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the twenty-five dollar and less, but I got contributions as high as 500 dollars.

In one case, I learned of -- through a friend of mine on the West Coast, Jerry Shore. Jerry was at one time the head of Pacifica. Jerry was at one time married to Anne Shore, now dead. Anne Shore was the director of the union's pension fund, a very very wonderful, able person. Anne died. Jerry told me, because a friend of his had received one of my letters. He called me up from California and he said, “Moe, I hear you're raising money.” I said, “Yes, I guess I am.” He says, “Do you know that Anne left in her will, there's a fund that's for purposes such as this?” I said, “No.” He says, “If you call Basil Pollitt in Brooklyn, he's an attorney. Basil's the executor, and talk to him about it.” I said, “What do I ask for?” He said, “Ask for two thousand dollars.” So I called Basil. He knew about what was happening, and he said, “Alright. Okay with me. There are three members who decide. One of them, the key person, is Congressman George Crockett.” Anne had come out of Detroit. I knew George Crockett. I'd met him through Anne. So he says, “Call him.” So I called him, and I talked to him on the phone. He said, “Send me some stuff.”

I sent him a batch of the newspaper articles and called him up. Basil said, “Okay. Two thousand dollars.” Then when we started to go back, I got another two. Then, during the period when the election was being contested, we had to raise money for lawyers again. I went back to Basil, and Basil gave me three. Basil said to me, “You're emptying our fund! You'll give it back to us?” I said, “I can't promise that I'll give it back to you ever.” I says, “But I'll tell you what I'll do. I promise you this. That at some time in the future, when we get back in, I'm going to try to see to it that the camp and scholarship fund that's named after Joe Tauber now, from the old drug division, that sometime I'm going to try to get it renamed after Anne Shore.” I said, “But I can't give you back seven thousand dollars.” As a matter of fact that issue, that fund-raising issue, came up in the Department of Labor during the investigation, when they called me in. They were calling me in to ask me about -- Turner's people had turned over the letters. They had the letters.

Letters you had written.

And they wanted to know who wrote this. I said, “I wrote it.” “And who'd you send it to?” “I sent it to any people I knew.” They asked me, “Who duplicated this for you?” I said, “I did it at home. I have a home office and I have a copying machine.” They said, “Alright.” It turned out that one of the people who was questioning