Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22
ACTIVIST REPORTS

Off and on | had received
reports our harbor
"aCtiviStS" that they had en-
countcred Bandura on Russian
ships in the harbor, and
ashore in the music dCns OF
st. PAUL. in the company OF
Soviet sailors.
Bandura had no business 10
take him to Russian vessels.
He was the head of the
"activist" columns which COW
cred steamers under the flags
of France. Yugoslavia and
Greece. Persons visiting
Soviet ships were required to
have a pass issued by the
Soviet consul general. Ban
dura had no such permit.
what of it," / thought.
"Bandura Is a Slav, he Graves
the company of his country
men,"
There exists an agreement
between the GPU and the
Comintern representatives in
the various ports which pro-
vides that Soviet seamen in
harbors outside of Russia
should get little opportunity
TO cruise around at will amid
capitalist" surroundings.
The enticement of such sur
roundings had often enough
resulted in the desertion of
Russian sailors, especially of
those who were not confirmed
Communists. Soviet ships in
foreign ports were under the
constant supervision not only
of their own leading COM
mittees and suspicious shore
side police. but also of the
local Communist vigilantes.
The official reason given for
this supervision was to pre-
vent sabotage by anti-Stalin-
list elements. The real reason
was to impress Soviet mari
nerS with the fact that the
GPU is everywhere.
KISSES OUT NEWS
The head of this protective
squad in Hamburg was Hugo
Marx, the pale-faced and
vain GPU fox, who had
entered my life in the stormy
months of 1923. Aside from
his function as head of the
vigilantes, Hugo Marx held
the job of foreman in the
Communist Stevedoring firm
known as Stauerei Einheit.
which chiefly loaded and dis
charged Soviet steamers.
One morning Hugo Marx
appeared unannounced in my
office. locked the door, glanced
swiftly over his shoulder, and
Kissed peremptorily:
Wen have to drop Ban
dura."
"Why So"
"We've watched him closely.
He's been giving us trouble for
years. Who knows IL he's not
In the pay OF Trotsky:"
/ Scoffed:
eff Bandura is a TrOtskyist.
then I'm a Christian Scien-
tist."
Hugo Marx produced a list
of names of Russian ships
Here are the ships on
which Bandura agitated
against the Soviet govern
ment in the last IL MONTHS"
he buzZed. I'm In posses
sion OF written reports from
each of these ships"
whats his line OF agita-
tom" j demanded.
His line IL that the Boil
sheyist Party under Stain has
made itself independent OF the
Russian proletariat. Here are
his exact words: Democratic
centralIsm has become bureau
cratic centrism. You have no
socialism In Russia. but die"
tatOrship OF a cOunter-revOlu-
tiOnary gang Of mOllycOddles.
Stain must 20 before the
workers power can be resur-
rected. Now. what about
that, 1 ask you?"
REMAINS SILENT
I was silent. These were
no trumped-up charges. Ban
dura was well informed on
what was happening in the
Soviet Union. Bandura, de-
spite his homelessness, was a
peasant.
He knew the significance of
man-made famines. He knew
what the GPU troops were
then doing TO the peasants in
the Ukraine. And so, Ban
dura. the rebel, struck back
as best he could.
"Bandura tells the Russian
seamen that the workers In
other countries hate Stalin,"
Hugo Marx continued. zone
Of the sailors on the Krasny
Profintern objected, He told
Bandura he's read In Pravda
that Comrade Stain was be-
loved and trusted by the world
proletariat What do you