THE NETHERLANDS: Al Frey

More members of labor unions throughout the world are affiliated with the Second (Socialist) International than with any other group. Its secretary is Dr. Friedrich Wolfgang Adler, an Austrian who in 1917 was convicted of assassinating the then Austrian Imperial Chancellor, Count Stürgkh, but was amnestied. Socialist workers throughout the world have long known that Dr. Adler always carries an extra forged passport in the name of "Al Frey" in addition to his own, but Rotterdam police have not. They know Dr. Adler well and one day last August, when he handed them his forged passport by mistake, they arrested him. In vain Dr. Adler continued to protest right up to last week that "it is for use only in Germany and Italy." An unsympathetic Dutch court last week sentenced him to four months in jail.