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Page Six 4sth St., New York City, N. ¥ Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., daily except Sunday, at 30 ¥. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956. Cable “DAIWORK.” Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 138th St., New York, N. Y. Fight Against Hunger and the Revolutionary Way Out! (Continued from Page Four) femains the strong sectarian Sectarianism i: It is the bree und of right g behind and avoidance of ndencies in the work of the Party. This ed in all phases of the Party's work. ortunist lack of faith in the masses, the tasks of leadership of the mass it feeds leftist deviations which cover their onary phrases. The struggle against sec- tarianism i: jition for successfully concentrating the Party on the pr and leading the masses in struggle for their immediat lenging and 4efeating the influence of social fascism establi: Struggles of n alliance with t grounding of the dail unde’ ding @eveloping and br Struggles, and d Party. s on the basis of concrete every day issues; for ony of the revolutionary workers over the rising ssed masses, and cementing a firm ing the bolshevization of the Party, the of the membership in a constantly firmer ings of Marx, Lenin and Stalin; for m bolshevik cadres steeled in the actual Id bolshevik initiative in all sections of the The struggle workers is 1 mass for the everyday economic and political needs of the than ever 1 point for the development of all mass dismissals, the stagger of labor must be based upon syste- ion of the shops with Party nuclei, commit- ‘The struggle for unemployment for unemployment insurance, ation of a constantly growing wor 2 union relief, agains imust be netw action unemp! @irection of a b Minimum wage of the emplo; ed in od hi firm}; employed councils. The united struggle of employed and i on the basis of these daily issues in the ad united movement for unemployment insurance, for a shorter hours, to include a general strike movement h especially the part time workers for the joint ust be develo d w demands. The building of the revolutionary trade union movement based upon the wor! k in the factories must give a firm mass foundation to the multaneously with most energetic and determined building of the revolutionary oppositions in all reformist unions. The struggle for workers’ rights and against political reaction must be more systematically developed on a constantly broadening mass basis. ‘The broadest masses will be involved in such struggles when they arise Out of the struggle for the immediate economic needs (Chicago, Cleve- land, Birmingham), Without neglecting the fullest utilization of all ghts, this struggle must be more and more based upon ilization for the direct exercise of these rights in practice, @Spetially the rights of assemblage, strike, etc. Resistance to the grow- ing police oppression must more and more subordinate the purely legal @Spécts of defense to the necessity of supporting actions of the masses. ‘The menace of growing fascist and gangster organizations directed against the -workers must be met with a systematic development of workers’ @efense corps. Phe struggle against imperialist war must be concretely and intima- tely bound up with the struggle for the daily economic and _ political needs of the workers, thereby defeating the social fascist and pacifist Csmagogy. The energetic agitation for the Leninist slogans of “Defeat ur.own imperialism” and “transformation of imperialist war into civil War” must be carried on upon the basis of the concrete events of the day in direct relation to resistance to the capitalist offensive at home and the struggle against starvation. The defense of the Soviet Union Must be more concretely brought to the masses on the basis of the widest popularization of the achievements of socialist construction, which show tothe American workers the road to the revolutionary solution of the crisis in the United States. New organizational forms and methods must be found for the crystallization of the existing widespread mood of resis- tance. to imperialist war among workers, farmers, students, intellectuals, and other middle class elements. The struggle for equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black Belt must be concretized in mass struggles for specific demands and around specific issues. The cases of the Scottsboro boys, of Angelo Herndon in Atlanta, of the Atlanta Six, etc., must become @ véhicle for a broad mass movement of white and Negro which simul- taneously develops the local struggle in every locality against jim-crow- ism, seg: tion and all forms of discrimination. The trade unions and unemployed councils must really become the chief instruments of struggle for the daily needs of Negroes, cementing in practice the unity of white and ‘o and laying a firm foundation for the liquidation of the influence of white chauvinist ideology. The rising struggle of the Negro share croppers in the Black Belt already requires major emphasis on the South in our Negro work, the political and organizational strength- ening of Southern forces (with major attention to developing native Southern cadres) and the earliest possible re-establishment of the Southern Worker. The struggle of the impoverished farmers against dispossession” and mortgage sales, for governmental relief, against the monopolist price “scissors,” must be given increased political and organizational guidance by every District of the Party. Special forces must be trained in the industrial cities to establish close connections with the impoverished farmers in the surrounding territories. Mutual supporting actions of farmers and workers must be organized on every possible occasion. The coming municipal and state elections must be systematically litilized by the Party for raising all local struggles to a higher political devel. The Party must mobilize the broadest possible participation of Workers and exploited masses in these elections around its program of Struggle for immediate needs. Not a single local election must be allowed to pass without organized Communist participation. In the penetration of new territories and especially in the hundreds of small industrial towns, the Party must not hi te to put forward on its ticket outstanding non- Party militant fighters; and wherever necessary to obtain the broadest Miass participation and to isolate the reformist leaders, to participate in thevelections in the form of workers’ tickets within which the Communist Party participates under its own name. “New forms of revolutionary parliamentary action must be systemati- €ally develop by sending elected workers’ delegations into all public hea- Fings organized by governmental and semi-governmental bodies in con- mection with any question affecting the life of the masses. _ The improvement of the Daily Worker as a mass paper and the extension of its circulation must become a task of the entire Party involving also large numbers of non-Party workers. The directives oi the 44th Plenum for a rapid change and improvement’ in the contents of the Daily Worker, which have only partly been carried out, must be ap- plied with all seriousness and persistence, Se various mass organizations (workers’ clubs, language organizations, cultural, literary and dramatic societies, workers’ choruses, etc.) to meet the special needs of the most various groups of workers must be syste- Matically encouraged and given the widest freedom and initiative within their special fields, at the same time, drawing them closer to support of and participation in the general class struggies. Old habits that still persist in some sections of mechanical guardianship and direction over Sich Organizations must be drastically eliminated. The same holds good for such general mass organizations as the International Labor Defense, forkers International Relief, Friends of the Soviet Union, League of gle for Negro Rights, etc. Each of these organizations must have Own independent life, of they are to function effectively as broad 1on-Party organizations. Especially must active non-Party workers be drawn into leading positions in all these organizations. The narrow con- @eption of such mass organizations as “auxiliaries” of the Communist Party must be thoroughly eliminated. The participation of Communists in such organizations must be made the means not of narrowing them down to a Party basis, but on the contrary, of broadening them out to inelude tens and hundreds of thousands of workers on the basis of their interest and participation in the special activities of the particular Organization, without obligating them in any way to the Communist Party except in agreement to Communist participation in the general poy ‘THe P:. ‘y is faced with enormously increased responsibilities in this Period of the end of capitalist stabilization, at the moment of transition 6 @ new round of wars and revolutions. It can only meet these respon sibilities and utilize the increasingly favorable conditions, if it seriously Carries through the essential change in its work required for the carry- ‘out of its chief immediate tasks. “This task is to overcome the tion of the Party from the decisive masses of the American prole- tariat, to come before the masses as their vanguard in the struggle against the offensive of the bourgeoisie and against the imperialist ,and to firmly root itself in the decisive industries by means of solid a contacts with the workers,” 510% Reet se and block committees, committees, of | Women Who Work in the United States Reviewed by MAUDE WHITE AGES as low as $1.65 for two weeks work, paid to women workers in Pennsylvania; 16 cents for 18 hours’ work in Connecticut; 2 cents a day for girls in New York State; women working hours at a time for nothing at all on the bosses’ pretense they are “in train- ing.” And while thousands of women are working overtime or putting in a long night shift, jobless wo- men are sleeping out on the city dumps, called Hoovervilles for the starvation president. Girls . are driven to sell their bodies for a meal. At least 3,000,000 women are out of work—looking for jobs and cannot find them. Thousands, un- able to obtain relief,.are feeding themselves from the garbage pails, a ine. UCH facts as these. are revealed in the pamphlet, Women Who Work, by Grace - Hutchins,:in the special edition. now ready for. In- ternational Women’s: Day. Workers will find it easy’ to read. It is a mine of information on every as- pect of industrial work affecting girls and women. A special section on the war industries describes briefly the role women will be ex- pected to play in the next imper- ialist war which is going on now in China and South America. NEGRO WOMEN WORKERS In the section on Negro women it is pointed out that the 2,000,000 Negro women at work are especial- ly_ oppressed. “They. are . exploited by the capitalist class more than any other group of workers. They do the dirtiest jobs at. the’ lowest pay and are bargained off against white women workers in the gen- eral drive for the reduction of wages. A greater proportion of Ne- gro mothers must go. out to work for a living, even while the child- ren are still babies, because the husband’s earnings are so small that they cannot possibly support the family . . .-Wazes of Negro women are practically always lower then the waves of white wo- men.” A Negro stockyard worker is quoted as saying: “I don’t talk much, because when I get thinking about the oppression of my race, I only want to fight. We're not only fighting for bread. We're fithting for so- cial equality for all.” i Ba E the special edition for Inter- national Women’s Day, March 8, a page is devoted to an expla- nation. of the day.and its signific- ance. Workers and organizers will find this pamphlet can be used by the thousand in their work of organizing women workers, and should order copies (at 5 cents a copy, discounts of 25 per cént.to 35 per cent. when ordered by the hundred) from Workérs’ Library Publishers, Box 148, Station D, New York City. Letters from Our Readers SUGGESTS EXPOSE OF THE FEDERATION BANK New York, N. ¥. Editor of Daily Worker:— / Dear Sir: I read your news item relative to the Amalgamated Bank with in- terest and a great deal of ‘satis- faction. But while you are at it defend- ing the rights of those explojted clerks, why not tackle that Tam- many Hall ruled institute known as The Federation Bank & Trust Co., of which Mr. William Green, president of the American Federa- tion of Labor is a prominent Dir- ector and closes his eyes to the fact, that all the clerks, I am one, are none-union. > We belonged to the Bookkeepérs, Stenographers and Accountants’ “Union,” before- this. much adver- tized so-called labor bank collapsed. But since we have been .re-opened with a Tammany Hall lawyer as the president, and a Mr. Shana- han as the whip over the office staff, conditions have become un- bearable and we have no union. - Salaries are abominably. low, hours long and tedious. No justice or fair play given us workers. No overtime, no extras and this insti- tute has the backing of organized labor. Here is another chance for the Office Workers Union to get busy and organize us. Sorty I dare not sign my name, I would be immediately discharged and blacklisted in every bank. —Q. READER. WANTS STILL MORE SELF-CRITICISM New York, N.Y. Editor of Daily Worker:— Dear le: Why doesn’t the “Daily” more Bolshevik self-criticism in articles. This seems to be forgotten. All articles seem to deal with suc- cessful demonstrations and mobili- zations. I have never seen a head- line reading “Picket line around X shop fails to materialize,” or dur- ing this summer when the Y. C. L. and Party in the Bronx were mo- bilized for picket duty at Bronxdale pool only a few showed up, why wasn’t there a headline reading: “Communists fail to show their solidarity with Negro young work~- ers.” For the above the “Daily” should have written the facts, the reason for failure of a successful mobilization and the correct meth- od to be carried out in making suc- use its cessful demonstrations. Why not have a few articles on the front page criticizing severely and sharp- ly until it cuts to the bone, attack- ing some speakers who do not show up to meetings on time? Comradely, —BF. Dail Contra / rker’ “HERE, MY SON, A NICE SOFT BED OF BAYONET? fOR YOU TO LIE IN?’ By Burck Homevess Your Buclye JUSTICE IN BRITAIN. “Neither defendant is charged be- fore»me with any offence, nor is it necessary. to prove that they have been guilty of any offence. I have merely got to say whether or not there has been proved a condition of things which makes it reasonably probable that the defendants in this case may be guilty of conduct which is calculated to provoke a breach of the peace and will in all probabi- lity do so.” This was the statement of the magistrate (Sir Chartres Biron) in sentencing Tom Mann, 76-year old British Communist leader, and Em- thys Llewellyn, leader of the unem- ployed movement, to prison under the provisions of a 700-year old law dating from the reign of Edward III. “Reasonably probable...may be guilty...caloulated to provoke.... will in all probability do so.” The mere fact of leadership in the :Com- munist movement is now sufficient to throw workers into jail on the suspicion that they may—at some future. time—“disturb the peace.” England has gone a long way on the road to Czarist Russian “justice.” 4 SPLENDID TRADE UNION WORK IN GERMANY. The revolutionary opposition won a brilliant victory in the Wittenberg local of the German Municipal Workers’ begun by Martin Luther, the Com- munists elected the entire slate of union officers. The whole executive committee of the Duisburg local of the Carpen- ters’ Union is now Communist. After successful: conclusion of the strike in the Neumann Textile Mills in Rummelsburg, 52 new members joined the Red Trade Union Op- Position. ‘The Opposition elected a majority of the executive committee of the Reichenbach local of the -Metal Workers’ Union. These are but a few instances of hundreds of revolutionary successes in the union work in Germany. 204 STRIKES IN GERMANY IN DECEMBER 1932. Strikes:can be waged and won even ina depression, as “s shown by the | statistical summary of labor disputes for December 1932 in Germany. Strikes were declared in 204 facy tories, 62 of which were wholly suc-- cessful, 9 ended with a partial vic- tory, while only 15 were lost. Of the remainder 114 are still on with the outcome unknown, and 4. were short protest. strikes. This shows that strikes won were more than four times the number lost. STRIKES CAN BE WAGED AND WON IN A CRISIS! wee GERMAN SOCIALISTS VOTE FOR MONARCHIST. City elections were recently held in many Central German cities. In the ensuing election of city council officers such as president and viee- president the Socialists (who had a@ majority together with the Com- munists ‘in many cities, with the Communists the larger group of the two) made a pact with the Steel Helmet and Nationalist councilmen, voting for their candidates rather than having Communist town offi- cials. ‘This was done in Marseburg, Hohenmoelsen, Teuchern, and Bit- terfeld. How bravely the Socialists are fighting the reaction and Fascism in Germany! eee COMMUNIST VICTORY IN BIG SHIPYARD. ‘The Communists won a striking | victory in the shop council elections just held in the biggest shipyard in Hamburg, Blohm and Voss, the builders of the Majestic and the new liner Europa. The unity slate polled 995 votes, gaining 7 delegates, the reformists got 775 votes and 5 dele- gates, while the combined Steel Hel- met and Nazi slate polled 164 votes and seated only one delegate. Two years ago, in 1931, the reformists topped the poll with 9 delegates to 8 for the red opposition. Today the Communists have a clear majority in the shop council. haa | THE UNITED FRONT OF THE GERMAN SOCIALISTS. Hitler is Chancellor of Germany —the German Socialist Party cries to high heaven for a “united front of all working class parties to com- bat Hitler.” Of course, their kind 4 International Notes By ROBERT HAMILTON, Union. In this historic | town, birthplace of the Reformation of united front, with the rank and file of Socialist workers cut out and the rich Socialist leaders carrying out all negotiations! But the hypocrisy of this demand is illuminated by the action of the Socialist Chief of Police in Leipzig, Fleissner. Without giving any reason | for the decree, he has ordered the suppression “of all open-air demons- | | trations, especially parades already organized or to be organized by the | Leipzig organization of the German | Communist Party until. further no- | j tice.” The demonstrations of all| other parties, including the Fascists, remain untouched.’ This on the very day that Hitler took o’fice, is a flazrant example of how insincere the Socialists are in| their fake struggle against the Hit- | ler-Hugenberg regime. The only! party that is fighting a real battle! against the Fascists, the Communist Party, is the only party suppressed by a Socialist Chief of Pelice! So- cialist workers of America — take notice! | Pisa aa | SOVIET PROLETARIAT FOR THE GERMAN WORKING ‘CLASS Telegraphen-Union, cpitalist |Txman onéws agency, ‘ reports that | in» several factories .in. the. Soviet | Union, including Moscow and Le- ningrad, ‘meetings were held to dis- cuss the police murder of nine work- ers in Dresden, resolutions were adopted’ pledging unswerving solid- arity with the German working class and its leader, the Communist Party of Germany, and protesting against the Dresden bath of blood. This’ by way of answer to the renegades who claim that the Soviet | Union’s proletariat is no longer in- | terested in the revolutionary moye- ment in capitalist countries. oe Ce HALLE, Germany, Jan. 23 (by mail).—Heinze, Communist alde:- man, was elected President of the Board of Aldermen of the town of Muecheln at the recent..meeting of the Board. All the other officers elected are also Communists. rare iar y More of the same! The Socialist Chief of Police of Hamburg, Schoen- felder, prohibited the Communist Party demonstration against the Hitler-Papen dictatorship planned for February 1st. This is the wev the Socialist leaders are fighting Hitler! | The few Socialist government. offi- cials not yet thrown out by Papen are licking the government's boots to keep their jobs. Socialists again in the role of Teaction’s lackeys NAZIS | The Berlin “Vorwaerts” 1s very much annoyed at the unconcealed admission of a German Steel Helmet leader that the organization of “vol- ; untary labor service” involves a uni- | ted front from the socialists to the | Hitlerites including all the bourgeois | parties. The Socialist organ claims that} their collaboration with the Nazis; “4s solely of a technical nature.” It} complains that the Steel Helmet | leader’s speech tends to “impede un- derstanding cooperation with the of- ficials of the Voluntary Labor Ser- vice.” Voluntary Labor Service is not vol-| untary! It is the entering wedge of compulsory labor, of slave service for the German unemployed. That does not hinder the Sccislist lesders from endeavoring to mobilize their | followers behind this scab organiza-, tion. ¢ 8 «8 HAMMER AND SICKLE FLYING OVER GERMAN TOWN j of Oldisleben, a small town near the Communist Party as chairman and vice-chairman of the Council. Almost all the committee posts are -also held by Communisic. A num- ber of motions were edopied by the council to the effect that: 1—The police is excluded from sessions of the town council. 2.—A red flag with hammer and sickle is to fly from the town hall. 3.—Steps are to be taken to en- sure the supply of wood and bread and reduction in the water tax for tnremployed on public relief. 4—The council immediately de- mands of the state government that the slaughtering tax be abolished. eae ae BREAK-UP OF HITLERITE STORM TROOPS The inner demoralization of Hit- ler's storm troop detachments on the | merely adults in miniature. HALLE, Jan, 24.—The town council , Heldrungen, elected two members ot | ON THE WORK OF THE “YOUNG PIONEERS” Philadelphia, Pa, Editor of Daily Worker, Dear Comrade:— At a resent meeting of the Young Pioneers of America, I noticed the following mistakes that can easily be corrected: 1—Agenda too complicated for children, 2.—Inefficient troop leader. What do I mean by a “too com- plicated agenda.” - First it seems to me that few of us realize that children are children and not If this were true there would be no need of @ special children’s organization. When we hold long meetings, speaking’ on war, unemployment, ete, the children will do as they did at this meeting, become rest- jess and disorderly. I do not say that we shouldn't teach our chil- dren these things; of course not, that is what our organization is for, but I do say that we should use a little child psychology’ and make all pioneer meetings as in- teresting as possible. Comradely, —G. W. G. Ir. pene ena RE Ta MOLDER WANTS HELP TO) ORGANIZE’ TH.:EE SHOPS' DECATUR, Ill—The Wagoner Mal- leable Iron Co. has dished out another er five per cent wage reduction. I am a molder by trade and used to work in this same foundry in 1930 and made from $30. to $35 a week. Now the molder on the same work only makes about $18 a week if he works every day, but he only works three to four heats a week, which is only 1%4 to 2 days. This makes} almost a 70 per cent decrease in} wages in the last two years, ‘This is an unorganized shop. I would like to hear from some molder organizer to give a-lift here and see if we can organize these shops as) there are two more here, the De-| catur Malleable and the Mullar Foun- | tain Fixture Co,, for I sure would like | to see an organization here.—R. Editor's Note:—This worker, who {s| ready to organize the workers. in| these three shops should get in touch with the Trade Union Unjty Council, 209 W. Randolph St., Chicago, to which the Steel.and Metal Workers! Industrial, Union is affiliated. The national address of the ‘latter is ‘at 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. These | organizations will give him advice on how to conduct the work, | But the work itself should not wait | for help from outside. This worker correspondent should try, by cautious ' development of contacts inside these | shops, to organize small groups of | three or four workers who trust each | other and are willing to organize with | a view to developing a struggle on; immediate grievances inside the shop. | The demands should be worked out by these workers themselves, with the | advice of the Union, Chancellorship is indicated by @ Nuernberg dispatch to the Halle “Klassenkampf” of January 24th: } | “The disintegration of the storm: | troops in Franconia (Lower Bavaria) | is continuing unchecked. The first meeting of the expelled stor troop-' ers took place on Sunday, at which’ it was discloscd that four-fifths o¢ | the Nuernberg troops had left the \ Hitlerite party.” . ae SOCIALISTS IN AIR DEFENSE BOARD The “Luftschutz-Verband” is a | Militarist German organization for | the increase of Germany's air ar- maments. That is nothing new—) every capitalist country has its Navy Leagues and the like, But the significant thing about this war-mongering concern is the fact that its executive. commitiee com- priscs— alongside former Defense Minister Gessler, Dr. Koettgen, chair- | man of the Siemens trust, General von Stuelpnagel and other like wor- thies—these prominent Socialists: Gradnauer (former cabinet minister), Heimerich (Mayor of Mannheim), and Suedekum (former cabinet min- ister), This is another indication of just how much the pacifism of Social Democrats is worth. Judge Thomas, Hillquit and their international So- clalists not by their pretty speeches, very eve of Hitler's accession to the but by their deedg SUBSCRIPTION RATES: The appointment of the “ser- geant” was no less important than the appointment of the “captain.” While the “captain” had to deal only with the prison officials, the “sergeant” had to handle the “pri- vates” under his command, deal with the prison guards and the soldiers on duty. It was his duty to see that all the formalities were observed. In this respect the role of the captain was much easier, as he had to deal with the prison Warden, whose rank was lower than his, whereas the men in the convoy who came to take the pris- oners away rank no higher than the guards and sentinels. Further- more, the “captain” would not have anything to do with the prisoners, but the convoy would, and they would have to treat them in the same way as they would be treated by real guards. All this the “ser- geant” had to see to. Both “Anna” and I knew a man suited for this job. It was Comrade “Marcel.” He was a cool-headed, staunch, steady, resourceful man, a class- conscious revolutionary Marxist who had proved his level-headed+ ness many a time in moments of danger. He was quite suitable for this responsible part so fraught with danger to himself and the others. Mt AE teat by us, he listened without interruption to all we had to say, then made some per- tinent enquiries about everything that did not seem to him quite clear in our plan. Then, without any further preamble, he assented with a simple “All right.” ‘The very same day, we discussed with him whom to select as con- voy men, sent for them and ar- ranged everything. The attitude of the workers was typically proleta- rian. ‘ “There's rescue work to be done. All right, of course you can depend on me.” Only “Baldy,” ever bubbling over with enthusiasm, declared before he left: “One thing is understood, how- ever, comrades. After we kidnap them, I, in going with them inside ESCAPE from the: GALLOWS By FELIX By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.50; 3 months, $2; 1 month, 75¢ - $A. excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign and ate Party US. Canada: One year, $9; 6 months, $5; 3 months, $3. ate KOHN: over the city. ~ Both on our way and in “Anna‘s” flat, we checked in detail- what had already been done, and. what still remained to be done, and worked out in detail the order in which the kidnapping of the pris- oners was to be performed. Our passport bureau was already working on the document that waa to give the full names of all prisoe ners, and was to bear the signature of the Chief of Police. We were to get it the next day. The only thing that held it up was the file number and the date of dispatch, which had to be written with the same ink and in the same handwriting as the signature of the Chief of Police The enquiry about the out- going file numbers had already been made at the prison and.no delay was expected on this score. The document was to be delivered by “Von Budberg,” while I was, to call up the warden, as already mentioned. Upon receipt of such an order from the Chief himself, the warden would hardly think of verifying its authenticity, as the telephone message was to inform him that a written order was. to-be handed to him personally by a gen- darme captain. All this was finally settled. The uniforms and the arms were ordered and were to be delivered the following day to the same flat from which our detachment of “policemen” were to march to the prison. POLICEMEN FOR CONVOY We preferred to have policemen instead of soldiers for the convoy for the following reasons. Police- men were not expected to show real military snap and a police uniform was much easier to make. We knew of several cases where prisoners sentenced to death were conveyed by policemen from ‘the prison to the Citadel, because the gendarmes were overworked trying to rope in more human material for the gallows. The fact that our men would find it easier to im- personate policemen than gen- darmes also influenced our decision. The question of suitable quart- ers was also another hard nut to crack. The attention of all the in- habitants, not only of the adiacent flats, but of the entire district would certainly be drawn to any “I witnessed a drill parade that no doubt was unique.” the van, want to be the first to tell them that we are setting them free.” Everybody laughed at his boy- ishness, but his. proposal received the approval of the rest. Raa, ene We rushed the preparations day and night. We almost became obsessed with it as the plan prog- ressed, ® ‘ I communicated with our mili- tary “organization, which immedi- | ately sent an officer-instructor, who was to train the captain and the future convoy men in the shortest time. They. were to be. taught everything necessary in the milita- ry line, and this instructor was to go over the uniforms carefully and attend to all the small details in connection with their duty. We knew of many cases of failure that could be attributed to a minor ir- regularity in the uniform, and therefore we used every precaution to be on the safe side. I gave the instructor a pass to a flat where all his pupils were to meet. The same evening I went there to see whether everything was in order and how everything was getting on. I witnessed a drill parade that no doubt was unique. | DRILL PARADE The instructor and all the men assigned for instruction had all taken their shoes off—some of them were even barefoot—so as not to make a noise as they executed right-turn and left-turn, marched in single file, fell in line, formed squads, ete. Deep silence reigned in the dimly lit room, broken only now and then by half-whispered words of command. My appearance interrupted the drill for several minutes. The in- structor was so carried away by his role, that he commanded: “At- tention!” when ‘apprised of my presence, i But he immediately came back to earth end amidst the general pyatier of the men, corrected him- self: “No, no! Stand at case!” “Anna,” too, ‘was impatient to learn how they were getting on, and she called in. The officer re- assured us: “They are picking it up wonder- fully. I am perfectly amazed.” So phase of the matter seemed to be all right. A ews che E went away. I took “Anna's” arm, and we directed our steps to her flat, looking in no way dif- ferent from scores of loving couples that we met on our way home. We aroused no suspicion among the soldiers, police and gendarme de- tachments which were scattered all flat from which ten policemen -in charge of a gendarme would sally forth. Notwithstanding the frequen- cy of searches and arrests then being made in every quarter of.the town, they still created a cértain sensat'on on the spot, which would have been extremely dangerous both both for ourselves and*for our cause. For even if the authori- ties should take care to coneeal from the population of Warsaw the disappearance of fen prisoners sentenced to death, it would be-im- possible to hush up the exploit. for any length of time; and as’séon as the news of their having been kidnapped by revolutionaries po- sing as policemen has become known, it would be an easy matter to put two and two together-and to connect these affairs with the ten policemen previously seen leav- ing this flat. By tracking down this flat, the secret police would be given a clue sufficiently Strong to permit them to replace the fes- cued ten by ten other comrades who would be offered up to the insatiable Moloch—police and mil: itary terrorisni. - a at Y eae ola the question of ‘the flat now began to loom big, though we never thought of {t/in the beginning; the success of “this most hazardous undertaking large- ly depended upon its correct’ soju- tion. eded in solving this dif- ficult provlem, thanks io the very meacures of public safety adopted by the police in connection with the prevailing martial law. ‘These measures unexpectedly came to our rescue. The authorities ordered “ell houses ‘vith exits leading to two different streets to close one-and allow only one gate to be used day or night. ahve Ser “We must get a flat in ore’ of those houses with two exits,” “was “Anna's” prompt suggestion.” | T did not immediately eateh on to what sie bad in her mind, ¢ “We will let thom ott through the gate that is supposed to remain locked. We can have a key miade to-morrow from a wex impression that we can take right away.” ”- She knew of such a flat onthe first floor ser ron Jerusa= lem Strezt. The cnivanes was-close by the gate. “And whe. chout toe houss-owne ers?” “They are on side, quite re- liable people. I will attend to” it early tomorrow morning, and I. will bring a locksmith with me,’ (TQ BE GONTINUED) ~