The Netherlands: section of "Knickerbocker Weekly" of April 28. a free Netherlands publication issued in New York. which. by the way. I can recommend to you all. cóntains an interview with a young Hollander who had left the Netherlands March of this year. and who speaks in a frank and open manner about all in America". he ys. "that we had enormous strikes in Amsterdam? At the end of February the Nazis were provoking trouble with the Jews and arrested them wholesíle., Then all of a sudden it started. One after the other the post-offices, the tramcars. the trains. the waterworks and what have you went on strike. All of a sudden and quite spontaneously. The Germans first thought that it was all organized but there was absolutely no truth in that.
"The clockworkers of Amsterdam marched into the Jewish quarters and hid themselves in the houses of the Jews in pairs. one down stairs and one on the first floor. As soon as a Nazi entered he was attacked from both sides. Four hundred Jews had been arrested. but if not everybody had opposed it and if people had not paraded on the streets with posters: Hand us back our Jews. things would have been worse. Do you know that the students threw themselves in front of the tramcars to prevent strike breakers from operating them? Of course the tram conductors did not receive any wages for the days they had been on strike, but did they receive tips after they resumed their work!
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