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420 UN-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES later said he could not use $3,000 of it for ball without the consent of the Ah) party. tha He waa jater deported. th Under separate cover, I am mailing you a complimentary copy of a booklet e written by an officer of this department. i Yours truly, hav Capt. H. M. Nrzes, M Acting Chief of Police. Mar That is just one instance. That is an instance of a party member| M carrying money around loosely, in large amounts. in Then I have here another letter from the chief of police of Wil- - mington, Del., in which he states: that Replying to your communication relative to Communist leader being al- ¥ rested in this city, with bonus marchers to Washington, D. C., in 1932. M I bare to advise that Benjamin Gold who gave his address as 815 Second Avenue, New York City, N. ¥., was arrested in this city December 2, 1992, M ebarged with assauit aud battery on a police officer. He was fined $50 and] M costs and sentence to serve 40 days. This case was appealed toe the saa M who upheld the decision of the lower court. January 19, 1934, The above M * ee ed was imposed. Released February 22, 1934. i ; When arrested this man had in his possession 50 $10 travelers checks, made M. Bb payable to Car! Winter. AM > # Very truly yours, : ‘or . 5 : Georce Brack, ; f Superintendent of Public Safety. oul ft We have information on a great number of instances like that. ar 4 I want to submit still another financial report. Here is a report af the Internationa) Labor Defense for another year, showing that 1 4, é this particular year their total income was $80,127.63. We lavef i, iS many similar reports, but J did not go to the expense of photostat-} yy, ing then, because it would have amounted fo considerable. an a . : : : es : dl he Cuairman. You did take into consideration, in computing thef 7, $10,000,000, all these reports from these organizations themselvesj,. as io expenditures ? Mr. LE. We took the reports of the organizations that { nN: could get reports on, and we took the average and multi rlied it by half of that average, in order to allow for a very smat ture by some organizations. In other words, 1 could very well build up a figure higher the that, I think, and prove it, but we wanted to be conservative i this statement. We know that they take in a lot of money at their meetings. Fo instance, at the meeting in Madison Square Garden last year, ang, the one at the Hippodrome last year—they had two meetings we know what their advertised prices for these meetings were, they charge for all these meetings that they hold. They claim later that they took in $26,000 at one meeting and $21,000 at anotherg,, That is just for two meetings. ) We have arrived at the $10,000,000 expenditure in a great mang. ways. There is no set way of proving the exact amount. The Cnairman. In reference to your statement that 66 famil rule world communism, what is that based on? Mr. Sreexe. I have shown you by their own documents, the Pa Manual, that the high authority in this country is the central mitiee of the Communist Party. Mr. Heatex. Composed of 60 members? M M 1 expend a I M; Mi Mp ‘ie TI: t