No Peace with Hitler' German Socialists Warn in Stirring Manifesto to the World
'No Peace with Hitler' German Socialists Warn in Stirring Manifesto to the World Party Executive Declares Only Collapse of Third Reich Can Prevent Catastrophe; Calls the People at Home to...
...The people as a whole are now passing through a period of practical education as they view the horrible tragedy of the nation...
...The Third Reich is ready...
...while the forces of revolutionary resistance are becoming increasingly apparent...
...As the onion's letter went out, jajnaiiil ii 11 ii i of striking work-Un>m the Callaway milk of GeorJpy-testified as to low wage condimh Which recently forced the •dkeut...
...There is no other...
...The (ierman Sociali-t- accuse Hitler of plotting to carry his methods of murder and violence across the frontiers...
...To delect the attention of the people from the loss of their rights, the bankruptcy of National Socialist e c o n o m y, and the stinking corruption of the regime that cries to heaven, the powers of the Third Reich requin the fanning of nationalist instincts, the false glitter of patriotic parades, of military pomp...
...He put up his :hurch buildings with non-union labor, which he paid at a rate 40 r>er cent below the union scale...
...Harold Steele was elected to the West Alls School Board and Arm in B. Piepenhagen was reelected to the Common Council in Wauwatoaa...
...HjJjJPS n o t conveying: any threat * uusnediate strike, but I know if those conditions continue a **** must come at a not far dis• " • perfectly clear to me that R* strike, when it comes, will **_"Kick more bitter than "the last ^ * it will not end unil one g g ^ T - the other is completely beaten...
...By Hans Rheinlaender A S will be recalled, a few weeks after Hitler's blood purge of June 30 there was an election in (iermany in which Hitler sought to prove that the people were behind him...
...The policy of the Communists is showtag itself to be more and more a senseless and inexcusable waste of 1 the workers' resources...
...The great bulk of the membership ' is still there...
...This is gradually altering the political set-up...
...So that, as between employers and employees in the textile industry there is no code under the National Recovery Administration...
...With the intense Nazi propaganda in' the border sections, and the terrific drive of Conservatives, Communists and Nazis against the Social Democratic government of Denmark, it is of the highest importance that the lines in that country are being sharply drawn...
...The number of aeroplanes is beyond any calculation...
...Forces of Opposition Rising in German) As Discontent with Hitler Grows Social Democracy, Backed by the Fine Loyalty of Rank and File, Is Gathering Hosts for Overthrow of Fascist Rule...
...Employers send their questions through the Recovery Board, as if they were ghostly persons talking at a distance to other ghostly persons through a medium...
...The board will thus have four Socialists in a total...
...The Left Agrarians lost 40 seats and the Democrats 18, while' the Socialists gained 41 and the Conservatives 5. The German sections in North Schleswig, returned to Denmark by plebiscite following the close of the World War...
...Martin B. Baumann Elected To Milwaukee School Board MILWAUKEE.—Martin B. Baumann, Socialist, was re-elected to the Milwaukee school board at Tuesday's election...
...As their , activities continue, increasing num- , bers of the most active workers, , those with the greatest capacity , for leadership, fill the jails...
...It is represented in the Cabinet by Finance Minister Federico Pint-do and Agriculture Minister Luis Duhau...
...The road to peace lie* over the destruction of the existing despotism...
...They are ready to help smash Hitler, whose moat immediate and principal . object is to destroy and dismember Soviet Russia and impose the domination of German fascism upon the rest of Europe...
...Events of the past fortnight, however, seem to indicate that those forces in Europe who can resist the aggressions of the Hitler regime are in motion...
...Millions of those who think stand aside in the silence that has been imposed upon them...
...Socialist Senator Wins Buenos Aires In Big Landslide The Argentine Socialist Partywon a remarkable and important victory in the election for a national Senator from the Federal capital, according to a New York times wireless...
...The sudden downfall of the present regime is not to be expected, although discontent over the prevailing system of lawlessness, brutality and stupidity is mounting rapidly...
...Large portions of it are still organizationally quite weak...
...At any rate, most of them felt the restraint of fear tost there be a repetition of the mass murder...
...A man who wages such barbarous war against the Friends of peace among Ms earn people will seek in vain to convince the world of his love of peace...
...5—Imposition of a new code, with labor sitting in -equal numbers with employers on the Code Authority and all subordinate boards...
...There seems a good deal of feeling that the union is a transient thing...
...Socialist Ministry of Norway Is Announced .Johami Ny guards void, the new Socialist Premier of Norway, has announced the personnel of his cabinet...
...A—Drastically increased rates of pay, elimination of the NorthSouth differential and a restoration Of the differentials between minimum rates and skilled rates to their pre-code ratio...
...Perhaps, there has been no intention of it, but promises made when the last strike was ended have not been fulfilled...
...There is not a single young man in Germany who is permitted to take any examination or can find a job without having passed through some considerable measure of military training...
...ae anion offered to join in a pro- j JPP of economy and market ex-> **jwion...
...Against it we raise the cry for equal rights and liberty: freedom of the individual, of science, of press, of political and religious opinion, of assembly and organization, and restoration of the social rights ef the weriahra...
...were allotted six seats in the new provincial council...
...aof members of so-called sports organizations...
...It Germany today had to face'only France and Belgium, she would be in a position 'to realize without much difficulty all the ambitious schemes outlined in Hitler's 'My Struggle.' "By the Versailles Treaty, Germany was to maintain an army of only 100,000 men...
...They demand that the nations give support to the heroic fighters in Germany, who are working for the overthrow of the Hitler regime, and warn that the very fate of Europe is bound with the success of these efforts...
...P { management, haughty and * * ^ t i c , defies the Recovery Act fX^*** t n e union...
...It follows: "The number of men already prepared for military duty in Germany is now much greater than is generally assumed...
...First, there are to be noted among the opposition elements ; monarchists of various groups, the Stahlhelm, remnants of the Young Germaji Order, and the Black Front...
...Hence its calm and brazen aggressiveness...
...The mass warder can...
...All branches of the army are being rapidly motorized...
...On the basis of reliable information from all parts of Germany we now have a clear picture of the situation...
...But be would not see the committee...
...This applies particularly to the Communists, despite the fact that the regime continues to shout loudest about he Communists in order to keep alive the Communist bogey as propaganda for m support of the' regime...
...White refraining from -ur+tutrnf exaggerated hope* or creating illusions as to the immediate possibilities, the article is distinctly encouraging as showing the rise of an opposition movement in Germany and the gathering of revolutionary forces...
...3—A 30-hour week...
...And, what is more important, it is organizing...
...That ' organization was broken up by the 1 N'azis...
...Coughlin's office workers get less than a living wage," the report asserted...
...We are tired of that...
...Commerce...
...And the A. F. of L. once appointed a committee to interview him on this matter...
...Then come the fighting groups of the Social Democrats and -Communists, as wall as various Socialist splinter MKtK^^tmuxL...
...B—Immediate action by the Department of Justice to' punish those who violate Textile Labor Relations Board orders or National Labor Relations Board orders...
...Several million German men and women have expressed their devotion to the ideals of democracy and Socialism even in the terror-dominated elections of March 5, 1933, after the Reichstag fire, by voting for the Social Democracy...
...The opposition in the country is growing...
...Incidentally, ' we may mention that several * months ago an intimate associate * of Otto Strasser calmly took a < trip to Berlin, where he betrayed < all the secrets of his friends and ' the organization...
...Under the democratic republic the Allied states saw to it that not another man was permitted...
...There are plenty of large guns, as well as machine guns and other instruments of murder, to say nothing of the efficiency and scope of the chemical war industry...
...The destruction ef the fascist pest wiO unfortunately have to proceed by stages...
...A period of impassioned selfcriticism ensued...
...The motive that prompts us in the publication of this paper is to educate the working masses in a constructive political program that will enable us to establish a more secure had orderly state of society...
...Hundred* of thousands are engaged today in heroic battle against the Jailers and executioners of the brown police state...
...is pofnte dout that the Louisiana lictator's state is a cesspool of poverty with no modern labor legislation, and Coughlin's anti-labor record is bared...
...The battle continues...
...The Nazi government has always counted particularly upon the passivity of England...
...We are hot met and dealt with in frankness...
...For obvious reasons we cannot reveal his name...
...The lessons of experience "have not remained without effect upon th"e objectives which the Socialists have set for themselves...
...Universal military service is a child of the French Revolution The Rights of Man arc its essential corollary...
...The effects of the blood purge upon the Nazi battalions were varied...
...UTW Demands Probe of Textile Industry by U . S . tjajg* Urges New Code, Charging Employers Have Wracked Labor Sections if Present Instrument • • tfQmr Washington Correspondent , HtpjXGTOX...
...That is the spirit that is in the hearts of textile workers everywhere...
...The division* in the o p t i o n 's ranks are not its only weakness...
...program last fall led to a •stum-wide strike and an entire Hpaah" of almost complete stoplag*, with the evil recurring with"i five months...
...This means that there are huge supplies of poison gas...
...Despite this slavery, only 72.1 per cent of those entitled to vote in Berlin and 71.5 per cent in Hamburg cast their ballots for the dictator in the election August 19, 1934...
...COUGHLIN A FOE OF UNION LABOR AND A SCAB EMPLOYER I J O T shot was poured into Father Coughlin, Huey Long and Hugh S. Johnson in a report by the Methodist Federation, for Social Service, which charged that the three represent fascist trends...
...The marvelous loyalty 1 to the party which the rank and < file continues to display constitutes the firm basis of oar illegal, underground activities...
...Then there is the opposition of the Evangelical [Protestant] and Catholic churches, of which the first represents a distinct manifestation of the conservative opposition against the regime, while the second supports itself upon its Catholic labor and youth organizations...
...Tie letter in full, follows: Et^Snssuse of the present desperah iffight of American ( textile nHkcrt this letter is addressed to ilka and, to every member of the Cabinet and of Congress, as well • to the Chairmen of the National labor Relations Board and the textile Labor Relations Board...
...But the human beings who ' comprised it have not disappeared, ' even though thousands have been I killed, dragged into concentration 1 camps, or driven from the country...
...By taking a firm stand of the kind demanded by the Executive Committee of the German Social Democracy, these forces, including the great labor movement in the democratic countries, must convince the Hitler government that any attempts on its part to unleash another bloodbath will not be profitable, but extremely perilous for those responsible...
...The Naxis named their,own ticket everywhere, but they elected only one candidate in each of three districts...
...The evacuation of the occupied territories five years ' in advance of treaty provision, the recognition of Germany as an equal in the League of Nations, redaction and final cancellation of reparations were the results of the policy inaugurated and- consistently supported by the German Social Democracy This was the very policy that had been fanatically opposed by Hitler...
...No worker can hope to get a job who has not spent at least one year in a labor camp where military training is given...
...Workers said that after j h e w Bedeaux "stretch-out" sysfifc'was installed the scale dropped HRttS to S7 per week for variSp*JfOe* of work...
...The church groups and the oppo- I sition groups of the Right are t politically weak because funda- 1 mentally they are fighting not i against the system as a whole but i for concessions...
...The election is interpreted as a repudiation for Senor^Pinedo's financial and taxation measures...
...Its offers have been igA Strike May Came •kw condition cannot continue, i' J^e have proposed a complete "*"kk*wn for one month as preamble, the month to be used in jjjjki study to find a. permanent •••rating program...
...led by the Social Democracy, which will ultimately, in one way or another, do away with the Hitler regime...
...Military service without liberty is slavery...
...Today her population is about as large as it was in 1914, despite the great losses in lives suffered in the last war...
...Today the Reichswehr has as many officers and non-commissioned officers alone, for in the course of 16 years it has trained no less than 250,000 men...
...in the fouth they exercise a powerful Influence...
...There can be no doubt that upon the extent to which the nations give heed to the warning of the German Socialists depends the fate of Europe.' Firm cooperation between England, France and Soviet Russia, backed by the Socialists and trade unions of those countries, may yet compel Hitler to desist...
...The Social Democracy occupies a separate position among the ( forces of the opposition...
...The immediate task of the Socialist opposition is to obtain greater freedom of movement for the workers...
...v The Curtoilrnent Order "The curtailment order of the Rational Industrial Recovery Board MtOthich production will be reaieed 2S per cent during the consist three months, has created a •sodRhss which violates every prindpki af the Recovery Program...
...The immediate task is to loosen the chains, to shake off the pressure, to enlarge the available soaps for action...
...Early returns indicate a good rote throughout the state for Glenn Turner, candidate for Supreme Court judge...
...The report, which is from a Socialist source, comes direct from Germany...
...It fat aaaaajaaj to rnirtadi treaties with a newer which tramples all the laws of humanity under its feet...
...There is no other.*' A copy of the manifesto, which may well prove historic, has Just reached this country, together with authoritative information on the Hitler government's war preparations and the internal political situation in Germany, which will be found in another column...
...6—A joint government-labormanagement study of marketing and market extension...
...Foreign Affairs...
...Mrs...
...The facts given are based upon confidential reports direct from Germany...
...Germany is again in the position of being able to put into the field a greater number of men trained for war than any other country...
...The textile mill managements have openly repudiated their own code, and especially have they flouted the basic provision of the 'code contained in the citation of Section 7-A of the National Industrial Recovery Act...
...IMPORTANT SOCIALIST VICTORIES IN DANISH ELECTION CONTESTS . • With a total gam of 41 seats in various provincial councils, the Socialists of Denmark won an important victory in recent local elections...
...Coupled with this manifesto The New Leader has received the following authoritative report of the Hitler government's military preparations...
...We propose: " I — A thorough and merciless investigation of this industry, its capital structure and its methods of operation and of selling...
...The government's new financial measures, providing for an "internal loan," the amount of which is to be determined by the "Fuhrer," has caused even the mildest of citizens to shake their heads...
...Indeboe...
...There are scores of new aviation fields and underground hangars in all parts of the Reich...
...But it is false and unjust to hold the whole German people responsible for a best portion of the people suffer most...
...2—Compulsory elimination of obsolete machinery...
...To make secure their booty they now play with war...
...now abroad, presents a clear, objective picture oj the internal situation in Germany...
...The world must finally understand that its own .fate is inextricably bound with the fate of these brave fighters...
...He has his printing done in a nonunion shop...
...Since there seems no power outside of Congress able to bring order into the chaotic house of the vandals and autocrats of the cotton textile industry, we now propose and demand Congressional action...
...The feeling is one...
...Regime Cries t o Heoven "The German Social Democracy has always fought for understanding among the peoples and equal rights for Germany...
...The road to peace lies over the destruction of the existing despotism...
...W» have proposed government •aaiiiliui to retire obsolete machin~y *ad thus permanently reduce "*^"Hion capacity...
...to realize that the fascist regime mast be done awsy with...
...IvUs Quickly • Frfhcu 1. Gorman, first vieepeeudaat...
...The discussion on democracy versus dictatorship, which only a few months ago received so much attention, is also beginning to abate...
...It is not necessary to speak of the manner in which elections are conducted in Germany since the Nazis took possession of the country and compel every voter to run a gauntlet of uniformed hoodlums lining the approaches to the polling places, clear to the voting booths themselves...
...That is what the manifesto of the German Socialists seeks to impress upon the world...
...The Socialist, Senator Alfredo Palacios, was reelected by 179,619 to 30,339 for the candidate representing the coalition of parties backing President Agustin Justo...
...Monsen, Defense...
...During the automobile strike last spring be spoke sympathetically of company unions...
...The text of the manifesto follow...
...The folio icing article, written for The \ew Leader by one of the most distinguished representatives of the German Social Democracy...
...Social Democracy alone is the bulwark against dictatorship, both Bolshevik and fascist...
...New barnacks are being built in large numbers...
...Hitler has proclaimed the reestablish men t of universal military service...
...membership of 15...
...The battle fa...
...Coupled with this is the fact that the regime itself is passing through an inner readjustment, due to the growing influence within the "totalitarian" state of the army, civil service and industry...
...if I may speak plainly, of being ba ed and betrayed...
...The old armories are all available...
...Military service without the right of the people to determine war and peace is forced labor far the e aiming despotism...
...Those who were in the last war and who are subject to military service at once, or in accordance with the new conscription law, are to be counted by the million...
...He must be made to understand that Europe will not stand idly by and permit him to carry German fascism and its ambitions across the frontiers...
...Smash the Despotism "Bat Hitler has forgotten one other thing...
...These are groups who have contacts with the army, the big landed interests and heavy industry...
...Bint in increasing measure do the comrades hi Germany now turn their gaaa from the past to the future...
...7—Mandatory recognition of the union wherever the union' can show a majority in membership by secret ballot or by union boohs...
...Fhe Communists conduct their illegal activities in ruthless , and senseless manner...
...This is bound to manifest itself in wider measure when the government begins to rob the savings banks, which is what the "internal loan" really means...
...Finance...
...That the Socialists of Europe understand this is evident from the fact thst even the smaller nations, like Sweden, Denmark, Norway and* Switzerland, are hastening to strengthen their defenses sgaiast Hitlerism...
...The slogan of sll anti-fascist forces mast be: "They shall not pass...
...Ystgaard, Agriculture, and Lie, Justice...
...The real ruling elements behind the Hitler regime4* facade are now being perceived, and the immediate question bfore us is how to utilize the traditional forces of the army and civil service for our purposes...
...The election proved the Independent Socialist Party, a split-off j from the official Socialist Party,' has practically ceased to exist...
...Nygaardsvold himself, in addition to the premiership, assumes the Ministry of Labor...
...the Socialist manifesto declares...
...The so-called Black Front of , Otto Strasser, who resides in Prague, represents a Nazi group which seeks to lay emphasis upon its pseudo-Socialism...
...In all but one of these nations the Socialists are in control of the government...
...This order will cut production ayfetll cut wages 25 per cent, r8*J"dng the present average wage ifflflppBt ek2 per week to about •«Plw*ek'' "R wiH reduce employment that •aslrar more...
...Recently he has said: 'Strikes and lockouts ate absolutely unnecessary.' . He advocates 'giving real power to Mas Department of Labor, letting it take over the functions of collective bargaining,' ahus supplanting the A. F. of L. "The sort of unions he has in mind are shop committees or councils— out controlled and regulated by the State...
...With Hitler came the inauguration of a policy of potitteaj adventure and force...
...Calls the People at Home to Revolution By John Powers j J7KOM its seat in Prague the ! Executive Committee of the [German Social Democratic Party i has issued a ringing manifesto j warning the world that there can j be no peace with Hitler, that any treaties concluded with his government will prove mere scraps of paper...
...The other Socialist ministers are: Koht...
...Vergsvik, Social Welfare...
...This cannot possibly lead to anything good...
...On August I, 1014, Germany had available, in round figures, 10,000,000 soldier* of various classifications...
...What he seeks is nothing else ttea to apply the methods of violence he uses at home in the domain of foreign policy...
...Before j the counter-revolution it constituted the largest and strongest i ( single party, with the best organ-1 j ization and the best trained staff of workers and lieutenants...
...these rights rapart end otherwise than in the smashing of the despotism...
...Either they will be victorious or Europe will go down in flames and mass murder...
...In general, it may be said that this fear consti- j tutes the negative mass basis of ( the Hitler regime at present...
...The world mast finally reeRse what m at stake...
...Demand |h'tint" i1111-11 action in dealT^#f*f"tRe cotton textile' inBptjj submiss'i m of an 8-point mqenm including suggestions lor'reorganization of the whole industry and demand for imposiJkm of a new code to replace the cut rent code, which thie union *iautenti> has been repudiated by tbx iiKJu-try as far as its labor section is concerned, were all contained in a letter sent tq the fits dent," t o .all Cabinet members, Ut all members o f the House and Senate and to the Chairmen of {he Textile and National Lafcr Ttelations Boards by the United Textile Workers of ^Jawta...
...Hjelmtveit, Culture...
...Increasing numbers of people are beginning...
...bat declares that ait spa* some unless the evils of •hi gjdjaaey are corrected quickly...
...The United TexUle Workers of Aejeriea have offered management **ry possible kind of eo-operation...
...signed the letter which Mm?JM*^?mW~-th**mtr of imafcflpata...
...therefore, begin...
...The signature of the author is a pseudonym...
...The futility of th is move as a gjj is proven by the fact that a ••War...
...Mad son...
...The International Typographical Union and the Cleveland Federation of Labor have openly denounced him for his non-union policy...
...Doped by the propaganda of the radio anal the coordinated press, masses five him their applause...
...In the country districts it would have been easy for the Nazis to count from 16 to 20 per cent more votes than those actually registered...
...This practice in Italy and Germany has delivered labor bound and gagged into the hands of tile employer...
...Equally large is the number of new elements who since the war have become subject to military service and have secretly been trained for this purpose...
...The opposition • groups of the middle classes can still best be characterized as being t governed by "fear of chaos," the | :haos they believe would ensue upon Hitler's fall...
...But since then there" has been a marked change in the situation...
...At the beginning our under- 1 ground work suffered under the immediate psychologic disadvantages generated by the debacle...
...Now Hitler says, speaking of the early of the Republic, in his manifesto of March 16: Hitler's Foreign Policy "'The German people, through its governments as well as its parties,had been firsts d kg MtM s-hich correspond fully to the democratic-pacifist principles *f the League of Nations and Ha founders.' "Hitler forgot t« odd that the champions of' these Meals have been murdered in his Reich or driven into strange lands by his assassin beads...
...Added to these are the 8A and SS organization, the Stahlhelm, the labor camp military forces (the so-called Free Labor Service), the older students ef higher educational institutions, the students ha other •rhnr*- m .H KmulpiJ...
Vol. 18 • April 1935 • No. 14
