The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-11-30

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cal belief.
"The British Trades Union Congress
went on after that and no mention
was made Of it. The president of the
Electrical Workers Union No. 3, sat
on the platform with me. He did
nothing. Had been permitted to take
the floor l would have gotten into an
argument with about thirty Com
munists sitting in that convention.
When the Communists finished up,
within a day or day and half, they
adjourned.
"It was wonderful experience!
was glad to be there, but no fraternal
delegate was permitted to make an
address. l was introduced at the be-
ginning of the Congress, and at the
close of it, but there were statements
of NO speech making We were told
we would have time to merely convey
the fraternal greetings of this coun-
try we represented. 1t took me about
minute and half to do that, but
the speech l had intended to deliver
was printed in the minutes of the
convention.
"Now, if | may be permitted, |
might digress and say that / visited
three of the countries that are in war.
spent twelve days in Germany.
got out the day before the lid was
put on. | was on the North Sea when
Hitler went into Poland, and l rode
from Edinburgh, Scotland, to London
on the last train that had dining
car.
Germany Is Completely Modified
For War
81 saw more preparations for war
in Germany than anywhere else. |
saw the Black Shirts, boys Of ten and
twelve, march up Under den Linder
before the hotel where was stopping.
Everything was preparation, but the
Germans did not want war and did
not think they would have war. 1t
is my opinion that if Hitler had
thought England and France would
back up their declarations he would
never have gone into Poland. He made
| this compact with Russia and from
what | learned over there, he paid
price no sane man would want to pay.
Russia backed him up in Poland
farther than they were expected to do.
"You know what Hitler did to the
Jews in Germany, and there are more
Jews in Poland in proportion to the
population than in any other coun-
try He is now evacuating the Ger
mans from all countries. When | was
in England it was reported that a
million and half Germans were be-
ing brought from other countries and
put into Poland, and the Poles were
being taken out of Poland and dis
tributed in German territory.
Soldiers in France and England March
to the Battle Front
France and England are prepared.
saw thousands of soldiers in France
going to the front in trains; | saw
thousands of soldiers in England. |
was just across the dock on the other
side when | saw three boatloads of
soldiers going to France. France and
England are playing a waiting game.
Germany is hard pressed, particularly
for foodstuff. When | was in Ger
many they were on food rations, and
those rations have been reduced since
war started.
"France now has got the most pro
ductive coal district in Germany. We
went down the Rhine from Wies-
baden, and tugs with from two to
nine barges of coal were as thick on
the Rhine going up as automobiles
, are out here in the street. You would
see five or six tugs running along
side of one another, and those barges
strung out for half a mile behind
them. How they did it | don't know
but the French have those coal mines
now.
Balloons Fill Air in Industrial
Districts
"All over England and France, par
ticularly in the industrial district
there are many thousands of balloons
high in the air. They are about the
size of the Goodyear balloon that sails
around Washington, which perhaps
some of you have seen. There are
various instruments in those balloons
| am told they can detect an alrplant
for miles. They are filled with gas
and Immediately an airplane hits one
it goes into flames.
Myriads of Bomb Shelters For
Protection Against Air Raids
"There are trenches everywhere anC
dugouts, as they call them, boml
shelters, and there is great business
now in France and England in sane
{ sacks. All along the streets in Lon
, don they are used for protection
, About the hospitals they put frame
up TO the second and third stories ant
then sacks Of sand all the way up
5 1t is quite a business. They arC
) profiteering over there. Just before
, we sailed statement came out tha
, sand is the greatest breeder of in
t sects known, and so they are nov
spraying the sand sacks.
{ Gas Masks Are Mandatory: Procedure
Is Intricate
, "Whcn | registered at the Savo!
| Hotel had to sign card giving tn,
name, date of birth. and all sorts O.