Workers and Socialists Are Still Victims of Nazi Savagery
Levinson, Edward
By Edward Levinsoti Workers and Socialists Are Still Victims of Nazi Savagery Toll of Hitlerite Atrocities Rising Higher Each WeekLabor Leaders Beaten and Murdered, Funds Stolen And Millions...
...He was diplomatic...
...It is possible that Dr...
...Am I right...
...I do not mean the greatest Socialist but the Socialist whose achievements in his own field outside our movement were greater than any other man's...
...Headlines and hospitals...
...You've executed another flank movement just when I thought that Autolycus would have a real flght to report," said Joe...
...With Wallhead and John MeGovern, M. P., out of the I.L.P., that party now has but four members of Parliament, all elected as members of the Labor party before the breakaway...
...New1 ( LOCAL N«l two-day l at Camp W« Hudson, Sati June 17 audi include syanjl as follows: Jj the Trade 1 Their Lessd Party...
...Don't mistake riots for revolution," Bill replied...
...people ask when someone Says it...
...Workera too often fight each other instead of fighting their common enemy...
...The refusal of Golosche's mother to consent defeated the plan...
...Bill inquired...
...How come...
...One cannot always advance, U may be necessary at times to retreat a few paces in order to strengthen your forces for an assault under more promising conditions...
...The facts are as stated, but the explanation is to be found in the peculiar conditions prevailing in that state...
...The arrests were so quickly done that families of labor leaders spent days trying to locate them and even then were denied the right to see them...
...It promised aid to the thousands in and out of Germany who have refused to compromise their Socialist integrity...
...He loved the company of men and women from his earliest days in Breslau until the end of his Hfe in Schenectady...
...Have you brought the right set of muscles with you today...
...Not fifty, but several hundred" trade union leaders were jailed— in the Nasi raids of May 2nd...
...Bricks are no substitutes, for books and pamphlets are more effective than pikes for preparing the working class for the social revolution...
...But after one had recovered from the first shock of his deformities, and Steinmetz had genially mounted a stool and perched his body over a desk to dig in for a good, wholesome chat, you forgot everything but his charm...
...So you want to fight because we have managed to keep the peace," said Bill...
...L. S. I. Meets Reports from the Labor and Socialist International tell of a meeting of its Bureau, and of joint meetings with the International Federation of Trade Unions in which leading German Socialist exiles participated...
...A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Deputy Holtermann, former leader of the Reichsbanner...
...You said that last week," said Joe, his eyes blazing...
...But it trains the workers for the final battle, doesn't It...
...At the offices of the woodworkers' union the Storm Troops indulged in brutal physical violence...
...In some cases clerical and administrative staffs have been forced to continue work under new Naziappointed officials...
...Steinmetz worked out certain revolutionary principles of enormous value and presented them in a paper read before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers January Vstold that tan was an er« portance is I research, a] that have ¦ trical progm likewise ben the almost with which t ed it was i metz thereat of books exi ing the n obliged to um and a vocal] processes of 1 standable, to I his own bra search might thoughts...
...In Saxony, numerous trade union presidents were arrested, while others were let off after a beating...
...24~Cha IT was impossible to meet 1 Charles P. Steinmetz for the first time, no matter how much one knew about his greatness, without experiencing a distinct shock...
...Tarnov was arrested and Schleicher, political secretary, was severely beaten...
...I met a guy the other day who said that Autolycus hss reported us as simpering pacifists...
...But remember, I'm no pacifist" "III take your word for it," Bill replied...
...Mushy pacifists ignore this class antagonism and recoil against any fighting...
...He was almost a disembodied spirit...
...That seems to be a good rule," said Joe...
...The incarceration of a nephew of Randindranath Tagore in a prison camp brought to light details of bestial physical cruelty on Socialist and Communist prisoners...
...It helps us to decide when to fight, when not to fight, whom to fight, why to flght him, and when and why to keep the peace...
...Ley also reminded the paper "of the creation of a Sabotage Department in the Prussian Ministry of Justice to which department your work will no doubt be a matter of immediate concern...
...Oh, .you have sometimes got my goat but every time 1 started to kirk you in the slats we somehow cooled down...
...Frau Leipart was permitted to see her husband only after he was unconscious...
...I like you best in the second role...
...The Prussian ministry of the interior has likewise decreed that elected Socialists in local bodies may not take their seats...
...DEOPLE whisper in Germany, * they say, with /lips that scarcely dare to move...
...In the raid on the building workers' federation those not arrested were compelled to sing Hitler songs while the swastika was hoisted over the building...
...Baiting the police in the streets on every occasion, inviting them to club you, are playboy stunts, not intelligent Socialist action...
...Dick" Wallhead quit the I.L.P...
...Most of the trade union leaders were taken to Storm Troop barracks...
...These are but a few details of a single week in Nasi Germany...
...A cautious attempt of the world-famous Berlintf Tageblatt to discuss the trade union "coord...
...But whut is your rule for determining your course in each instance...
...The former Deputies were obliged to resign their seats under cirem the lodging t the Ministry the Reich by Party in B«ri "The corapb dealt with, aa present elecll fear that th< selves in the their predeeaj the new lswl to the Stats | that the asd their npminstl in in wriuej livered in f*j been happensprobable thai resented hiss purpose won] his seat I were made...
...Likewise, the building of the Vollcsblatt In Dessau was captured and wrecked...
...The Thuringian minister of the interior has banned the possible appointment of Socialists as burgomasters Or deputy burgomasters...
...Our interests as a * class are ranged against the interests of the capitalist class...
...la Munich The Socialist members of the Munich city council on May 9th were forcibly expelled by Nazis and taken into "protective custody...
...A raid of Storm Troops on the party printing plant in Vogtland did not end until the plant was completely demolished...
...The Communists made the headlines, all right," said Joe...
...Joe la No Pacifist "I BELIEVE that I'd be happy if I popped you one good * punch in the kisser," said Joe, still glaring...
...Philosophy is essential to a civilised proletarian," Bill replied...
...others...
...Back to your philosophy again," said Joe...
...The dentists are having a bad time," is the latest Berlin "Joke...
...We should be ready to flght for our class if conditions make it necessary and oppose fighting the battles of the ruling classes at all times...
...It is not surprising that under the circumstances many have bent their backs to the Hitler regime...
...Certainly not...
...They were finally taken from the Storm Troops barracks to the prison in Plotxensee...
...Joe Wants To Fight, But Bill Averts Hostilities In Debating Revolution "¦ K'T'8 have a scrap," said Joe as he and Bill sat down on *** a park bench...
...Refusal to serve brings arrest for "sabotage...
...We do not like fighting and will not invite it but will not avoid it if the other course means slavery...
...Its barely concealed meaning will be evident without the need of commentary : "Capitalist newspapers have reported that no Social Democratic candidates have been nominated for the State Parliament and Town and District Councils in Brunswick...
...They're not very flabby, but I prefer brains to bones," Bill replied, watching Joe out of the corner of his eye...
...Steinmetz was the greatest man ever to serve the Socialist movement...
...Well, let's disappoint that guy who wants us to stage a shindy," Bill replied...
...Headlines and hospitals have been the net results of their methods for years...
...These were .the first meetings since the forced "coordination" of the trade union center and the resignation of Otto Wels from the executive of the L. S. I. The reports bring the heartening news of Wels' refusal to attend the session of the Reichstag at which Hitler made his hypocritical plea for world peace...
...asked Joe...
...Bones instead of brains would be another good one...
...Wallhead thereupon "applied for the Labor whips," which is the technical British method of rejoining the party, explaining in a letter to George Lansbury that "in the rapidly developing situation the urgent need of the time appears to me to be the strengthening of the forces which maintain the democratic method, without which further progress becomes well-nigh impossible...
...Communists follow it...
...Leipart, whose leg was stiff from a recent accident, was forced to do knee bending exercises until he fainted in pain and exhaustion...
...Farmers—w Socialist Ps| Discussion I Pierre De Nil and SoclalW several con* River Valleel the Univert* —What R«« pose...
...The days of street fighting passed with the invention of the highpowered rifle, the machine gun, tear and poison gas, and the bombing plane...
...Of the hundreds jailed but one was released...
...it prepares them for police and military ambushes in any such struggle," said Bill...
...We are pacifists in certain circumstances and fighters in others...
...Steinmetz was a great man who looked like a gnome...
...I'm not a pacifist and I don't like to have the reputation...
...Jabbing a hat-pin in the flank of a cop's horse or in the posterior of the cop is reviving the street tactics of the Revolutions of 1848...
...Ernst Eckstein, leader of the Socialist Labor Party, died on May 8th soon after he had been taken into "protective custody...
...ldemil caplta,i8m of tMr respective epun^J^**"' w,n b" <""PP°»nted in not reporting a fight," Jll*"' iik* *headline hospital us,- ssld Bill ss thsy ambled through the park to their rooms...
...By Edward Levinsoti Workers and Socialists Are Still Victims of Nazi Savagery Toll of Hitlerite Atrocities Rising Higher Each WeekLabor Leaders Beaten and Murdered, Funds Stolen And Millions Terrorized THE facts of the "co-ordination" of the German trade union * movement into the Nazi regime reveal the lowest depths of Hitlerism...
...Well, I've cooled down again and 1t seems that I will never reach your Jaw," said Joe...
...Hospitals and Headlines "QUITE a number of them also make the hospital," Bill ^ replied...
...The police spy has always encouraged bricks but hat never found any method of combating sound education which substitutes brains for bricks...
...Jobless Federation HARRISBURG, Pa.—Organisations of the unemployed in Pennsylvania will form a state federation at a convention to be held here June 6-6, according to Louis S. Breler, secretary of the convention committee;-' S o c i a l isi No...
...1 his paper 9 27, he had I States less ti Why There Were No Socialist Candidates The following item is taken from a news-sheet of the Social Democratic Party of Germany...
...The Prussian Ministry of Justice announces more rigorous prison rules I Nazi storm troops who had beaten and killed Fritz Gofosche of Charlottenburg then attempted to stage a funeral of their own, falsifying the cause of the death...
...You brought the wrong set of brains to the park today, didn't you...
...But thousand* among the leaders, and millions among the rank and file have made no compromise with the Nazi...
...A resolution of the Bureau condemns those Socialist members of the Reichstag who voted approval of Hitler's speech...
...Something has happened to me which is not true," he explained...
...And it was impossible to know Steinmetz without falling completely under the spell of his warm, humap charm...
...The London Daily Herald and Het Volk of Amsterdam, among other European Socialist papers, tell th% story as it was brought to them through the Nazi censorship...
...Since it has been impossible to discover his whereabouts his wife and child have been seized as hostages...
...For us to fight would be like Frits and Tommy, Mischa and Pat, Usher and Jean, and countless millions of other workers of many nations leaving their bones on the battletries...
...Not on your life," said Bill...
...atlon" brought it a fetter from Dr...
...that would make a good Communist slogan," said Joe...
...Bill Wants No Playboy Stunts "•THE class struggle," Bill replied...
...Meanwhile the items of the Hitler terror continue to mount high...
...Now, wherein lay his greatness ? I must confess that I- do not know, for his mind soared far beyond the realms of mere finite minds...
...When you approach me that way I'm like a hungry man who sees a kid eating candy but cannot take it from him...
...Hasshl" they say, holding t heir hands over their faces...
...undersized, hump-backed and dwarfed, the general effect made worse by a physical defect in his palate that affected his speaking...
...Dhiel KEEPING IT DARK A GERMAN Jew, who had *¦ been beaten by the cultured Nazis, writes Hannen Swaffer in the London Daily Herald, and warned to keep his mouth shut, arrived home with two black eyes, and blood streaming down his face, to be asked what had happened...
...Hitler Sadism Among these were Lei part, the aged and sick president of the German Federation of Trade Unions, and Peter Grassmann, vice-president...
...UsJ Rieve, Pr»" Hosiery Won E. Beardsleft F. Cassidy...
...R. "Ley, Nazi labor "co-ordinator," advising the editor "in the future to be so good as to mind your own business...
...asked Joe...
...said Bill...
...when it voted at its Easter Conference to withdraw from the Labor and Socialist International and to make approaches to the Communist International...
...Why...
...So you aren't a pacifist, either," said Joe...
...but sometimes you want to fight without reason and sometimes you reason without fighting...
...The treatment varied from place to place...
...a giant brain in a beautiful head mounted on a mere shell of a body...
...WALLHEAD BACK IN THE BRITISH LABOR PARTY Richard C. Wallhead, M. P., one of the few old-time Socialists and Labor party leaders who remained with the Independent Labor party when it split off from the Labor party last August, is back in the party...
...Both were made to sing the Hitler party song while they were forced to go through gymnastic exercises for the amusement of their sadist jailers...
...After that no one would say that I'm a pacifist...
...Without even using these weapons a hundred cops scattered a thousand Communists last week at an anti-Hitler demonstration...
...Because people wont open their months...
Vol. 15 • June 1933 • No. 22
