INDEX WITNESS Robert M. Gaylord, president, National Association of Manufacturers_____ Page 97 97, 118 102 103 97, 125 110, 124 98 106, 111 98 101 117 104, 116 103 127 UNION FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION HEARINGS BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS INVESTIGATION OF CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1944 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES, Washington, D. C. The committee met at 10 a. m., Hon. Clinton P. Anderson (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. We have been permitting each witness who has come before us to make any sort of preliminary statement that he might wish. If you desire to read your statement at this time we will be glad to have it. (Witness sworn by the chairman.) TESTIMONY OF JAMES LOEB, JR., EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, UNION FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION GENERAL STATEMENT Mr. LOEB. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, it is with no reluctance whatsoever, but gladly, that I appear before you at your invitation on behalf of the Union for Democratic Action. Believing, as we in the Union for Democratic Action do, that organizations attempting to influence or mold public opinion should be prepared to make full disclosure of their purposes, activities, and Sources of financial support, I would like to assure you at the outset that the Union for Democratic Action appears before you cooperatively, that we have nothing to hide, and that all our records are open to you at any time. We do not support the position of any organization which seeks to secrete this information from public view, as the Committee for Constitutional Government evidently seeks to do. May I be permitted also to express a word of general approval, not only of the purposes of your committee, but of the methods which you have thus far followed in the accomplishment of those purposes. The right, indeed the obligation, of the Congress of the United States, which is our highest governing body and the bulwark of our democracy, to investigate the activities of American institutions must constantly be underscored. In many fields both Houses of Congress have shown the value of such investigations. One has only to cite as examples the work of the La Follette civil liberties committee and the Truman committee of the Senate, and the work of the Tolan committee in the House. Unfortunately, this investigatory right can easily be perverted. Two |