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==Dies investigation==
==Dies investigation==
By 1939 the movement claimed 4,697,915 members in 513 affiliated organizations nationwide. The same year the [[HUAC|Dies Committee]] subpoenaed leaders of the AYC, consisting of a core from the [[Young Communist League]]. [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] was in attendance at the hearings and afterwards invited the subpoenaed witnesses to board at the White House during their stay in Washington D.C. The First Lady went so far as to lobby the Committee to not brand the AYC as a Communist front organization.<ref>House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1940-41.</ref>
By 1939 the movement claimed 4,697,915 members in 513 affiliated organizations nationwide. The same year the [[HUAC|Dies Committee]] subpoenaed leaders of the AYC, consisting of a core from the [[Young Communist League]]. [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] was in attendance at the hearings and afterwards invited the subpoenaed witnesses to board at the White House during their stay in Washington D.C. The First Lady went so far as to lobby the Committee to not brand the AYC as a Communist front organization.<ref>House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1940-41.</ref>
[[Joseph P. Lash]], who later married [[Trude Lash]], was among AYC's leadership. <ref>[http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/american-youth-congress.htm American Youth Congress], Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, Hyde Park New York.</ref> Lash, who described his defection in 1937 from the [[Socialist Party]] in the Communist weekly, ''[[New Masses]]'', was one of the boarders at the White House during the hearings. Another officer, Abbott Simon, staff member of the [[CPUSA]] publication, ''Champion'', slept for two weeks in Lincoln's bed during the hearings.
==Communazi era==
==Communazi era==