From Bob Treuhaft's Harvard College Anniversary Reports
1934-20^th and 1934-35^th

I am a labor lawyer and a labeled lawyer. The label, applied by Attorney General Brownell and Senator McCarthy, read interchangeably, "left wing lawyer", "Communist lawyer", "civil rights lawyer". Last December I was hailed before the Velde Committee and questioned about my political beliefs and associations. I respectfully declined to answer all questions, asserting my rights under the First and Fifth Amendments. The information I refused to indulge to the Committee under compulsion, I voluntarily make known to my classmates; my law firm represents labor unions, including: "left wing" unions, and is active in defense of the civil rights of minorities. Among the latter are some Communists and, more recently, New Deal Democrats. Since Mr. Brownell became Attorney General we have had to expand our facilities in expectation that we shall be called upon to defend "Fair Deal' Democrats as well.

Counseled, aided and abetted Mario Savio, the Free Speech Movement, and other subversive causes and organizations. Organized the Bay Area Funeral Society, a low cost lay-away plan. This project so amused my wife that she wrote a book about it, The American Way of Death.

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