Humor of the

12

Underground

IESE stories come from the

occupied countries. Reprint-
ed from underground papers,
they typify the wit the peoples
of Europe have turned against
their oppressors, a4 wit that no
Nazi censorship can suppress.

HOLLAND
AS old Dutehman is having a
political discussion with An-
ton Mussert, the too-well-known
Duteh Laval “What will you
do,’ asks the Dutch patriot,
“when the Allies win the war?”

age to get their neighbors slapped
for what they do.”

The Rumanian officer thinks:
“What a brilliant fellow I really
am! I kiss my own hand, then f
sock the German officer.” All
this thanks to a tunnel!

“FRANCE

A LITTLE old lady is walking

a little old dog along the
Boulevard Montparnasse in Paris.
A German officer stops. to pet
the animal. He has decided to
be polite. He talks about the
weather, the color of the sky.
The little lady answers quietly.

“Nothing _ very complicated,” “Ach,” continues the officer, “the
answers Anton Mussert. “If the sky is lovely, but look at the
DILEMMA

Allies do win, I will put my hat
and coat on and walk out.” And
the old patriot says:

“Ves, I see, but what will you
put your hat on?”

RUMANIA
HE scene is a train compart-
ment. The characters are a
German officer, a Rumanian of-
ficer, an old lady, a young and
attractive girl. The train plunges

“into a black tunnel. The passen-

gers hear first a kiss and then-a
vigorous slap. Lhe train emerges
into light again. Every one re-
mains silent.

The grandmother thinks: “What

-a good child she is. I really have

brought her up well. Such good

manners, such strength!”
The girl thinks: “Why did
grandmother slap the man?

After ali, she is pretty old and I
should not have thought she
minded a kiss. And anyway, IL
did not suspect she was capable
of such a hard slap.”

The German thinks: “Pretty
smart fellows those Rumanians.
Not only do they know how to
steal kisses, but they also man-

‘sad!

streets!

So bare, so empty, so
Is this your Paris, your
smiling, enchanting, gay Paris?”

The little lady looks up deter-
minedly into the officer’s face
and, with a sigh, says: “Oh, sir,
you should have come when you
were not here.’

NORWAY

A YOUNG Norwegian is sit-
ting on a lonely beach. It
is about 9 a.m. and he is quietly
reading The London Times. Sud-
denly a voice startles him. “Don-
ner und blitzen, what are you
reading?” The boy is caught. He
has nothing to lose any longer.
He holds up the paper to the
centrys nose.

“Ach and this morning’s edi-
tion, too!” Fritz explodes.

And the boy, quietly, “Oh, I
happen to be an old subscriber.”

ITALY

AN American is talking to a
German prisoner—“What are
you going to do when the war is
ever and when you are sent back
to your home?”

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Local Noe. 649

Mine,

COPPER MOUNTAIN
MINERS’ UNION

Extends May Day Greetings to
Canada’s Workers and Warriors

International Union of
Mill and Smelter Workers

- Box 42, Copper Mountain, B.C.

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“Well, Pl get hold of a bicycle,
sir, and pedal around the whole
of Germany.”

“That’s fine, but what will you
do in the afternoon?”

BELGIUM

A GERMAN tourist gets out of
a train in Liege, leaves his
bag on the platform and rushes
out of the station to buy some
cigarettes. When he returms a
few minutes later the bag is
gone. He yells at the station mas-
ter, “What sort of a place is
this? I leave a bag for a second,
I return and my bag has van-
ished!”

“To pad, sir, too bad, but not
half as bad as what happened to
a friend of mine last week. He
got off at Potsdam, left his bag
on the station platform, went out
to buy a drink of beer. And when
be returned—not more than three
minutes later—the whole station
had vanished, sir.”

DENMARK
ANES, when introducing
themselves, eften mention

their profession along with their
name. Thus a man may say, “I am
Engineer Christensen,’ and so
on.

One night the bell at the gate
of a big radio parts factory be-
gan ringing.

A plain little man standing
there, said to the watchman who
opened the gate:

“Pardon me, but are you the
factory guard?” :

“Ves.” d

“Good evening. I am Saboteur
Jensen. I have come to blow up
the factory.”

Then the plain little man
pulled a revolver and covered
the guard. Ten more saboteurs
eame out of the shadows, and
they went in and blew up the fac-
tory.

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May Day Greetings

To the Readers of THE PEOPL

FISHERMEN stand

THE FISHERMAN
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shall soon become an agricuicural state, Fritz

for

UNITY in every industry

UNITY between all trade unions

UNITY of the Labor movement

UNITY of the Canadian people
for

VICTORY in the war

SECURITY in the peace

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Fraternal

May Day

Greeting:

from

Boilermakers & Iron Shipbuilder
Of Canada - Local No. |

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