subject. But, if there is anyone connected with it who is working as a member of the Com- munist Party, then we want to know that fact. Mr. Klein. Is this a question that you are addressing to me or is it a statement? Mr. Tavenner. It's an answer to the inference which you said that we were making. Mr. Klein. I see. Mr. Tavenner. I have no further questions, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Wood. Mr. Walter, do you have any questions ? Mr. Walter. Mr. Klein, what was the Federated Press ? Mr. Klein (after conferring with counsel). I will have to decline to answer your question or to enter into any discussion on the grounds that I have already stated in previous declinations. Mr. Wood. As far as this committee is concerned, you don't have to decline to answer. Mr. Klein. I will rephrase it and say I do decline. Mr. Walter. I don't care to enter into any discussion with you about it; I merely, as a matter of information, wanted to know what the Federated Press was. Mr. Klein. Well, I don't wish to avoid discussion with you, but under the circumstances and in the context of this committee, an^l with the directory at hand, I see no other possible answers that I can give you and preserve the rights that I have previously referred to. Mr. Walter. What crime do you think you would be guilty of com- mitting or could be prosecuted for by telling me what a press service or a publication is? ( At this point Representative Clyde Doyle returned to the room.) Mr. Klein. Well, again I regret to avoid any discussion with you or exchange of opinion, but the same answer must hold with regard to my giving of reasons as held with regard to my answer to your previous question, Congressman. Mr. Walter. That is all. Mr. Wood. Mr. Doyle? Mr. Doyle. Mr. Klein, I had to leave the room a few minutes. I'm sorry 1 wasn't here to hear all of your testimony. Mr. Klein. That is quite all right. Mr. Doyle. I would like to have had the benefit of all your answers, of course. But I was particularly interested in the fact that you had