Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-12

in nationwide drives.
Her caricatures of Hinden-
burg and Hitler and other
enemy leaders were repro
duced In the Party press. She
organized theatrical groups
which toured the German
Northwest; the most famous
and talented of these groups
was called the Red Report
ers."
Without receiving a penny
of remuneration. she worked
from morning till night. She
was kept too busy to realize
that her plunge into Party
work doomed her hopes for a
legitimate career as an artist.
At times, when she was tired.
she would ponder and ask:
"Whero does all this lead
to-"
forward and upward" I
would answer. I'VE have no
time TO be tired"
/ had stopped my. sallies
into the field Of literature.
When / wrote, I wrote for the
Party press. My articles and
sketches appeared in a num-
Der of Communist dailies and
weeklies,
On orders from Wollweber.
I had cut short all efforts to
publish my book, "Scum's
Wake" In the United States.
Instead it was censored by the
literary department of the
Comintern, to eliminate devil
atoms from official Stalinist
policy, and In mutilated form
it appeared In the camouflaged
German Communist press con-
trolled by Willy Muenzenberg
and several trade union pub
locations in Soviet Russia.
HIS CONTRIBUTION
Since I was a salaried en-
ploye Of the Comintern, / was
formally requested to contrib
ute the payments due to me
toward the successful COM
pletion of the Five-Yea
Plan" ] did so cheerfully.
AS a reward. 1 was norni-
mated to the post Of honorary
president of the League of
Proletarian Writers in the
Northwest District.
l had also written two one
act plays which were entitled
Signal of Mutiny" and The
Sailors Enemies" They were
both accepted by the Party
and subsequently performed
by the Communist theatrical
groups aboard the largest
liners OF the North German
Lloyd in Bremerhaven. includ-
ing the crack ships Columbus
and Bremen. causing a greater
disturbance in shipowners' cir
cles than a month of intensive
strike agitation.
The plays were open incite-
rrcrts 20 matiny,---verit
commands TO the crews 10
seize the ships and to- hoist
the Red flags when the time
was ripe. simultaneously with
logged propaganda aboard the
vessels OF the North German
Lloyd, the company that
practically dominated the old
Hanseatic m etropolis of
Bremen.
Great. therefore, was my as
constituent. when / was APP
preached one day by a repre-
sentative of the Lloyd Verlag,
the publishing house of the
North German Lloyd. The
representative invited me TO
call at the editorial headquar-
ters of the company for a con-
fidential conversation with the
editor-in-chief of the Lloyd
Journal. Loyalty I wired
Wollweber informing him of
the fact.
BE careful" he replied,
"their object Is bribery. But
the contact may be of value"
The editor-in-chief received
me graciously. She was
cultured woman. a certain
Miss Won Thuelen, the sister
OF one of the most powerful
personages in the North Ger
man Lloyd.
Serenely she informed me
that the company had been in
formed that / experienced
financial difficulties in COM
pleting my term at the Nauti-
cal School. She offered me a
contract TO write one article a
month for her magazine, a to-
tai of j pieces at 200 marks
each. ] refused. She then
asked me if / would consider
translating the official tou1st
guide for 1881 of the North
German Lloyd from German
into English.
This tourist guide was well
known in all North Atlantic
ports. II was a 200-page book
praising the beauties of Ger
many. Miss Won Thuelen of
fered me 1000 marks TO do
the job. I accepted.
The tacit understanding
was that / should refrain from
all further efforts at stirring
up trouble among the crews