Nazi Labor Policy Is Revealed; Lid Clamped On Sports Clubs
Feigenbaum, William M.
By William M. Feigenbaum Nazi Labor Policy Is Revealed; Lid Clamped On Sports Clubs Workes Who Expected Some Sort of "Socialism" Now Know Better—Employers Rejoice at Hitler-Goebbels-Goring...
...J"I1 K Nazi rulers of (lermany have been so busy persecuting Jews, murdering political opponents and hollering Heil that they have not had much time to formulate any of the policies they promised would create the paradise in the Third Keith they have been so noisily promising (or over ten years...
...Lid Clamped On Sports Clubs Workes Who Expected Some Sort of "Socialism" Now Know Better—Employers Rejoice at Hitler-Goebbels-Goring Brand of "Socialism...
...Missouri Delegation Missouri delegates will concentrate in St...
...You see, the philosophical *-* anarchist wants a society based upon small autonomous communes...
...Siegfried Ameringer, Box 777, Oklahoma City, is making arrangements...
...Bill W Joe Get Almost Dizzy Discussing Tight-Wire Artists But Finally Gain Their Balance By Autolycus "I KEEL almost a revolutionary urge today," said Joe to 1 Bill as they met in the Rand School lobby...
...Thousands of groups numbering 700,000 mem'era maintained hundreds of gymnasiums, camps, swimming pools and athletic fields and offered the workers something they had never before enjoyed...
...When Jack began writing his amazing novels and short stories of the frozen North, the Klondike was the golden land of romance...
...The Nazis have clamped down their rule so brutally and thoroughly that the appearance of a sin gle Nazi in uniform is sufficient to accomplish anything tho gsng wants done . . , at least for the fin...
...There was also a publication, and at the school were about 100 employes— teachers, editors and clerks...
...S. Lerner, Nebraska ?:ector for the Continental Congress, reports five concentration points and directors as follows: Koy Heinlein, Grand Island...
...I didn't have the patience...
...This information has come via Prague, Czechoslovakia...
...Milwaukee and Chicago Milwaukee and Chicago congress delegates are working for a special train to start from the latter city Friday, May 5, with at least 150 delegates who can go by car...
...Hi and an a 1876, in a fruntit he was: the agei on the fifteen h the ozoi Franc iscc was a de At eight) nineteen failing to ing that more tha metal—a that brm much mi dreamedi effectively do in tho matter...
...said Joe...
...Sports Organization Liquidated At the same time information comes of the liquidation of the Workers' Gymnastic and Sports All nee by the Nazis* It was a simple thing—a few brown-shirt hoodlums walked into the schooi maintained by the Alliance in Leipzig—and that was all...
...Wbaddaya mean...
...Roy Burt, former miner and now Cook County Socialist secretary, is in charge of Illinois arrangements...
...The Nazi ideal was expressed by the great Goring, who has said woman's only function is to solace and give pleasure to tired soldiers...
...It isn't very important in itself, but it is an indication of the labor policy millions of German workers voted for in the belief that it would bring them emancipation from oppression...
...And here is the new "National Awakening" for the workers: There is to be no fixed wage, but rather three wage scales...
...Have you ever noticed that the fireeater is often the very worst opportunist...
...The alliance maintained a school at Leipzig to train teachers for the various aspects of its work...
...and so began that memorable address...
...Already the Central Labor Union, the Carpenters and the Machinists of Kenosha have voted to send delegates...
...Jack London had lived and written their dream life, their escape from the realities of humdrum existence...
...In the meantime the delegations mount daily...
...Dance" 1 wich Ho* April 291 All of states re Marx Li Washing...
...B. Cohen, 904 Olive Street, ia in charge of transportation for Missouri...
...New Agreement A new collective agreement has been entered into for the building industry of Coburg...
...v. The Workers' Gymnastic and Sports Alliance is one of the greatest of the achievements of the Socialist movement...
...No, too long," said Joe...
...Lack of balance, the very shilly-shallying which you assumed the parlor Bolshevik lacks in common with the fireeater," Bill replied...
...Wilson, North Platte...
...You certainly are becoming a parlorite, believe me," said Bill...
...Sam Lerner, Omaha, Houston Trades and Labor Council, Texas, has officially endorsed the congress, as has the Houston Non-Partisan League, which is the trade union political body...
...Sure, agitation for the social revolution should never be neglected," said Bill, "but while we keep in mind the future let's make that revolutionary aim correlate with present needs...
...That was some balancing, going forward and backward at the same time," said Joe...
...Yes, I getcha," said Joe...
...Now that the German people are enjoying the Third Reich, the representatives of 95% of the workers were shoved aside and the two "cells" alone were consulted...
...I still haVe that revolutionary urge," said Joe...
...In the past the two organizations were so insignificant in numbers and influence that they were ignored by the labor tribunals...
...And as the Stories poured forth from his wonderfully fertile mind, making real not only the Klondike but also the turbulent Pacific, and the Road with Its hobo jungles, millions of men felt uneasy stirrings vithin them...
...Louis, then to Indianapolis, and cn to Washington...
...Bryan proposed to destroy the trusts and revive small production...
...1 read an article by a parlor Bolshevik—that's what you call 'em—and he hit the nail on the head...
...They point out that the "National Awakening" has disposed of the troublesome trade unions and by substituting the officially recognized Nazi "unions" they have something tangible to boast of as their gain from the Hitler uprising...
...John Sobcsak, Milwaukee organizer for the hosiery workers, has been appointed state director for Wisconsin, and is seeing that all the unions in the larger cities are visited by congress speakers...
...The athletic fields have been barred to members of the Alliance, although in some cases there have been definite contracts for years in advance...
...I "K"P U balanced," said Bill, as they parted...
...What Rudyard Kipling had done for India Jack did for Alaska and the Klondike...
...asked Joe...
...The employers' press is jubilant over the decision...
...Take the national platforms of the Communist Party in 1028 and 1932...
...Don't pull that stuff on me," said Joe with a trace of anger...
...q, "Yea, bo," said Bill, "but our parlor Bolsheviks and fireeaters are more like the squirrel in a revolving cage...
...to emphasize the second and Ignore the first is utopianism...
...Queer ducks, aren't they...
...Louis for a special train or several special busses...
...I never thought of that," said Joe...
...The Nazi Ideal All this was shut down in a moment by the Nazis, whose nobie ideals do not allow for athletic training for women...
...Regional Elasticity" is a scheme by which employers can allege cost of 1'ving as an excuse for reducing wages...
...Disputes over wages must be «•-' - 'Mi "representatives" of the workers...
...That's it,*' Bill replied...
...No one can now represent the workers except a Hitlerite, who will meet rr -esentatives of the employers— who by a strange combination of circumstances will likewise consist of Hitlerites...
...They had no use for the Socialists, the 'authoritarians' they called us, but quite a number of them even gave up their prejudice against voting to the extent of casting a vote for William Jennings Bryan...
...Going Forward and Backward "¦ At K of balance," said Bill...
...Parlorites and Tight-Rope Artists THERE are two types," said Bill...
...This information has, of course, not come directly from Germany...
...We can," Bill replied...
...The position of the War Department will not keep a single delegate away from the congress...
...To concentrate on the first and ignore the second is middle class opportunism...
...Information can be secured from Cohen...
...One is the Utopian revolutionary who eats fire, who thinks of the future end does not know the present...
...And you're a tight-rope performer trying to balance yourself on a steel wire...
...Our fire-eaters organised in this country in 1919 with a program denouncing all such proposals and now they shovel a hundred or more of them into their platforms...
...Hitherto agreements were negotiated by the labor tribunals with the Socialist trade union organizations...
...How do you account for it...
...At the same time employer-, mir- reduce the wag^- -* " ise whose output is considered below par...
...They were long because every Imaginable thing the fire-eaters could think of were scooped into them in the hope of catching votes, including a soldiers' bonus and self-determination for Negroes...
...Delegates from nearby ritity* Mrv re.liiJ'.l.-nl (*» ham at 3252 special t gional M down-eut common farmer...
...And that's where you get mired in reform," Joe replied...
...It's better to be alive and active than to be the central figure at a funeral...
...The arrangements committee is completing a list of suitable rooms at fl a night The list will be sent to all delegates...
...They were so long that each made a good sized pamphlet...
...Oklahoma delegates are arranging to gather in Oklahoma City and then travel East along Highway 06 to St...
...otherwise they must dissolve...
...C. II...
...How could they do that...
...They remind me of the philosophical anarchists in the nineties...
...Jews—if any are left—and Socialists will probably be found to be below par...
...However, that great statesman, Hermann Goring, late of the lunatic asylum and now Premier of Prussia, told a vast throng the other day that the Germans mustn't forget that the Nazis are not only Nationalists but also Socialists...
...Your call was enthusiastically and unanimously endorsed," writes C. A. Culmore, secretary of the Beaumont Trades and Labor Assembly...
...asked Bill with mot k concern...
...I'm tired of shilly shallying and want to get something now...
...We must fight for what will immediately help the working class but consider this struggle as merely a part of the larger struggle to abolish capitalism...
...One is th fixed wage, modified by "regional elasticity," while at least 10 per cent of the workers must receive a higher wage for "greater output...
...its very name was glamorous...
...i bers join tation SI In wit books ol free to | to help I for thcii zationa which w spread I mond, ft April 86 a big Hi reports 1 with gsi Virginia, in repral will hall to give I and helpi New Met the .livd stop evst a public stamps I Kress | Primer...
...And so it was with bosoms almost li' ?rally bursting with ;le that we young Socialists f that day laid claim to Jack London as one of our very own...
...Louis Socialists are making arrangements to entertain delegates with identification cards before and after the congress on their way to Washington and home...
...That shows that the fire-eater can also be ss unprincipled an opportunist as the respectable reformer...
...Socia| "|*HE youth of America had two literary idols in the brave Roosevelt days of the first decade of this century, Rudyard Kipling and Jack London...
...young, strong, handsome, almost unbelievaly pr- ilar, stepped upon the platform of the old Grand Central Palace, before a vast audience of college men and women, and spoke: "The other day I received a letter from a man in Arizona...
...And of the two Jack had a direci personal appeal that those who were not youths in those days can never appreciate...
...asked Joe...
...The greatest piece of working class statesmanship in this century," is the opinion of a Texas farmer as he writes of the congress...
...And here's the first "Socialist" action of the new regime...
...I'm serious," said Joe with earnestness...
...they're always running, they're amusing to watch, but who wants to be a squirrel ?" "Hut can you balance reforms with revolutionary aims...
...There have been few thrills to compare with that moment in J uary, 1905, when Jack London, newly elected President of the newly e.ganized Intercollegiate Socialist Society (now the L.I.D...
...And when he held out his hands and saidJ are | toe ad 'Thtl Stop, Brest | hii •% Two run f« and klj wide ¦ few'e, much cause i For Ji figure si copy...
...Jack was a real MAN, a man with muscles like steel and a stomach that could digest scrap iron, a man who lived more stories than he had time in his brief forty yearoi life to begin to »et down...
...You can't mix the two together...
...After all you must admit that by maintaining his balance the performer does not fall and break his neck...
...asked Joe...
...Fire-Eaters and Opportunisti "IT would have occurred to you if you had read the plat• forms," said Bill...
...Numerous Milwaukee unions are now acting...
...He said only agitation for revolution counts...
...to Clarer St., Chic...
...It began, 'Dear Comrade,' and it was signed, 'Yours for the Revolution.' X answered him, and I began my letter, 'Dear Comrade,' and signed it, 'Yours for the Revolution.' There are over 400,000 men in this country who begin their letters, 'Dear Comrade...
...The other is the reformer who knows something of the present but has no revolutionary aim...
...Well, let's leave the wire and get back to the parlor," said Joe...
...The alliance led the world in creating the new clear-eyed, wholesome athletic type of man and woman...
...F. D. McCormick, Alliance: Fred Hoppe, Columbus...
...And no physical training that is not definitely war training is acceptable to the half-wit Hitler...
...One is as fruitful as the other...
...Well, it is difficult to classify them," Bill replied...
...You don't feel a verse coming on, do you...
...asked Joe...
...In one locality the Nasis resolved that only those giving their members a "Christian people's education" may continue...
...Ever read them...
...Both are shallow and lack consistency...
...The new Nazi labor tribunal ignored the Socialists and dealt with the Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellen-Organisation and the Stahlhelm Selbtthilfe, the former the Nazi "nucleus" and the latter the "trade union" of the Steel Helmets...
...The National Awakening does not want the world to know what it is doing—and it wants to bellyache about "misrepresentation...
...What do you mean by parlorite...
...1 don't like the analogy," Bill replied, "and yet it has a certain aptness...
...His was a Utopia of small capitalist owners and a reversion back to small property appealed to the anarchists as a march forward to their idea of what society should be...
...By a curious coincidence members of the Nasi Party will probably be found to be producing better than hated Social Democrats...
...That brings us into the presence of your parlor Bolshevik," said Bill...
...So they gave a vote to the Peerless and Beerless One...
Vol. 15 • April 1933 • No. 16
