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Excerpt from Communist Activities in the Minneapolis, Minn., Area: Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-Eighth Congress, Second Session, June 24, 25, and 26, 1964, Including Index
The name of the new local group was Youth for Political Action, she said, and after it was formed and running, the officers were to affiliate themselves with the Progressive Youth Organizing Committee. Miss Withrow left the Communist Party in March 1961. She had decided to leave the organization at least 3 or 4 months prior to her resignation because her party assignment to youth activities and the party's exploitation of young people had made her a little sick. She explained to the committee that during the Chicago conference the delegates had been allowed to take notes - a practice usually forbidden. She had made written references, during the course of the conference, to the fact that Rubin and Queen - and through them, the party completely controlled the proceedings of the meetings. Subsequently, her notes were discovered and she was compelled to give a full explana tion at several meetings justifying her actions from the party point of view. She also had been directed to write a Marxist analysis of what she had done wrong. This She refused to do. Following this episode she resigned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
