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danas: hw Director -~3- . ay 7, 1937. ‘In the April 30, 1937, issue of the "Daily Work- er,” front page, there was published a picture of a man with his face covered by a mask, mlled "Hans Schmidt." Underneath is a news article relating to the picture, with the heading, "Fight of Anti-Nazists in Germany. Masked German Speaks at Rally Tonight." The news article quotes Schmidt as saying, "We use a hectograph with wax impressions. We get the news by radio from the underground stations in Germany and from the Spanish Government stations in Madrid and Valencia.” Continuing, the erticle states that Hans Schmidt is not the msked man's correct name, but that he is merely using it this week <= that Schnidt was interviewed by members of the New York press am that he explained to them the means by which the underfrouid German Seamen's Union regularly issues news bulletins aboard hundreds of German ships, saying, "We have such hectographs on every important ship flying the Ger- men flag." It stated that Schmidt stood in the center of a room in the home of Professor Margaret Schlauch, of New York University, number 2 Horatio Street, his face fully masked to shield his identity, and told of the workings of the umer- ground system; thet Schmidt was to be protected at the meeting by sixty members of the International Seamen's Union; that Schmidt's voice would be the first authentic voice of under- ground Germany to be heard in Amrica. It stated that the interview lasted ninety minutes, and thet there was present a reporter of the "New York Sun," who constantly kept firing gestions at Schmidt. Every issue of the "Daily Morker™ since the first announcement of this meeting has been carefully serutin- ized at this office, but nothing has appeared therein indicat- ing that the meeting ever took piace. a > N, Awd Speci gent in Charge RR: 50 TG e SFSCIAL DELIVERY