_(As a contribution to the discussion On German trade union reorganization, P.A. Presents the second part of an interview with Paul Mer- Ker, refugee anti-Nazi leader. The first Part was published™ two weeks ago.) MEXICO CITY — Since la- ris in a better position than any other .group in Germany the leading Nazis to know who are, its direction of local desig- nations of authority would be : the surest mearis of cleaning up: those areas where occupa- tion officials do not effectively operate, Paul Merker, head of the trade union division of the Latin American Free German _ Committee, told Allied Labor ' News: | Pointing out that Allied oc- cupation authorities will not be ; able -to set upzdocal govern- ; ments THEY PUT LITTLE THOUGHT THE YAPS TIGER JOE IN CELL HAD YOU ! ---\wWHAT WITH BARS WIDE HARPENED ? APART! HA--HO! TIGER “OE HAS = SPOKEN ! p JAPANESE : ARE VERY y STuPiD/ ~ (7 a 4 fa @ ry MO by > WitH veapvy, ACCURATE AIM, THE JAP PLANES | DESTROY THE STRONGHOLD OF THE VALIANT GUERRILLAS/ y DOWN! THEY'RE --AND THEY'RE ‘ie GOING TOWARD OUR MOUNTAIN HIDE-OuT! YES--- AND NOW WE SHALL ADD YOUR NAMES TO THAT ROLL OF THE DEAD / their effect. Some sort of Ni underground will. continue 4 exist until the last of qhoi criminals is dug out and” “Labor can play a_ treme; dous role here, too. Hundre of members of the Socialist al Communist parties were “sc into the Nazi Labor Front a5 they will- know who: many | the Nazi criminals are: In:fep the thousands: of German. lal and political prisoneds freed. | the Allies .will, form: aden § cratic nucleus around which:1 § democratization. -of _Germa; can in part; be. built.” Hi ree Sage = pipes OAD | 4 Continued from, Page .13—- 4 Chinese | ; 4 Then we started to fire at the i from all directions. : They withdrew about a cous of thousand yards; and we se out advance guard to crawl uf to our first defense line and r# place the mines. F Then, we advanced to oF first defense line. After a hai} day’s battle, they advanced '% wards us again, and the firir® got heavier. At that point, ¥ withdrew and set off our min § —and killed hundreds of the & again. We tried to fight oi way out through their-lines, b ¥ “eause it would have been ir } possible to stay and defer? their superior numbers. Te Se. At four o’clock:.in ‘the afte § noon, we carried white flag & up to their lines*to make negy tiations for a truce. We tried ¢ convince them that we shoul & -be fighting the Japanese; iz stead. of fightmg each othe ¥ However, when we refused j | lay down our arms, the § pressed in on us again andr § sumed their firing. ai Our men contracted into: of group; then we spread out ine directions to meet them. The § advanced upen us, and we sui- denly withdrew to our secon line of defense and set off o: smoke mines. : ‘In the meantime, our wome fF raised their voices in nation: § battle songs; and led chee: # stressing on uniting and figh | ing the common enemy. \f Under cover of smoke, the: # entire weapon battalion move into our lines and joined us i# fighting the Central troop: y Finally, we broke through the: € lines, and our entire unit witk ie drew to the mountainside. The Central troops entered our vil | lage and started to burn it. iq We lost over two hundre men in this battle, and abou | 400 were wounded. Thirt | of our well-trained ii had been buried alive by thi} Central troops, and twenty. ojf our girl students had beef slaughtered. But not one of ow a men had been captured. & Four of. the political grow }/ hid in the village in foxholes fo i four days. (I was one of them) | after which we escaped to Hon; Kong where we learned that ow entire unit had marched hun: dreds of miles to Hoy Io: Fong, a hundred ‘miles east o! Canton. : ; About a year later, we heari that the unit had increased te fifteen thousand men, and hac |} engaged in battle with the Jap:/]] anese hundreds of times. Ant) the €entral troops are stil looking for them! SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 194!)