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Director -2- | May 7, 1937 underground work aboard giant Reich liners plowing between New York and Germany, and that the meeting would take place at the Mecca Temple, 133 West 55th Street, New York City, and that it would be a mass meeting, ani that the organizer, who was then (April 27, 1937) in New York Harbor aboard a Nazi steam- ship, would come to the meeting, puerded by American sailors, and that he would speak, hidden by a mask. It was again stated that General Butler would speak. y "The Daily Worker,” issue of April 29, 1937, printed an article entitled, "Seamen Who Fight Hitler,” by Rex Pitkin, which tells more of the contempleted Mecca Temple meeting. The Fitkin article speeks of the mesked man, how Pitkin met him and called him "Karl," and thet Sar] was a seaman on a Nazi liner, and how Karl offered him, Pitkin, a cigarette, and, after Fitkin had lit it, it went out, and how Karl smiled and seid, "Break it open," and that, upon the ciperette's being opened, there was found contained in ita faightly rolled, thin piece of paper. Pitkin opened it and reed & messare to German soldiers, workers, and peasants, telling them to unite against the sending of 4itler's soldiers to Spain, ete. It was signed by Heinrich “ann, brother of Thomas Hann, head of the newly-formed German Liberty League in Germany. The article then states how "Karl" told of how these cigrrettes were distributed among, the members of Germen crews on Gerzen liners, and how Karl then exhibited a copy of the organization's underground seamen's mper, “"Schiffahrt," and told of many such underground papers being distributed in Germany in many industries, and how the successful strike of fifty thousand Awtericar seamen in the United States was forced, and how eight thousand Sermn seamen each month who entered the Port of New York, left the Schiffahrt” and other literature where they could be picked up by the crews, and how they are able to recognize the Gestapo agents (German secret agents) who are on board every Germen liner. The Pitkin article will be found attached.