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Nine Invoke Amendment At Hearings
Witnesses from shipyard to schoolteacher invoked the Fifth Amendment before a congressional subcommittee probing communism in Baltimore. The May 3 hearing featured a 36-year-old Negro informer, several who refused to answer, and tense exchanges with committee counsel over alleged Communist ties and past union affiliations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
House Un-American Activities Subcommittee
Charles Craig
FBI
Herbert Nichol
Nichol
CIO
Wilmington
Del
United Electrical Workers
Ernest Moyer
Richard Arens
Moyer
Nichols
Arens
Willis
D-La
Harold Buchman
George Meyers
Buchman
Milton Bates
Communist Party
Marcella Avnet
New York City
Hunter and
Rollins Colleges
Cornell
New York University
Columbia
CCNY
New York
E. S. Wells
Theodore Roosevelt
Richmond
Avnet
Progressive Party
PTA
Coordinating Council
Ptas
Citizens Planning and Housing Group
Hilltop Civic Assn
Elsie Winter
Claire Friedman Round
Bates
Maryland State Bar
Bar