Mrs. BLAUVELT. These are the membership cards which were issued to me noting my membership in the Communist Party for the years 1943 to 1948 inclusive. The card that I was given for 1944 is in the name of the Communist Political Association. The last card which I received was the membership card for 1948. That was the last year that the party issued membership cards. They discontinued after that year, as a matter of security.

Mr. TAVENNER. What name did you use when you became a member of the Ninth A. D. Club of the Communist Party?

Mrs. BLAUVELT. In the Ninth A. D. Club I used the name of Mildred Brandt, and after I was expelled from the Ninth A. D. Club I had to assume another alias and I assumed the name of Sylvia Vogel, which was the name I was known by in the party from 1944 through 1951. Mr. TAVENNER. I would like to offer in evidence the first Communist Party card issued to you under the name of Mildred Brandt in 1943, and the last Communist Party card which was issued in 1948 to you under the name of Sylvia Vogel, and ask that they be marked "Blauvelt Exhibits Nos. 2 and 3" respectively, and that they be incorporated in the transcript of the record.

VENNER. I should like to have the privilege of making photoies and returning the originals to the witness.

LLIS. That procedure will be followed.

course of your work in the Communist Party, did you find or uncommon for members to use their own names or aliases reasons or for any other reasons?

AUVELT. I found both to be the case. There were many who own names, had no objection to using their own names, but were many who did use party names, as they were called. were known in the party by those party names. And they them in many instances to conceal their identity, their ity for reasons of their own, probably for positions that or to the degree they might have been known by other

LIS. I suppose the Communist Party knew that that practice

AUVELT. That would be known, I would say to most of the embers of the club.

ENNER. You spoke of the Ninth A. D. Club. What do the D." represent?

UVELT. Assembly district. The clubs usually were divided phical designations according to assembly districts, eshat particular time. The Upper West Side section, had the lub, 9th A. D. Club and 11th A. D. Club and I was a meminth A. D. Club.

ENNER. Can you tell the committee the approximate nungth of the Ninth A. D. Club during the period of your ?

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Mrs. BLAUVELT. I can't give you any exact figure on that because I was in the club too short a time and the membership in the light of numbers was not discussed. I would assume that there might have been at least 100 from the composition of the clubs at that time.

Mr. TAVENNER. Will you please give us the names of the members of the Ninth A. D. Club, whom you can of your own knowledge identify as members of the Communist Party?

I would like to make this preliminary statement in regard to it. If, in the course of identifying members of that group you should name any person known to you to be a member of the Communist Party who, at any subsequent period of time was issued a license to teach that you so state if that is a fact; and if the license to teach was revoked or surrendered, that fact should also be stated.

Mrs. BLAUVELT. In the Ninth A. D. Club I knew the following Communist Party members through having met them at party meetings. [Reading:]

Archie Abrams, 308 West 92d Street, New York City. I met him at the time that I joined the party in the home of Fan Fundler. At that time he told me he had joined the Communist Party in the days of the depression and he was waiting for his orders to go to Fort Monmouth, which came through the following day.

Ruth Abrams of 308 West 92d Street, New York City, was the financial secretary of the Ninth A. D. Club and also a member of the county committee. She later became executive secretary of the Ninth A. D. Club, one of the active members of the club.

Dorothy Ames, 467 Central Park West, New York City; I understood she changed her name from Abrams. She was one of the members placed in my group. In other words, I was her group captain. She did attend party meetings.

Mr. TAVENNER. If any of the persons whom you are identifying as members with you in any group of the Communist Party are now being investigated by any investigative agency of the State or Federal Government, I suggest that your identification of those individuals be reserved for executive session.

Mrs. BLUVELT. All right. [Reading:]

Michael Ames, 467 Central Park West, New York City. He attended meetings prior to his induction into the service.

Frank Asher, 425 Central Park West, New York City, who was the executive secretary of the club and took great interest in me when I first came into the Ninth A. D. Club insofar as his recruiting me into the party. He was also a member of the county committee and he became chairman of the club while I was there.

Steve Ballin was the industrial director of the club and a delegate to the county convention which was held at that time.

Ann Boylan attended some meetings. I remember one time she said her husband was in San Francisco doing organizing work. The implication was doing organizational work for the Communist Party; organizing in some connection or other. She didn't specify just what.

I think I would like to point out here there were two members in the Ninth A. D. Club who had been placed in my group as group captain, and when their names were given to me by Ruth Abrams, financial secretary of the club, she told me they never attended meetings, and I was to collect their dues from Frank Asher, the executive secretary. Frank Asher told me they had been members of the party 6 years prior to this time and had rejoined in February 1943.

Mr. TAVENNER. Did you collect the dues from them personally! Mrs. BLAUVELT. Not personally, no; I collected their dues from Frank Asher.