I imposed in connection with that strike. I saw Jack "Brent who

is very badly wounded. I I I a

One morning I stepped into the ward where Edward Yar’
das lies with a bad wound in his left ankle. My entry gave
him quite a pleasant'surprise.: Each floor in the S.R.I.. hos’
pital is given a name of some outstanding labor leader. I saw
“Tom Mooney," “Anna Pauker,” “Matteotti,” “Carlos Prestes,”

“Raskosi,” etc.

During our visit to Murcia, I was escorted to one of the
villas and sitting on the wid-e veranda we all talked at once
about people and places back home. In the group that day

.were men from Timmins, Winnipeg, Montreal, Toronto, Van»

couver, , etc. Here I met once more my old friend Sam Lang»
ley, who had been deported from Canada in 1931. The dis»
tribution of a few packages of Canadian cigarettes added im»
mensely to the delight of these men.

In View of the fact that the internecine strife broke upon
the representatives of the peopleof Spain with great sudden’
ness and caught them ill prepared to cope with the many re»
quirements, the rapid and successful organization of the extensr
ive system of hospitals, reaching from Madrid backward to the
coast and on to Valencia and Barcelona, was a marvelous
achievement. The call to help in this struggle reached the
sympathetic ears of physicians and surgeons, of nurses and
sisters in all parts of the civilized world. Hundreds responded
and are now engaged in carrying on this difficult and import»
ant work. From every land they came. Great praise is due
to them.

Visifing ‘I-he Men

NATURALLY one of the first things that arrests attention as

one passes from ward to ward is the youth of these men.
“Most everybody is under 35,” was the remark made to me
when discussing the age ofour boys. It is youth that is bear.»

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