Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23

camounage more effective. its
E headquarters was established
not in MOSCOW, but in Ham
burg, at s Rothesoodstrasse.
The chief of the his was
Albert Walter. He received
a monthly subsidy of $4,000
for international waterfront
activities. The source of this
money was Sovtorgflot, the
Soviet Shipping Trust, which
deducted il from the wages
of Soviet Seamen and long
Shoremen.
| had been nominated IN
August, 1881, by Georgi
Dimitrov 10 the political
bureau of the ISL. and was
attached 10 its headquarters.
My salary was 5000 a month.
From this vantage point, j
became intimately conversant
with every major Communist
activity in international ship
ping.
The operations OF the ISL
comprised three distinctive
fields Cd revolutionary action,
% communicationS-obetweeH-
the Moscow-Bcrlin centers
and the rest of the world,
80 marine espionage.
CURSE OF OVERWORK
The campaign among ships
officers was only a small
fraction OF the assignments
pitt MY shoulders Shortly
after my arrival at the Ham
burg headquarters. In the
Comintern. the life Juices Of
men are burned out al an
appalling rate
The curse of overwork and
Suffocation in the ocean Of
detail was on all of US.
Functionaries staggered under
a dozen and more tasks.
Protests were of no avail. We
used 10 joke:
"A bourgeois consists ~
flesh and bone: a Communist
consists of functions.
The ISH possessed organiza-
tons in % countries and 19
colonies. Aside from its sta
tionary functionaries. the ISH
employed corps of Is "politl-
cal instructors" who were con-
Stantly on the road, each Of
them responsible for the
smooth functioning of the
Communistwaterfront Apparat
in his territory-the Levant,
The West Indies. the L. s. A.
and Canada. the Scandi-
navian countries, etc.
The ISH operated AZ Inter
national Clubs in as many
different ports. It's central
publication, the lSH-Bulletln,
was issued in 13 languages,
printed in Hamburg, and dis
patched from there 10 Red
waterfront organizers all over
the world.
OF the total monthly bud
get. only about $4,000 went 10
pay for maintenance of ISL
headquarters and field staff
The remaining $4,000 was
sent abroad as subsidies 10 the
organizations affiliated with
the lSH.
To countries which tolerated
Communist Parties within
their frontiers. the subsidies
were usually sent by cable 10
neutral cover addresses or
spurious business firms; 10
countries where the Com
munist Party was forced TO
exist illegally, subsidies were
conveyed by the Cominterns
maritime courier system.
Later, however, the strin-
gent laws prohibiting the en-
port of currency in large
number of countries forced us
10 abandon use of the cables
for money transfers. Couriers
serving in the crews Of vessels
and Communists serving As
employees of international
trains became more and more
the carriers OF confidential
Comintern mail.
Banks, for obvious reasons,
were almost never used for
The transmission Of funds.
Utmost care was exercised 10
avoid all discriminating con-
facts between the Communist
Apparat and the official diplo-
, matte agencies OF the Soviet
Union.
AMERICANS NAMED
In the United States. recipi-
ents of these Communist
waterfront subsidies were.
from 1880 10 1888, George
Mink. and subsequently Roy
C"HorsefaceD Hudson. The
addresses 10 which this writer
dispatched funds were l40
Broad street. and Box l3,
Station o, both in New York
City.
These subsidies included al
lowanceS for the Marine
Workers Voice, for the main
tenance of International Clubs.
for wages OF organizers, for