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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 2387
of the Communist Part3^'" And he pulled out his membership card in the Communist Party and showed it to me.
Mr. OwExs. What did it look like ?
Mr. Robinson. It was in a little folder — he had his billfold and it was in a little folder.
Mr. Owens. Was it wliite or blue?
Mr. Robinson. Yes; I believe it was white. The thing I noticed in particular on it was his name and we kidded about it.
Mr. Owens. What was that ?
Mr. Robinson. That was Herb Stewart. I said, "Well, hell, this isn't your name
Mr. Kearns. Mr. Robinson, will j'ou
Mr. Owens. Just a minute, Mr. Chairman, if you please. I think he had better exhaust his independent recollection without seeing it.
jNIr. Keakns. Well, he identified it as being white. I think that is enough information.
Mr. Robinson. It has been 11 years and some of these things are not exactly clear in my mind, but the general trend of it — there was a positive statement that Herb was a member of the Communist Party.
Mr. Owens. You said you saw the name Stewart on the card ^
Mr. Robinson. Yes. He explained they never used their own names for the reason that the records might be caught and they would get in a jam. Of course, that was old stuff to me. I knew that years before.
Mr. McCann. How long did he say he had been a member ?
Mr. Robinson, Just a short time at that time. He stated he had joined it sometime before. He had not been a member very long.
I think I made tlie remark to him at the time, "When you find out what the picture is, I don't think you will want to be in there." I think I had a very high regard for Herb, his honesty, his unionism, and I thought he was just off on the wrong foot.
So we discussed it all the way back into strike headquarters and discussed it many times after that.
Mr, Kearns. Can 3^011 recognize this card, sir? [Handing witness a document.]
Mr. Owens. jNIr. Chairman; is it a card or a receipt?
Mr. Robinson. That looks like it. yes, but if I remember correctly it had another part to it, it was folded and he had that in his billfold. It seemed to me it was a folder of some kind.
Mr. Owens. You are now looking at what is marked "Exhibit 1 for Identification of March 4," I believe.
You say it was not like that, that it was a folded card i
Mr. Robinson. It was a folded card ; yes.
Mr. jMcCann. ^Ir. Chairman, he is now looking at control card, first half of 1937, Book No. 74282.
Mr, Owens, I think vou will find the identification mark on the back of it, Mr, McCann.
Mr. Robinson. I am awfully sorry Herb isn't here to probably refresh my memoiw on some of the things we probably discussed at that time.
Mr. McCann. This card is marked for identification "Exhibit 1."
Mr. Owens. What date ?
Mr. McCann. March 4, 1948.