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<p>[Page 63]</p><p>improving camp matters, the motives being purely factual. If the gentlemen who launched the letter were so confident of getting a majority on their side, all they had to do was put our proposals to a vote and have them defeated, and the matter would have ended there. The 3 gentlemen [Burkard, Wehrs and Hering] simply wanted to put an end to the secretiveness and the spending frenzy, but that's exactly what the men behind the letter were afraid of, as they might have lost a few personal advantages. Dornmähle has been managing the cooperative since its inception, on a daily salary of 3s 6p. Any businessman could have done the job, and there are plenty of men who have very little money and get no subsidies from a company, as Dornmähle does, and would have jumped at the chance to earn 3s 6p a day. There are other such cases and while this is not true for Berblingen himself, he surely hopes to get something out of it, maybe a medal. None of us would begrudge him a medal, we all freely admit</p>