The Circus Is Over; Hitler Stands with Exploiters
The Circus Is Over; Hitler Stands with Exploiters •"PHE new class alignment in Ger* many as a result of recent events ig not favorable to the dictatorship ot Hitler's Fascists. Hitler's...
...He called for a 1 program of stoppage of all evici tions, taxation of public utilities, higher income and inheritance taxes, gift taxation, and a special tax on stock transfers...
...So Labor must fight on—even under the new deal—to achieve its objectives...
...Now James Higgins, Milwaukee Democrat, has introduced into the house of representatives, and secured passage, of a bill to investigate the problem of why all the university's scholarships are being given to "reds...
...Labor has no voice and will have no voice at the conference tables...
...cialist Party, demanded that the Mayor request a special session of the legislature, that there be a reduction of the salaries of appointive and elective officials who receive over $8,000, including judges, the Mayor and the rest of the Board of Estimate...
...Graduate of the Univeraity of Kiel in 1881, in 1931 his university celebrated the 50th anniversary of his graduation as an event of world importance in the realm of scholarship...
...The days o" delirious dreaming of a German heaven are lever for any workers who thought ' that the labor sections of the Nazi program meant something for I them...
...Levy condemned the action of the Board in no uncertain terms, stating that the motion just passed , would delay the resumption of ' immediate relief payments...
...Minister of the Interior Frick has also ordered the removal of all Nazi "radicals" from posts they have taken in industry and ordered "protective arrest" of those who do not obey the order...
...g the activities of Nazis in penetrating industry...
...Hitler's party hab destroyed all other political organizations, including llugenherg's capitalist Nationalist Party, but the capitalist class itself is recovering control over industry with the consent of Hitler himself who has issuer, orders check...
...Remittances should be made out to him and forwarded to 7 East 15th Street, -New York City...
...A resolution was introduced instructing the Comptroller to make a complete report on city finances...
...It must have recognized spokesmen...
...Heil, Hell...
...We are still of the opinion that Hitler will disappear in a volcanic upheaval that will destroy his regime arid put an end to capitalism as well...
...In a fiery speech Panken described the misery of the workers of New York, stating: "If the law stands in the way of feeding hungry men, women and children, then this law must got" All Ranks Join in Battle Against Nazi Savagery THIRTY-SEVEN leaders in Socialist, labor and progressive circles have joined in sponsoring the work of the League Against Fascism...
...Labor has never received a crust of bread that it was not compelled to fight for...
...Hitler Stands with Exploiters •"PHE new class alignment in Ger* many as a result of recent events ig not favorable to the dictatorship ot Hitler's Fascists...
...If Labor does not see fit to take advantage of this bill of rights, it will gain nothing under the new deal no matter how long and lustily the politicians bellow their approval...
...The Socialist Party of America has set up an American Section of the Matteotti Fund—known as The League Against Fascism...
...As late as October of last year Nazi papers were makin, war on the capitalist class, and this sppealed to the workers recruited into the Nazi organizations...
...Labor toill get no more out of fhe new deal than it is strong enough to demand...
...O'Brien had just asked Robert Minor of the Communist Party to address the Board, and after Minor had finished an address lasting three-quarters of an hour the Socialist delegation demanded the floor...
...Bluntly and frankly he told the Board that the unemployed would rather be clubbed or shot to death than see their wives and children starve before their eyes...
...Industry has never given anything it was not compelled to give, and in the present emergency it is fighting every effort to change the old order of things...
...HEIL...
...He deI manded that the Board of Estimate i request a special session of the state legislature...
...An op for* tuniiy has been afforded Labor to do these things, but that is all...
...Two years later his books were taken from the shelves of the library of the same university and burned in J the auto da fe of May 17th...
...or that, indeed, there is anything like a "pure" race at all in Germany or anywhere else...
...Israel, Leo Krzycki, E. C. Lindeman, Algernon Lee, Robert Moras Lovett, Jasper McLeyy...
...They are now conscripted in Hitler's chain gang of slaves...
...Leading the "reds," according to Higgins' charges, is Professor E. A. Ross, head of the Sociology department...
...CommunistsHeard By O'Brien But Ejects Socialists JACK AMMAN, representing the Socialist Party before the New York City Board of Estimate and Apportionment at a special meeting called by Mayor O'Bri'-n Wednesday in connection with the city's stoppage of all relief payments, and Amicus Most of the Workers' Unemployed Leagues, were ejected from the City Hall after being refused the floor, immediately after representatives of the Communist Party had been permitted a long and uninterrupted address to the Tammany officials...
...Matthew M. Levy, representing the Bronx Tenants' Emergency League, was compelled to take his seat without uttering a word...
...It has been demonstrated beyond the peradventure of a doubt that his mother's blood is pure Jewish, while his father was of Austrian birth and Slovak ancestry...
...Hell, Schichlgruber...
...He was removed, shouting: "I protest against the United Front between the city administration and the Communist Party...
...Without that...
...Protesting vigorously, Altman demanded that other political organizations as well as the workers' unemployed delegations be given the floor...
...invited others to join as sponsors of the movement...
...The main task of recapturing Germany from the Nazis belongs to the German Socialists...
...on a campaign slogan, "Drive the Reds, Free Lovers and Atheists out of our state university...
...There are no absolute guarantees under the Industrial Recovery Act...
...Morris Hillquit, national chairman of the Socialist Party, is treasurer of the League...
...he was laughed down by the voters...
...The Nazi Party proclaimed itself a party of the class struggle and its aim the destruction of the capitalist owners of industry...
...In the course of his speech Minor provoked considerable laughter by addressing O'Brien as "Comrade O'Brien...
...Fascism can yet be halted ere it brings the world to the abyss of a new world war...
...On the basis of an appeal for defense of German freedom, the Socialist N.E.C...
...Mayor...
...That is all...
...THE Labor press makes considerable ado about the benefits awarded to Labor through the new deal...
...Terror is invoked against Nazi workI ers who do not submit to these j government decrees...
...It will gain no more than it can take and hold...
...Under the Industrial Recovery Act Labor must first organize its economic forces...
...The League was aet up by the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party for the double purpose of raising a large fund to help finance German Socialist activities against Hitlerism, and, secondly, to carry on vigorous anti-Fascist propaganda in the United States...
...Circuses—But No Bread With Hitler dictator, he has pro-1 vided his followers with big cir-1 ruses, festivals, holidays and bom-, hast...
...James H. Maurer, Kirby Page, John C. Packard, Emil Rieve Joseph Schlossberg, Congressman F. H. Shoemaker, Clarence Senior, John Sloan, Norman Thomas, B. C. Vladeck, Oswald Garrison Villard, Lilith M. Wilson, Louis Waldman and Max Zaritsky...
...That is, these Nazi "radicals" will be treated the same as the Socialists and Communists...
...Some labor leaders go so far as to say that the National Industrial Recovery Act is a new magna charta, a new declaration of independence and a new proclamation of emancipation from the old slavery of industrialism...
...It has planted itself'on the world horizon as an ill-omen of a new world war...
...At the same time the Federation of German Industries has sent an order down the linedeclaring that further preparations for the "corporative State" must be abandoned...
...It must have recognition as a legitimate organization...
...Franz Boas, Paul Blanshard, Joseph Baskin, Harriot Stanton BJatch, Albert S. Coolidge, Fania Cohn, Abraham Cahan, David Dubinsky, Jerome Davis, John Dewey, Dorothy Detzer, Julius Gerber, Morris Hillquit, Powers Hapgood, Daniel W. Hoan, Darlington Hoopes, Edward Ij...
...These are empty phrases and hollow words...
...Matthew M. Levy, of the Bronx Tenants' Emergency League, was heard...
...Jack Altman, representing the Socialist Party, followed...
...Amicus Most of the Workers' Unemployed Leagues and Morris Stone of the Workers' Committee were also ejected...
...Labor must unionize to gain a voice in the new industrial set-up...
...Labor has not received a new baptism nor has a single shackle been struck from the bleeding arms of hungry workers...
...The Mayor ordered the police to put Altman out...
...Here's something for the Judenfresser, Rosenberg the Litwak, to worry about...
...It appears that a non-Aryan alien of foreign birth, named Adolf Schichlgruber, has managed by low cunning to get himself a job in the New Germany...
...We demand the right to speak...
...It hated the Marxists because of their in- j ternationalism and the ''betrayal...
...Hitler declares that there must not only be no talk of a "second revolution," which will be regarded as insurrection and crushed, but that the "national revolution" has now been completed...
...This first sppeal goes naturally to ths branches of the Socialist Party, In the name of the International Socialist movement, we urge that your branch make as large a contribution as possible...
...This situation is of profound significance for the working class of Germany...
...Faced with S 1 bad economic situation, Hitler i throws himself into the arms of the ruling bankers and capitalists...
...Counter-Revolution This is a counter-revolution within the Nasi Party for it scraps every pretense of a labor program, repudiates important sections of election pledges, and brings the capitalist and banking classes under the protection of Hitler's "Na i tional Socialist" Government...
...It provides a bill of rights...
...Many of these workers proceeded to act on their own account, and Hitler was compelled to choose between the labor section of his program and j loyalty to the capitalist class that helped to finance the Nazi move- j ment...
...The first appeal of the League went out this week to the locals and branches of the Socialist Party...
...Boas Wars on the Nazis PROFESSOR FRANZ BOAS of Columbia, considered the leading anthropologist in the world, is a fitting member of the committee that Is fighting German Nstional Sadism...
...The German Socialist movement, though proi__ scribed by law and devastated by systematic terror, has reformed its ranks to wage anew ike battle /or Socialism and human rights...
...This situation clarifies the outlook and must eventually recruit lurge numbers of workers for a thorough sooial revolution in Germany...
...But stalwart Republicans are not alone in fearing the free in» quiry of university students...
...This week acceptances have been received from the following men and women, who will constitute the national committee of sponsors: Devere Allen, Prof...
...Paul Blanshard of the City Affairs Committee was not permitted a hearing...
...Daniel W. Hoan, chairman of the League, in a letter to Socialist branches declared: "There is no greater menace to Socialism and civilization than the infamous regime of the Nazis in Germany Fascism has brought terror and degradation to the German masses...
...Labor and theNewDeal The following is an editorial from the Minnesota Union Advocate, official labor paper of St...
...Professor Boas, in his researches that have led him around the world, completely disposed of the idiotic "science" of the Nazis that there is a peculiar virtue in the "pure" German race...
...Referring to the incident at City Hall, Altman said: "The Socialist Party and the unemployed of New York will not ba stifled...
...By this phrase these Nazi workers mean the ousting of the capitalist class...
...If the jobless are not given bread, they will have no other recourse than to take it.*' The Board of Estimate reconvened at 4 p. m. after the ejection of the Socialist representatives in the morning...
...1 Professor II ias' comment was: I "If jhey want to be crazy let them...
...As usual the Communist leader devoted some minutes to attacking the Socialist delegation, at the conclusion of which the Mayor refused to allow the Socialists as much as a word...
...If the Mayor will not allow them to be heard within the Board of Estimate, he will have to hear them from the street corners of this city, from the throats of thousands of the unemployed who demand bread...
...We have demands to make on the Administration...
...Paul, owned and controlled by the unions of that city...
...But the task is too great for them to shoulder by themselves...
...For some months they were intoxicated, but in the meantime j bread and work became no more, abundant and Nazi workers began to grumble for installments of "national Socialism...
...That has been the record of I.abor for more than half a cenlury, and a mere law on the federal statute books has not changed the old order...
...He goes under the alios of Adolf Hitler, and he declares that no one has a right to determine who is a Jew but himself...
...Nazis Bom His Books...
...On Tuesday Hitler sent an ultimatum to these Nazi "radicals" to desist from their demand for a "second revolution...
...Jacob Panken, for the So...
...Labor has never been given a guarantee c' greater security against mayhem, killings, blindness or other forms of accidents until Labor took the initiative and demanded safety appliances, industrial insurance and employers' liability...
...Edward Levinson is executive secretary of the League...
...Before objection could be made, the Board attempted to adjourn...
...Ia Prague, in Zurich and in Paris the German Socialists have begun to build the machinery of a secret propaganda which will defy the Hitler terror to bait it...
...O'Brien refused it...
...of the Fatherland" by effecting the first revolution...
...Still Investigating "Reds" MADISON, Wis.—When John B. Chappie, stalwart Republican, campaigned last full for the United States Senate...
...While he has taken over the capitalist party of Hugenberfc he j is ordering Nazi workers to abandon their interference with capi- j talist enterprises and threatens them with severe punishment if they do not obey...
...If the city does not provide food and shelter for the unemployed, then the responsibility for any violence that may come will rest upon you, Mr...
...In the meantime loyal and true comrades inside Germany risk their liberty and their lives to carry forward the work of Socialism...
Vol. 16 • July 1933 • No. 3
