Nazi Conspiracy to Bring Fascism to U. S. Exposed!
Nazi Conspiracy to Bring Fascism to U. S. Exposed! Inside Story Told of Factional Struggle* Within Nazi-American Organizations — New "Anglo- Saxon" Polity Inaugurated by Goebbels—Extortion...
...m. in the following places waWl>vthey will obtain assignments: Young Circle League-Center, 22 Bast 15th Street, Manhattan...
...One day I had mastered those six looms and I stood for a moment' watdung them run...
...fa-a week down South goes much farther with the...
...Another point I would like to bring out is that the South is an open-shop section of the country...
...During the struggle, many storekeepers took advantage of the oportunity and threw their Dawa emblems away...
...The aW isallatJ...
...To "acknowledge unconditionally the leadership principle"' means that no legal or moral considerations can stand in the way of absolute loyalty to the wishes of whomsoever the leader may be...
...But the Communists remain what ts* were throughout the campaign: a wolf in sheep's clothing...
...On reapplying, the -wprkess learned that they wosttroe required to run six looms, and the most efficient were chosen...
...The Deutscher Beobachter disappeared to be followed by the weekly National American, most of which is written in English and proclaims the A.N.L.P...
...I belong to no Semitic organization (Freemasonry, etc...
...We now have such a situation in France and it would b* saW...
...This was the provisional program, but it was soon upset, as we shall see later...
...I am Of Aryan stock and have neither Jewish nor colored blood in me...
...V. or German Consumers' Association (Deutscher Konsum-Verba rid...
...The self-restraint, the reasonableness of the witnesses see-the mill hands appears incredible when page after page of this testimony is studied...
...But we had to keep the wages down...
...holding the balance of power, made impossible the fab tioning of orderly parliamentary government, then fasRhauag 1 destruction...
...The largest sums flowed from the travel bureaus and the North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American lines, all of which have to place altogether nasi ess half-page ada in these papers...
...I felt for a moment that I wanted to^atoiek^snd^make^my voice heard thought: 1 cant stand tips long,' but my mind did not dwell on it, for my trained aye went instinctively back to the loose where I saw work to be done...
...An outstanding feature of ta* aketia is the strengthening af both the Right and Communist wstgk ? situation recalls ominously the picture af the German Beieasui t the period preceding the advent of Hitler, when the fiirai» aaf Oai munists...
...part of the country...
...Nazi Oath Disclosed Every member of the Friends of New Germany must sign a declaration promising to protect his leader from court proceedings, and in case of need to commit perjury...
...We may witness t succession of left governments, headed alternately by th* tsHilsS and Radical Socialists, and followed, ultimately, by a smhVmjb Right-Centre, competing with the left for support of the tafai Socialists, who are themselves divided between the Herriet at Daladier factions...
...Inside Story Told of Factional Struggle* Within Nazi-American Organizations — New "Anglo- Saxon" Polity Inaugurated by Goebbels—Extortion Practiced on German Storekeepers Who Are MUkesUor ConMhittt$^amt Fake "Ads...
...At ay moment such as this there is a rhythm to the clattering thunder of a thoiiaasai liiiiiini that is music to a weaver's ears...
...In order to protect their relatives and themselves from concentration camps, and avoid being branded as traitors to the Fatherland in the eyes of Germane in the United States, they surrendered readily...
...345 seats, a gain of 31, its position is not strengthened, pantiMbJ morally, by the fact that the Communists hold the balance at jan» in this line-up and will exercise a whip hand over the govatsaaafiw may be forsaed by the People's Front parties...
...We cannot say this in th* i*** the gains registered by the enemies of democracy both on ths ¦»* and on the extreme left...
...man or woman who receives it than twice that amount of money in other sections of the country...
...The employer of today was the employee of yesterday, and he has gradually come into the position of the boss...
...The declaration mentioned reads as follows: I asa prepared to enter the League of the Friends of New Germany...
...One of the first steps to follow die founding of the Friends of New Germany was the establishment of the "Dawa" or GermanAmerican Economy League (Dentsch-Arnerikanische Wirtschaftsorganisation) for action against the boycott, and also to drum up a'little money .for the movement...
...And the family of textile workers was living in that house and working on a night shift in the mills for a living...
...When I waa living there I ran 14 fxfifi looms...
...tions with a gain of twenty seats and win constitute a nghfjsg pL stronger than the Communists...
...Today one weaver, one battery filler and one loomfixer run 100 looms to the section...
...Our workers have their town gardens and their own homes and do have those advantages and raise most of the things they have to eat...
...whenever sufficient data was accumulated the sorry plight'of the textile woiker was proven 'beyond all question and the hopelessly chaotic character of the industry was pictured only too Beading through the volume, one is deeply impressed by the cumulative effect of the constant recital by the workers of case after case Of wage catting, of "stretch oat" and of the lengthening of hoars in textile mills fat every...
...recalls ominously the situation in Germany immediately Preeafc** victory of Hitlerism...
...The Nazi Offensive Carrying the fight further, the Deutscher Beobachter, in the same issue, characterized Joseph Schuster, the national leader of the military organization of the Friends of New Germany and a friend of Gissiol and Schnuch, as follows: Schuster's misled followers have to accept penal sentences far their "great leader...
...Their attitude will he detaehai in Moscow, which furnished them with a campaign fund of 5JMN francs, and whose interests for the time being require the esasaa of a democratic regime in France, Soviet Russia's military ah...
...A special emblem was pasted on the windows of stores whose owners belonged to the Dawa...
...f**""J has been checkmated only in those countries where Socialists remained true to their fill isalhml pisitlsn, have rejected SSW-**|J tsipHstisn with ti»ejC**nm^ faugh* a u*n*kje*»^»J...
...Adopt New Policy Haegele proceeded to change the name of his League of American National Socialists to the American National Labor Party...
...Hands Off...
...He, however, keeps himself at a safe dlllsst't, thus imitating the tactics of the chief of a band of robbers...
...They may well ask themselves whether a position would not have been stronger had they been able to I*T the support of large Socialist masses who threw their voto***w Communists...
...He is Anton Haegele, and his "cleaning:" activities Were first nude public in the course of a suit waged against him by Schnuch...
...as a strictly American political party, whose mission is...
...Its official English name, however, is the German-American Business League...
...Thus, when news of the Schnueb-Haegele split reached Berlin, there was joy instead of sorrow, for now the Nazis in the United States could start their propaganda campaigns all over again, with new and better methods...
...In this task they have been helped by the Socialists^*"* selves, by the participation of the Socialists in the united fr**^, their support of "organic unity" with the Communists, and bJjlM acceptance of a large measure of Communist doctrine...
...Gradually' the shop resumed a three-shift schedule with 1,000 looms running with a reduced labor force...
...Every German- American business man, even if he lived in a section lacking a German population, waa farced by all aorta of subversive means to join the Dawa...
...Thus a sort of action division was created for Nasi propaganda hi the United States...
...In a short time, the enrollment of the Dawa was one hundred per cent complete...
...Whoever offered resistance was set down in the "black list," that is, referred to the Gestapo...
...n. The Bunaste and intelligence service developed their chief activity in spying on the German clubs and societies that are openly antiHitler, or else unwilling to be coordinated...
...Wood said: "If a man had a garden, then you would sort of expect him to work for you and then make his own living out of the garden?'^Gilbert replied: "We expect to give him employment and let him supplement by his garden the wages that he earns...
...Thia is no sob story but the facts which textile workers calmly related to the Congressional comittee will bring tears to your eyes...
...From Labor Record) Women to Picket Stores Selling Nasi Products On Monday, May 11, the Women's Committee of the Joint Boycott Council of the Jewish Labor Committee and the American Jewish Congress, will direct a boycott demonstration against stores selling goods produced in Nasi Germany...
...The first few days under this system I remember very dearly...
...The little town is Lexington, 8. C. At that time the mill waa owned by a local company, out it is now owned by the Martel chain...
...a> sidering the many intricate and difficult problems that will mw catfront a People's Front government, the presence of a large Coram* group in the Chamber holding the whip hand over such a goventner will add to the confusion the moment the Communists decide fast t no longer pays them to support the government...
...Z. jfe" It would be futile to deny, therefore, that the losses incarraU the Socialists to the Communists in the parliamentary elections, sea* the Socialist gains won at the expense of the Radical Sociatosfcabwi augur well for the development of a sound, healthy Socialist n*» ment in France...
...While the Socialists, under Leon Blast, has expressed themselves as ready to form a government, the Commons have not yet decided whether they will enter the government or sff merely lend it conditional support...
...A aeeueak regime dependent for support of the adherents of Communist awn* ship is no mere stable than a democratic regime mpparttag faith Parliament upon the votes of the Right parties...
...The Communists gained some 760,000 votes...
...Any German-American store without this emblem was considered an enemy of the Germans...
...The suit was decided in favor of Haegeie...
...Then **" Socialists' votes...
...Further orders were to keep internal dissension under cover...
...Gilbert said: "Yes...
...As such, the Socialists are now expeetsg" td*jj2t_ government...
...The coordination was carried oat with as little let-up sis in the Third Reich...
...AH in good order—all running smoothly...
...This is the verbatim report of the hearings before the Sub-Committee of the House labor Committee on The Ellenbogen Textile Act...
...Had the Peoples Front come out of the ds*** strengthened at the expense of the Right and not depends...
...Schnuch's suit, which lasted for many days, was over the question of the ownership of the newspaper, Deutscher Beobachter...
...A democratic gen** ment, independent of the Communists, would he in a much stats** position, however...
...W Communist support, are would have said that the cause of daa**" in France had won a "real victory...
...Soon another gentleman appeared, to clean out the "pig pen of leadership cliques" in tile "honorable Nazi way," and he gradually found followers all over the country...
...It is probable, therefore, that as long as Moscow's interests demand I the Communists will behave and will not resort to th* tactics ut> pursued with such fatal results* in Germany...
...Haegele calls Schnuch a cut-throat and liar, and Schnuch replies with similar epithets.' Both are careful enough to have others do their dirty work for them, however...
...They must sort of take turns about that, one of them working today for the six or seven dollars until he can't work any longer, and then he is the employer and lets, the other fellow do it" Gilbert replied: "We find our industrials are vary well satisfied down South...
...By John Power* ¦TOE results of the elections to the French Chamber of DeastiajJ finally determined by the second ballot of last Sunday atsajl expected shift to the left...
...We have inexperienced employees: we do not have the efficient workers in the South . . . our people cannot produce the amount of goods in a given period of time that can be be produced in some other section of the country...
...Gilbert, when asked by Congressman Wood if be thought it is necessary for any industry to survive in this country by paying six or seven dollars a week to men of families, said: "It was necessary, but it was a standard that prevailed at that time and the people who received that wage were very, well satisfied with it...
...The house was numbered 16, and it had at some time been painted, but the paint waa beginning to scale off...
...The Communists registered the biggest gains in number of as*, increasing their representation from 10 to 72, a gain of 62, vkSek wrest ad from the SociaMats, The Socialists gained 4* seats, at % expense of the Radical Socialists, increasing their represeateasi & 146 and displacing the Radical Socialists as the largest shiri* hstv in the Chamber...
...And the reason for this scarcity -of information was also demonstrated...
...Congressman Wood then said: "You say the employee of today is the employer tomorrow...
...Together with a great part of the membership of the League of the Friends of New Germany, Haegele had founded a new Nazi organization, the League of American National Socialists...
...Jewish Temple, Rochester Avenue and Lincoln PL, Brooklyn, and the Jewish Community^gons^TOth Street and Bay ~~" ;'¦ »*- *ac«JH — asm as .- ^nStyaB The Workers Amid Final Results of Elections to Frs&M Chamber of Deputies — People's PrsmM Victory Vitiated by Losses of Sotkfm ists to Communists as Result of tfoM United front...
...Nor is the situation altered materially **** gains of the Socialists in the election...
...Haegele secured control of the Dawa, while the opposition formed a similar organization, the D.K...
...Weavers were running four nonautomatic looms, the usual number in broadsilk mills, when the plant where I was working closed for an 'indefinite' period...
...After their victories in 1924 and 19S2 the Pre* parties of the left bad shown a deplorable inability to oocperat*,|p the result that their power was dissipated, which, in turn, op wait road to a succession of conservative cabinets, rendering impose the maintenance of a stable and consistently progressive policy...
...Hundreds of thousands of dollars flowed into the Dawa, and as the "Deutscher Beobachter pointed out, no one seems to have "thought about" the ultimate fate of all this money...
...Department of Labor- experts produced all the evidence that was to be had on the subject...
...his relatives and connections in Germany were investigated, and the newspapers published bis name as that of a traitor...
...The Nasi papers hi the United States, with, their small editions ana high-salaried staffs, were kept alive only by extorted ads...
...A gain of 62 seats for the ftrnwunh**** twenty seats for the Right adds no less than 82 seats to the nee aiming at the destruction of democratic government in Frame...
...To be sure, the" Comsgnnists wage* ¦** campaign disguised as ardent supporters of democracy and eases*** of the national interests of France...
...If any district attorney would take tk* trouble to review the entire proceedings of a trial which Nazis have been involved, ha would find plenty of material for new indictments on the ground of perjury...
...Cry Mill Lords As U. S. Hears Workers' Plea Wage Cuts, Longer Hours, and Ruthless Speeding Wear Out Workers'Nerves and Hearts—Alternative Is Idleness and Slow Starvation — Bosses Insist This Torture , Must Go On, for Profits Are Sacred...
...1* we are witnessing also is a sharp drawing of the lines betwan* Right and Left, with the moderate centre, while still hokfisf * balance of power between the two, diminished in strength...
...Haegele received orders to work on the Americans with the support of the "better circles" and behind good Anglo-Saxon names, and to attempt to dispense with financial support from Germany, since if he were clever enough and "American" enough, he would be able to And hiav own sources of money in the United States...
...was day after day, a constant effort to master the njachine," CoadHioi tm Sow**Carolina A South Carolinian, J. A. Frier, who testified for the union, gave the following picture: "I moved into a little house in 1908...
...Tragic Experience \ "I .can perhaps best give you the general effect of the stretchout system on women from my own experience as a. silk weaver...
...I acknowledge unconditionally the leadership principle upon which the League is formed...
...A new coordination began, with the result that every lest GermanAmerican storekeeper was forced into one or the other of these "business leagues...
...The fact that the ConuwaO have doubled their vote to 1,600,000 and wrested 62 seats fren * Socialists is hardly to be considered an advantage for the cs*n 4 democratic Socialism...
...A few days ago I stopped a car hi front of that little house and saw the stain of the very same paint There was no improvement...
...But the efforts to conceal internal dissension were in vain...
...There were brawls between the thugs of both factions, and both sides increased their military organizations until they numbered 10,000 men all over the country...
...Thty sw not retreated from their ultimate objective of establishing a Coas* nist dictatorship...
...One of the outstanding bits in this priceless document is the testimony of C. C. Gilbert, secretary of that rabid anti-union organisation, Southern States Industrial Council...
...DACKED away in many governmental publications is a mine of human interest material...
...It remains to be seen, of course, how the Communists wiU seam in the new Chamber...
...Most German - American business people have relatives in Germany or business connections or sentimental attachments which lead them to make tripe to Germany now and then...
...But here again it was demonstrated that American government is inadequately informed on the current economic developments m this country...
...It was extorted from its contributors under every kind of pretext and threat, without calling forth any notice from the American authorities, who could have quickly pointed to the true nature of the Dawa: a racket...
...Who the individuals were who filled their pockets has never been disclosed...
...Packed into the pages of this eW—th and awe-inspiring story of the economic situation of almost a million and a half workers in the textile mills of this country...
...While the People's Front of Radical ? cialists (liberals), Socialists and Communists has a clear nujorky...
...to regenerate the United States with Hitler's ideals...
...The fact to keep in mind is that the left *•**" the elections was limited largely to within the left camp itself...
...In many industries there is a difference of from 20 to 33% per cent in the productivity of the employees in the South...
...The policy of the united front has merely served to recruit SW porters for the Communists in the Socialist ranks...
...Then our climatic conditions down there are conducive somewhat to a difference and cause an easy-going attitude not only in industry but in every other walk of life...
...The Wand assurance of tile employers before the committee, their stubborn and complete dependence on the theory that "government must stay out of business" was evident throughout their testimony...
...Glancing at random through the book, one's eye lights on passages such as this testimony of Elizabeth Nord, a young organizer on til* staff of the United Textile .Oar...
...The American...
...As I stood listening, watching, I became conscious that my body was wet with perspiration, every muscle taut, every pulse beating bard, and my j heart pounding within my breast...
...I counted eleven panes of glass broken ¦ out of the windows...
...As for the French Socialists, they may well ask tbaam*** whether a loss of 62 seats to the Communists is evidence of the saas* of the united front...
...Tbses believe that the benefits derived by the Communists from thejaaw front will help stem the progress of fascism in France, igo** lessons of bitter experience...
...But their peace was short...
...a 'whole armory ' of * methods was available, whose application was equally as effective as were the tactics of the Storm Troops in Germany...
...All propagandist methods were derived from Goebbels, and nothing has been created that is especially attractive to Americana or takes into account the particular character of the United States or breaks through the confines of the old propaganda...
...These stores will be picketed and all those who wish to help are requested to- communicate at once with the Joint Boycott Council which is located in the office of the New York Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 31 West 15th Street, NejkYork The pickets will meet atJflp...
...The employer and the employee work side by side...
...to close our eyes to it...
...Ala* was intended to calm the apprehensions of the middle classes, to In* tate Soviet Russia's national policy and strengthen the KxeauVt be on the French foreign office...
...A solid volume comes from the United States Printing Office entitled "To Rehabilitate and Stabilize Labor Conditions in the Textile Industry of the United j States...
...Instead of harrowing the members of Congress with laments such as written by Thomas Hood in his "Song of the Shirt" the present-day cotton mill had a silk weavai get his message across with statistics and with a careful recital of the human effects of technological changes upon those who make the fabrics which are es'ssntfil to life in a civilized na- Apripfjlltl for Slavery Perhaps even more revealing than the stories of the workers is the testimony offered by the textile employers, and by the battery of high prjeed trade association executives and attorneys who appeared anxiously in opposition to the bill which would regulate wagea and hours in this largest of all American industries...
...In their immediate sodal ad economic program they preached the mildest of "reformism...
...The fact that some 360,000 Radical Sociabsto «? their ballots for the Socialists and made possible the intra*— *T Socialist representation in the Chamber is, to our mind, seat aw pensation for the desertion of Socialist voters to the Communist*-J* Communists are obviously the real gainers in the united fre**- ?g have traveled far in their objective of disorganizing the S«e*»» Party...
...And those who think that a Bw" Party that loses heavily to the Communists can be compensatose gains from the liberals, are likewise the captives of illusion...
...On 400 looms they employ seven weavers each shift to do smashing and everything else...
...x Extortion Practiced The Schnuch-Haegele fight was also primarily a struggle for the control of the Dawa, with its mighty financial resources and mass basis...
...Well Satisfied" Asked if this included the raising of wages, Mr...
...Gissrbl and Schuster were to continue to work on the German-Americans, but more effectively than heretofore...
...Thie only led to a further sharpening of differences, which now began to be expressed in violent forms...
...Down South, we are a newxfndustry...
...On July 4, 1936, the Deutscher Beobachter stated: One wonders whether the members of the Friends of New Germany, who since 1933 have contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars, ever think of what has happened to that money and what has been accomplished with it The suspicions of the Deutscher Beobachter were justified, as the money has actually disappeared without a trace—not that Haegele's organization has any cleaner hands...
...further aggravated by the fact that the Right came out of the 4...
...First a call was sent out: whoever refused to enroll as member of the Dawa would be put on a "Mack list" by the agents of Sauerma-Dougias* intelligence service and "worked on" by them...
...When the workers went for their wages, a notice was posted on the door to the effect that the plant would reopen soon and workers desiring a job must re-apply to the employment •manager...
...Experience has shown that fascism and reaction have 1umib*t benefited by the presence in any country of a strong Cuimambt am ment...
...With the slogan, "Fight the boycott of German goods," an[numbered small storekeepers were milked for contributions, membership daes and expensive ads for the Nasi weeklies...
...Front and able tcu determine the fate of any People's Front rwtnment, it cannot be said that we have a situation conducive u th strengthening of the democratic regime in France...
...The Radical Socialists were returned with a rtfe* representation of 115 seats, but will hold the balance of psfmrJatsta the equally divided Right-Centre and Socialist-Coramunist easn* With the Communists holding the helanre of power in til tufij...
...The aisaa and purpose of the League are known to me, and I pledge myself to support them without any reservation whatsoever...
...Few of the witnesses for either Aide came before the committee with really up-to-date data or with a really convincing presentation of statistical evidence drawn from impartial sources...
...What kind of men are in these terrorist groups can best be seen by reading the Nazis' own press accounts...
...In the trade unions, as shown at the recant an* congress in Toulouse, they fought for the familiar Communist am « establishing their dictatorship over the labor-movement, M^jOW'were defeated by a vote of two to one...
...Nazis have long been the favored proteges of the German Propaganda Ministery...
...The fascist elements clamoring for a *S*ns* government will be tire gainers...
...They appreciate the increase in wages...
...But that department has, nevertheless, recognised that Nazi propaganda in the United States is too one-sided, is concentrated too exclusively in the direction of the German-Americans and can show no progress in the "Germanization" (and whatever is included in that term) of the United States...
...They yielded little to ft* a> servatives in their protestations of national loyalty and their dm*** for adequate military preparedness...
...It has mode*J* Socialist Party a recruiting agency for the Communists...
...The committee members did not have at their disposal experts who could question witnesses or secure the needed evidence upon which the best- sort af judgment on this highly complicated question could be eeoed...
Vol. 19 • May 1936 • No. 19
