Abram Flaxer v. United States

WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge.

Indicted under 2 U.S.C.A. § 192 1 for willfully failing and refusing to produce at a Senatorial subcommittee hearing on October 5, 1951, certain records required of him by a subpoena duces tecum and found guilty by a jury, Abram Flaxer appeals.

The appellant was president of the United Public Workers, a union made up of employees of Federal, state and local governments. In 1951 the Subcommittee on Internal Security of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary received information indicating that he and the other national officer of the union and certain of its…