Evening star., 1950-04-30
Communists 10 Seize
Wisconsin Town in
Legion May Day Event
BY the Assoeioied Press


MOSINEE, Wis, Apr. 29-May
Day will dawn red in Mosinee as
Communists" overthrow the local
government and unfurl their ham
Iner and sickle banners.
Secret police" will arrest city
officials in their homes. Road
blocks will be set up at the city
limits. The 1900 residents of this
Central Wisconsin paper mill town
will awaken under the yoke of
communism
But don't wire your Congress
man. The "red coup" will be
bloodless; in fact, very make be-
lieve. Yet, for all it's sham, it will
be as realistic as the Wisconsin
department of the American Le-
gion and local citizens can make
1t.
Will Be One-Day Show.
The object? ITO teach by ex-
ample and actual living the con-
trast between life in America and
totalitarian states" says Charles
L, Larson, State Legion COM
mander.
Mosinee will experience COM
muniSm" for one day.
After city officials are seized by
the secret police DICTIONARIES
armed with unloaded carbines and
pistols they will be herded into
concentration camps" to view the
rest of the revolt from behind
barbed wire.
In swift succession the secret
police will set up their roadblocks;
close the churches with paper
padlocks) and jail the clergymen;
close the library, and shut down
and confscate all publications
with the exception of the weekly
Mosinee Times, which will become
the Red Star" and the official
party organ. The Red Star" will
issue special edition.
Copied from Other Coups.
Then the Communist" COM
mando teams will hoist their Red
banners, smear the town with
Communist" propaganda posters
and patrol the streets.
The actual governing of Mosi-
nee will be in the hands of a COM
mittee of Legionnaires selected in
advance.
Copied from successful Commu-
mist operations in other countries.
the program will get it's final
touch of realism from Joseph Zack
Kornfedder, Russian trained spy
and graduate of the Lenin school
in Moscow who renounced commu-
nism in 1884. Kornfedder, who
now lives in Detroit and makes a
living as a writer and lecturer. will
be Mosinee's "commissar" for the
May l coup.
What will the upheaval mean
TO the citizen of Mosinee?
No one will be able to enter or
leave the town without an official
permit.
Food Will BE Rationed.
Merchants will place certain
staple food items on a preferred
list and customers must have a
permit to buy.
Playing the radio will be a crime
against the State. Offenders will
be arrested.
Boy Scouts will parade the town
as members of Communist youth
movement.
In a special assembly, high
school students will be informed
their principal has been arrested
and that henceforth they will
study what the State wants them
to study. The students will be. UNI
formed in dark trousers or skirts
and white shirts or blouses.
Lawyers, doctors, dentists, ETC.,
will not be permitted to practice
(unless. of course. In emergencies)
Signs on their Office doors will say
they are off taking loyalty tests.
Standard Meal to Be Served.
All restaurants will serve a
standard meal of corned beef and
cabbage, dark bread and coffee
with milk but no sugar.
Workers in the mills will be no.
tilted that the State now owns the
company, that their bargaining
rights have been suspended and
that from now on they will work
IL hours a day for wages of $4.O0
a day.
OF course. everything will be
strictly voluntary on the part of
the residents of Mosinee. But,
Francis F. Schweinler, editor and