A Communist Plot Unmasked!
Hitler-Ginsberg, Adolf
By Adolf Hitler-Ginsberg A Communist Plot Unmasked! tjERF ire some facta that I* doubtless escaped the attention of even the most alert citizens of our great, though somewhat bedraggled,...
...They will shake her to the very foundations of her existence...
...In the South we must spread this enlightenment among the Negroes as well as white workers...
...The Revolution of 1918 and the Weimar Constitution gave them votes and equality...
...An Allan Jones asks his bosrd to send him to the hardest and most needy part of the South...
...In a starved, unemployed country, Hitler Is the great dispenser of patronage...
...We do need their cooperation now...
...And it is a task...
...or at least, make Congress do more for »em than just pass that Amendment...
...it seeks not merely to defeat ratification by the state legislatures...
...They have gone away from this prejudice—J...
...A few are hesitating to tackle such a gigantic task, but others are plunging boldly Into the fight with seriousness and high hopes...
...That the children saved for industry from the state take lower wages than their fathers is just a coincidence...
...the proper place of the child is in the home, where the father has full authority over him, with the sanction of God and of the state...
...We must have a vast educational movement and it must . be self supporting...
...woman a good German husband...
...We will have leaders from both races working on their own people and exchanging cooperatively at every chance...
...Did you know that the people were allowed to forget it for a while but the insidious movement to break up the American family is ginhk on again...
...Times-Union, sent on to us by a comrade In that state...
...I have my own plans for spread i ing the movement It is to hava i Socialist missionaries who are i self-supporting...
...It will take leaders from the South who know the particular prejudices of their own people...
...Propaganda, insidiously planned for the overthrow of the American government, goes on...
...Believe it or not, that is precisely the argument employed by reactionaries, debauching the fair name of religion to support them, in blocking the Amendment nine years ago...
...It is nothing new for anti-child labor laws to be denounced, but the Bolshevik angle was a new element at the time...
...By running a farm they will provide food for the table...
...i For Both Races We are taking advantage of every strategic situation to educate for Socialism...
...They don't even know there is such a workers' movementt Socialism hasn't touched Georgia, which polled around 800 votes...
...But they will not be enough...
...And they are going to move the South...
...They deserve no credit...
...that unions destroy the "liberty" of workers to toil as long as they want to and at as low wages as they care to accept...
...The line of what, for want of a osttcr word, we can call reasoning, wveaiod in the editorial, is not J*fy important, except for one it is not confined to one •oltorial in one ignorahtly edited *Pw in the South...
...In one stroke he gave them two things—Jobs and a scapegoat Thousands of jobs will be made available by the edict against the Jews...
...The claim that legislation prohibiting child labor is a blow at the sanctity of the home and is repugnant' to God, is being trotted out again now that the drive for the ratification of the amendment has started again and is gaining momentum...
...Each of > these will be a unit for Socialist [ education...
...I have a plan for starting a String of these educational centers all over the South...
...Some Socialist Heroes A. John Dillingham, returns from Yale to work with his own people, the underprivileged Negroes, in s section where Negro life is held cheap, and lynching is a common practice...
...It is inconceivable that these women and men, the hope of their defeated country, will be forever silenced...
...Ask the mill-owners...
...Nothing of the sort eluded our eagle sye...
...He has added life and vigor to the Socialist Local in Nashville and the entire- state...
...South Carolina is still further in the dark with only 87 votes...
...And now they are to go...
...Some of our best brains realized this...
...We are a backward and ignorant people...
...We must unite the interests of the industrial workeas and farmers...
...Of course, it will take leadership of ability and consecration...
...it is part of a campaign of hysteria against all advanced and progressive legislation everywhere...
...It is a good thing to be warned...
...My theory is that we must put Southern Socialism on its own feet...
...tjERF ire some facta that I* doubtless escaped the attention of even the most alert citizens of our great, though somewhat bedraggled, country...
...But they have a different outlook, a grim and stolid determination...
...He takes a small church in an obscure part of Georgia...
...In the case of women in the higher clerical posts the bulletin merely notes that they "May be accounted as belonging to the Socialist Party...
...We ask the good will and cooperateion of comrades everywhere...
...In an absorbing article in the London Daily Herald, Ellen Wilkinson, . well-known Socialist and former member of Parliament, asks: "Are the women going to accept this reaction tamely 7 It is impossible to look forward more than a week at a time in the Germany of today, but my Impression of the women leaders I was able to meet was that they were not so cowed as the men...
...According to Comrado Wilkinson again: "The economic basis of the Nazi movement Is that it is the greatest job trust In history...
...it is general...
...How he Is going to supply the husbands is even mors mystifying than how he is going to supply the jobs...
...We must guard against capitalism splitting us on race prejudice...
...that laws prohibiting the employment of women for more than a certain number of hours a day destroys their "liberty" to work all hours of the night...
...Save the Home...
...They went away from this backward and unappreciative South, the South that always stones or kills her sons who develop into prophets...
...These schools will carry the Socialist message to the Southern workers...
...Did «u for example, know that the goJnjBttnisti of the United States m «o strong that they caused both houses of Congress to pass by well over a two-thirds vote a measure designed to nationalize all American children...
...Even her own sons of former generations have deserted her...
...The Jews were the first victims of the Hitler drive because so many thousands of them, after the revolution of 1918 and under the liberalized influence of the Social Democrats, rose to places of power and prestige...
...they know God is on, their side...
...The Highlander Folk School, a school with a radical program for workers' education is the result...
...Our efforts must be correlated...
...We have hardly been touched by the Socialist philosophy...
...We must plan...
...The price for a place in the sun was not so dear away from hereNew Generatione New generations bring new blood...
...God, it appeara, is opposed to legislation that would destroy the legal right of the father to permit his child to go into the coal mines or cotton mills...
...But this is just the beginning...
...I think it is also generally k n 0 w n that the s u p r erne object o f Hitler and the German Fascists was to combat the revo1 u tionary e 1 e ments ofGermany which the financiers and cap It a 1 1 s t s, Jews and Christians alike, fear and hate...
...And our reactionaries are quite certain that God doesn't approve of that...
...I am also a * mountaineer...
...The South has felt Howard Kester...
...He has been a perpetual thorn in the fleBh of Southern complacency...
...Can it be that we are slipping, that an Amendment passed Congress and was ratified by several states Jsithout our having heard of it...
...They have no illusions about their task...
...They are here—A Howard Kester, for four years struggling almost singlehanded to establish the Fellowship of Reconciliation...
...I believe it can he made self-supporting...
...It is not merely against the Child Labor Amendment...
...Whole battalions of young women doctors, research workers, public officials, teachers have sprung up in the last fourteen years...
...They see their inheritance and accept it...
...Gertrude Baer, the pacifist leader, and others too numerous to mention by name, have been the fruit of this period...
...I am free to speak frankly about the South...
...They accept her as their birthright...
...New philosophies of life develop...
...We needn't have worried...
...Boarding students will bring small tuition payments in money if possible, or vegetables otherwise...
...The amendment was on the high road to ratification by the requisite number of states when such a nation-wide propaganda was launched against it, and it was temporarily blocked...
...A Voice from the South By DON WEST Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tantieme* | AM a Southerner...
...And we need the cooperation of comrades In ather sections to help us get started...
...Not Neither did we until we Had a couple of editorials in a Southern paper, the Jacksonville j(Fla...
...There is Claud Williams, almost a modern miracle worker, going through the "School of the Profits" fas Vanderbilt University and remaining a radical preacher...
...So far the excuse has been not that they were women but that they were Jews or Marxists...
...which absolutely would have taken the control of children from the people— practically from birth to eighteen years of age, to be under 'Federal Control,' even as in Russia...
...A Marshal Steele turns down a high salaried church in the East to take a struggling little church in his own state, conservative Arkansas...
...They have centered their efforts in the North, East and West...
...They are going to stay with the South whether she wants them or not...
...to every loya...
...This, then, is our task—to enlighten, to agitate, to educate...
...Some can have small - and simple Socialist schools These - schools can be launched in many i sections for workers' education...
...Our old traditional conservatism and race prejudice still dominate our lives...
...He has identified himself with the class struggle to the extent of helping to lead a strike...
...Did you joiow that the Communists were »o strong that they were able to intimidate five legislatures into ratifying that measure as an amendment to the Constitution...
...Today young men of the South are rising up with new visions...
...Now, that sounds serious, and What worries us most is the fact that alert as w,e are (or try to be), |we cannot recall any such proposed amendment to the Constitution...
...Those workers seemed more interested and approachable...
...The women of Germany have made tremendous strides since the war...
...when reactionaries begin to worry about the sanctity of the home and of womanhood it is safe to guess that there is something afoot...
...Today, of course, there is no possible chance for resistance, but tomorrow will undoubtedly be another day...
...that employers' liability and workmen's ' compensation destroys the "liberty*' of men to risk their necks in dangerous fire traps...
...When the law steps in and says Stop...
...It won't be very long before Herr Hitler's promisee will come home to roost The outstanding promises were: "To every true Germsn a Job...
...Already numbers of women doctors, nurses and officials have been dismissed from their posts...
...Toni Sender, whom we all know and love...
...and which now seems to have come sack to life with five new ratifications within the past month or two...
...It was natural, of course, that some of the prominent,, women leaders should be Jews or Socialists, often both...
...Do you see the red hand of Mobsow in that amendment...
...When the universities were open to them Jewish women streamed in, and conditions were such that many of the women students became Socialists...
...The South has been dead to any progressive leadership...
...Radical leadership is bought with a great price in the conservative South...
...Elisabeth Aschenhelm, famous children's specialist...
...I have been called to account for saying this, but I can see no point in becoming a Jewish Fascist just because the Jews in Germany are being persecuted...
...That's "overthrowing the government" for you...
...They may not love the South any more than sons of earlier days who tasted her fruits, found them bitter, and went away...
...Dark Conspiracy You might wonder why it was ¦at the two conspirators in Moscow, thus able to twist both houses sz Congress around their fingers, *» not go the whole hog and just «¦» over the United States...
...He has broken all respectable tradition by getting the people to erect a church to be used equally by whites and Negroes...
...They are staying to fight for social enlightment in the conservative South...
...Frau Wachenheim, one of the Prussian film censors and member of the Reichstag...
...They see all her Ignorance and backward prejudice, but their lot is cast...
...Time and again they have been told by the Nasi leaders that woman's place is in the home, and her duty the recreation of the tired warrior...
...Here's the Dope Now take a deep breath and get the full details of the projected ^overthrow": "Some years ago the Soviet and the Third Internationale were definitely connected with the movement to place all the children of the United States under the direct control of Congress...
...Anything that tends to break that authority is a blow at the family, and quite naturally of God...
...The Nazis have no use for women as leaders, as administrators or as responsible workers...
...It was not so long after the Saratov and Samara bedtime stories had been given wide currency here (you recall the "Nationalization of Women" yarns), and people were prepared to believe anything about Soviet Russia—even that opposition to child labor could not be understood except as a "red" plot Here is the argument...
...Do you See the insidious machinations of Lenin and Trotsky in getting Con#*•** to pass the hellish measure ¦7 s vote of 297 to 69 in the House ¦nd 61 to 23 in the Senate...
...A few of the other states show more hopeful signs, but as a whole they are all sadly unenlightened...
...John Thompson returns from Union to Join his strength to the Southern forces...
...Many Socialist leaders probably think we are so hopeless that it's foolish to waste time on us...
...Maybe they just didn't think shout It at the moment...
...The first editorial is headed, (¦Communists Continue in the U.S.A.," and it begins: "Active work of Communists continues in itsis country although there is not to much apparent to the average onlooker...
...It Is their task...
...And so Hitler is going after the next thorn in his aide—the women—particularly the working women...
...To the half-starved people of Germany, crushed under the taxes of an outrageous peace treaty, and suffering from the ignominy of being declared guilty of the World War, there is one object of hatred almost as great as the Jew who has a good job, and that is the woman who holds a job some man thinks he ought to have...
...the state has intervened and has substituted its authority for that of the father...
...The proposed amendment reads: "The Congress shall have power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age," That's all, except (or « strictly administrative second section dealing with the rights end power of the states...
...It's easier to be a leader away from here...
...Being raised in a mountain clan, I know well the clannish spirit and individualism peculiar to the mountains and the South...
...And that in Arkansas...
...In agriculture ' they must identify themselves with i the farmers...
...Hitler had to give his followers something...
...Against the very traditions of conventional prejudice, he has steadily moved forward...
...Lecturing on Socialism in Georgia I find the workers entirely ignorant of its meaning...
...This editorial is symptomatic of the new drive being pushed everywhere...
...The South is where they should be...
...B. Matthews, Kirby Page, Bruce Curry, Broadus Mitchel, and many others...
...The best brains of the new generation are not seeking to leave the South...
...Organise cooperat tives similar to the farmers' co' operatives of Denmark...
...This school, simple and inexpensive in set-up and overhead, is just the beginning of an educational movement which we plan to spread all through the South...
...The editorial refers to the so-called Child Labor amendment Which was referred to the states in MM, was promptly ratified by five states, and then mysteriously died...
...In farming sections these schools ran be a natural part of the community, sponsoring cooperation and teaching the workers...
...The argument is on a par with others constantly used in attempts to block other forms of labor legislation...
...Leave It to the Eagle-Eyed4 Editor to Scent Disaster In the Anti-Child Labor Amendment...
...By Gertrude Weil Klein "Women Next," Says Adolf IN a previous article on the developments in Germany I said that it was generally known that the funds to equip and support Hitler's Brown Shirts came from German financiers and capitalists and that among these financiers and capitalists were also some of the Jewish faith...
...We have these leaders now...
...A Myles Horton, experienced and able, returning to Tennessee...
Vol. 15 • April 1933 • No. 16
