German Socialists Reform Lines for Battle
German Socialists Reform Lines for Battle Nazi Discipline Breaks Down on May Day BERLIN.—Contrary to enthusiastic Nazi forecasts, May Day, 1935, • in Germany has not been a success. For the...
...Taking the Nazi claim of only 2,600,000 workers unemployed at its face value, and leaving out completely 2.000,000 agricultural worker-, the vote ef the remain hay mars than 3,000,000 industrial workers remains a mystery...
...in Munich, Nazi stronghold, even going so far that the refusal of workers to participate forced the cancellation of all outdoor meetings...
...Discipline cracked everywhere...
...In the meantime, further reports SB the shop council elections tend to clarify the extent of the socalled Nasi "victory...
...huff ml*.—The local will canvasaaJt SHI enroiletl voters of Krle County...
...The protests of the employers proved so effective that Hitler had to bow to them...
...H mIik> ilc kiimn is chairman of tht rommiltri- in rharice...
...Official figures report 6,500,000 valid workers' votes, which is far below the census figure of 1933, giving a total of 14,900,000 industrial and agricultural workers...
...W School Reception to Women Delegates '•assy afternoon more than aomen gathered in the Rand 2Jst auditorium when the Wom* Csauaittee of the Rand School ?* • reception to the women ¦Jntes and the wives of dele¦j*te the Workmen's Circle con..S^* refreshments had been 9*»a there were brief talks by l^fcjirtha H. Mailly and others, "PC Of the work of the school services to Socialism, and Peg the visitors to inspect the JSSg after the reception after ^j* there were musical selections...
...Except glittering generalities and fervent appeals to nationalism, Hitler said nothing that had not been said before, while the long promised declaration of wage increases, or "attainment of a just wage," failed to materialize...
...The workers* vote cast throughout the Reich- and mainly in Berlin where the Nazis are frankly disappointed, seems to confirm again the outcome of the Danzig elections which gave the Nazis only approximately 00% of the total...
...Members of UmJHHE Will Willi IPS* M llH'CtillK <'f tf»« <Cll|»IUia I ! >l*trn't 1'nrtj nu mlxr-ship in Sctteurc|aiif...
...the cam paiftn goi under way this wee...
...In fact, the expected announcements of this kind were cancelled at the last minute at the insistence of the German industrialists...
...Underground opposition, especially in Berlin, was also instrumental in keeping so many workers from these meetings that the threatened reprisals are doomed to failure...
...As has already been reported, the votes cast for the Nazi ticket do not exceed 70%, despite the tremendous pressure upon the workers and the successful combing out of all doubtful voters...
...The assembled workers, shivering in a snow storm, greeted the announcement with stony silence...
...For the first time in the history of Hitler's Third Reich the workers displayed a restlessness which was in marked contrast to last year's celebration in which 2,000,000 people participated in Berlin alone...
...Ley, announced that a commission for the study of wages would be set up, and that practical results might be obtainable by next May Day, 1936...
...To appease the disappointment of the masses, the leader ef the German Labor Front, Dr...
...The number of 70,066 factories and shops hi which elections were held is also far below the actual number of German industrial establishment...
...New York State State titcitiN ( ommitw*.—Tht,aeat mrrttns of th«- Matr Kxi**u*fw r.««w*«ii («¦<¦ will 1- IipI.1 in the Capitol IMslliilt Mil' IS ami IS...
...As if to add to the growing disillusionment of the working masses, the assembled hundreds of thousands in Tempelhof Field near Berlin were treated to speeches which were devoid of eves'", the smallest olive branches of economic improvement held out to them ia recent weeks...
Vol. 18 • May 1935 • No. 19
