Excerpt from Investigation of Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Vol. 5: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Eighty-Fifth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to Senate Resolution 74, 85th Congress; March 26 and 27, 1957 The chairman. The Chair wishes to announce to the audience that you are here as guests of the committee. You are welcome but we ask each Of you to give us your full cooperation by helping us keep order so that these proceedings may continue, when they start, uninterrupted. The Chair feels that it is appropriate that he should make a brief Opening statement for the record before the witness who is scheduled to testify today is called to the witness stand. 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.