Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-18

chant fleet. arrived in Goete-
borg from New York.
After landing passengers
and mails, the liner was or
dered TO leave port at once. /
sent my storm brigades into
the harbor. The Gripsholm
was detained by main force
and stripped of her crew of
hundreds. She was the hun
dredth ship paralyzed by the
strike.
One night l wrote leaflet:
"Sailors, form storm bril-
gades"
The storm brigades were
formed. The next night /
wrote another leaflet:
sailors and Fire m n!
Storm the harbOrs. Yank the
strikebreakers off the ships!"
The leaflets were printed at
night on the party presses.
Motorcycle couriers carried
them 10 the most distant ports
of Sweden almost before the
print had had time to dry.
The results made Bolshevist
hearts leap with joy. The
seafaring masses were in
motion, and, for lack of any
other energetic leadership,
they did exactly what the hid
den Communist command bade
them do.
Any attempts of the trade
unions to apply the traditional
and tedious democratic pro-
cedure of proposal. discussion
and vote-taking were simply
torn asunder by surprise ac-
tions of the iron-clad Com
munist minority.
1t all showed me how in
effective democratic tactis are
when pitted against a CEN
trally led conspiracy at the
helm of a frothing mob.
STORM HARBORs
The men stormed the har-
bors and ransacked the black
leg ships. The mass of at
tackers did not consist of
seamen only. The Communist
Party was there, men, women
and children. most of whom
had never before been aboard
a ship. This happened in
Stockholm, in Malmo and in
Goeteborg.
Aboard the Swedish Lloyd
steamer Gwalia, the storm
brigades were not content
with demolishing whatever
came under their hands, but
they also set fire TO the
vessel in several places. The
assaults in the harbors took
place at night. In Goeteborg,
mounted policem len were
dragged from their horses and
disarmed. The police used
tear gas, but being inexperi-
enced. they released their
bombs too early, and the
strikers hurled the gas-con-
tainers back at the attackers.
News arrived from Ham,
burg that several ship loads of
Nazi storm troopers had put
to sea, bound for Stockholm
TO man and sail Swedish ships.
This.-thought no one outside
of the Nazi foreign division
realized at the time,-was
the beginning of a systematic
penetration of the merchant
marines of the Scandinavian
countries, and Holland and
Belgium, by trained members
of the Hitler movement.
Once more, the Comintern
had unwittingly opened the
gates to the Fascists. But
when the news came, il was
water on the Communist mill.
1t offered us the opportunity
TO accuse the Swedish Ship
owners Association of having
entered into an alliance with
the well-hated National So
cialists.
NAILS ARRIVE
or the two shiploads of
Brownshirts expec at
Stockholm that week, only
one arrived. The other had
unloaded its passengers in
Oscarshamn, Norrkoping and
other small ports en- route. 1
found the international Club
crammed with mariners of
varions nationalities. They
had armed themselves with
hammers and axes, clubs,
bottles full Of sand, sandbags,
knives, marlin spikes, brass
knuckles and screw drivers.
They formed themselves into
squads, and their talk was
bloodthirsty. Wild plans were
afoot. They wanted 10 dupli-
cate the KEEL abduction on
mass scale. with storm troop
ers as the victims. Loud
arguments about methods of
torture, one more fiiendish
than the other, were in
progress.
The minds of the female
hangers-on were more in
ventive in this respect than
the minds of the sailors. L
marveled at the monumental
hatred displayed by the nor
mally placid Swedes.
The climax came like a
chilling shower. The German
steamer Alster entered port