WASHINGTON, D.C. Nov. 6 - Native Americans from 250 tribes whose Trail of Broken Treaties Caravans converged on the capital Oct. 30 continued today to occupy the offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), which they have renamed the Native American Embassy. Since Nov. 2 more than 500 Native Americans have held the federal office building housing the BIA, a symbol of centuries of oppression.

Approximately 1,800 Native Americans have come to the seat of their government overseers to demand self-determination and to protest U.S. violation of 387 unequal treaties imposed on them.

November 17, 1947
Oct. 18 - During the second week of September the British Military Government ordered the dismantling of the Holmag plant in Kiel, Germany. When the workers of the Holmag plant learned of the decision to dismantle it, their factory committee decided unanimously to refuse to collaborate in any way with this demolition decree. All the workers immediately went out on strike. Foreign workers employed in the plant participated solidly in the strike. After four weeks of struggle the strike still goes. The British troops have occupied the factory but it has not yet been dismantled.

The action of the Holmag workers is of historic importance. It constitutes the first public and organized demonstration by the working population against the savage plundering measures imposed on vanquished Germany by the Postdam agreement. The Holmag workers have shown by this action that a decisive change is beginning to take place in the psychology of the German working class. This working class had been paralyzed for two years by a mood of total impotence in the face of the overwhelming military economic anti-political superiority of the occupying powers.  
 
 
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