The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-19

of. this assistance consisted Of
"Turnerschaft" in Stuttgart
alone and over 600 others all
over Wuerttemberg.
None of this information ever
found its way into the American
press and we received it in single
spaced, typed eight-page letter from
Copenhagen, which turned out to be
q little treatise on how to conduct
underground work after your party
or organization has been pronounced
illegal.
Before the festival" reads the
quantity phrased communication, ga
leaflet was edited in number of
$4,000. The Stuttgart comrades dur
ing the end of the games were able
to place copy in every wardrobe in
the tents in spite of the hermetic con-
finement of this tents by the police"
Examples of other activities follow.
1t would be pity to re-word the
narrative: "The red sportsmen of
Wurttemberg had resolved a maneu-
vre for their appearance during the
regatta which was even as simple as
effectfull. At a certain point of the
Neckar-river above the regatta place
which is not easy to reach, the stream
was tried through the drift of a
wooden block. Before the beginning
Of the regatta game, the comrades
put into the Neckar-river 100 pieces
of quadratic wooden blocks on which
were placed little red flags with ham
mer and sickle.
During the match, the little Sow
jet flags came sailing into regatta
territory. The Storm Troopers, great
est part of whom could not even
control their boats, were fishing in
the regatta for the scandal
during long time A great deal of
the spectators were seen laughing
heartily at the involuntare comic of
the Storm Troopers ana smiling at
the successful trick of the red sports
men. And many thousands of spec
tators were convinced that the red
sports movement is living and work.
ing.
"COEBBELS could not help but
u mention in his speech the sctivi-
ty OF the red sportsmen. On the main
festive-day we let 1000 children-bal-
looms ascend to which was fastened
propaganda material and addresses
where like-minded could apply. Most
of the balloons we're driven by the
wind over the whole territory of east,
middle and South Schwartzwald.
Such balloons came down in Horb,
Schwenningen, Freudenstadt, etc.
"In all these towns the police kind
ly and ingeniously summoned
through advertising in the newspa-
pers not to answer addresses, which
were fastened to the balloons but to
deliver them to the secret state-po-
lice, and so they involuntarily made a
splendid propaganda.
"The dayly speeches of the Nazi
leaders were very badly frequented.
The Saar demonstration, participa-
ton in which was a duty of honor,
and which took place on the market
place of Stuttgart, collected less than
10000 spectators.
"At the national festive hour-the
main political demonstration of the
festival, which every delegate was
bound to visit and to which the dele
gates were driven by all-often dra-
comic means, were 10000 of the 100,-
900 delegates.
1.-THE speeches were greeted with
very tepid applause. The famous ar
tificial poses of Goebbels exploded
in an ice-cold silence and more than
once cause the impression of embar-
rasment.
"VN THE street parades it was ex-
pressly forbidden to sing certain
songs but this the delegates disre-
garded. The red sportsmen simply
whistled the revolutionary songs SO
theprohibition did not really accom-
plish its aim for the sympathies of
the proletarian population belonged
to the red sports1nen and their ar
rangment.'