Hitler's Latest Campaigns Reveal Weakness Of Nazis In Germany and On Foreign Fronts
MEYER, Dr. ERNST W.
Hitler's Latest Campaigns Reveal Weakness Of Nazis In Germany and On Foreign Fronts Strength Lies In Bluffing Own People bY Dr. ERNST W. MEYER until recently first secretary of the Her man...
...W'fl practice of the virtues prescribed by the wise men as the mpl stones of surress could these serfs ever escape from the tofhl^S| 'hat dept...
...Hut we expect to be reminded frequently or his utterances in the future, because the repercussions of this spech are only be- I pinning to become noticeable and ] will be felt.for a long period ot , time...
...Often they worked in peril, sometimes in i>cril needless li' inexcusable...
...Only the very existence of a wholly regimented press and the distrust which it breeds makes possible the flood ot rumors about which Hitler is ;o indignant...
...as he says, ho i "thought it advisable to make a number of personal changes not on, but after aJnuary 30th," the tlfth anniversary of his ascent tc power...
...It is true that during the wrr the majority of its leaders participated in the "sacred union" of all Frenchmen...
...Cites Dangers From Wrfhout T IKE ail dictators, Hitler likes to tell his followers that the country is in greatest danger because of the threats of foreign enemies...
...The C.G.T...
...kept them far away from any kiud of teal and elective political action...
...We Tee...
...French Unions Are Prepared To Enter Fight For Political Control of Nation By F. E. MODIGLIANI Leader of the Exiled Italian Socialist Party pARlS.—Although in every com: try, the iabo, movement has ha I Itp origin, and derives its inspira tions, from the same goals of emancipation, it is, however, inevitable —and also necessary—that it as sump, in each country, forms and methods in keeping with the respective environments and varying degrees of workers culture and class consciousness...
...Later on, when the Tascist niennc e became threatening in France in February, 1934, thr1 C.G.T...
...They were bound in a hopeless servitude...
...In tha early days of 1892, a speculative gentleman in Philstte" phia named Alexander McLeod, conceived that it would be a per fectly grand idea to combine these railroads and so erect an irai clai monopoly of the coal supply...
...I Jj a had suspected for some time that 1 waa nder •urveitlsaSR'| have no doubt tha* detectives trailed these men to Mr Powd*S**J house and knew their names and tbe owner* aid tbe T*at/"1...
...Hitler makes a distinction between Bolshevism and the Russian people as such...
...Powderly's approval, I printed an outline of their n***f • 3 have never to this day mentioned the names of these me« one...
...This is repeatedly denied...
...However, in this cpoecti...
...It is a persecution that lacks neither the brutality of violence nor the pres-, sure of threats nor the deceits of cunning and falsehood...
...And why i should it be otherwise...
...It bitterly refused any contact with political parties, even of the working class...
...3f| A few weeks as a police reporter on the East Side of New York and a few weeks as a reporter-Investigator in the anthracite emt mining regions taught me more about the realities or economlB lhan all the class-room exercises, text books and perfuaeasj) Instructors...
...This conception was, :;> a certain extent, influenced by the insurrectionist traditions of the French labor "elite...
...With their co,w'^^I Mr...
...returned to its old habits...
...all the better as they...
...It is true nevertheless...
...These personal change...
...At not a-y*r anywhere could they -find employment...
...3 found that, an elaborate and carefully calculated system «< aB held every minei in a slate of virtual slavery, so that no sat could run away from his chains, no man could exercise thefH of refusing conditions of labor that he deemed too onerous Hi unfair...
...j with this new policy, has obtained from the Government's interven 'ion all the maximum help it can give when labor succeeds in establishing a sort of partnership between them...
...At the same time, a better example can hardly be found of the man- j nt-r in which dictators nave al-ways liked to inform their sub-jects about their achievements and plans...
...told me, and >J**2 all they said with documents and records...
...It still pays a sort of lip-service ' to the "original creed", in the reali ».ation of which it no longer bo lieves...
...It dates back to the time of the beginning e International Labor Office at Geneva, whose useful and necessary function the C.G.T...
...3 * U ORE specifically, these bills propose: 1) That labor agreements should ¦irovide the necessary machiner...
...i If Soviet Russia tried to do sc I in Spain, as Is asserted, the way j to deal with, the situation was not to do the same, but to prevent Russia directly from continuing her interventions...
...4) That if the workers approve the continuation of the strike, (he Rtruek factory should be immedi ately "neutralized", which mean:, that the strikers should abandon its premises, while the employers will not be permitted to continue production with "scabs...
...How little justification his remarks had was shown a few hours after his speech was made, i he most important newspapers -if the larger democratic countries published its full text and so demonstrated strikingly their loyalty to the unwritten international law to furnish public opinion with accurate and objective information...
...similar conceptions in other countries where th° trade union movement is allied with labor political parties and has ."•yen, taken upon itself, such as in England and Belgium, the function of the political party of the working class...
...was the- first body fo advocate cooperaf'.on of all the political parlies of the Left, and participated in this entente when it became tb*c French Popular Front, There were, outside the C.G.T., and working against it, some Communist minority trade unions...
...It is highly probable that the other world powers, if they had been willing to act in unison, would have been able to succeed in this...
...Bs CHARLES EDWARD RL'SSELL AFTER all...
...But we do not regard the leader of any government as authorized to interfere with political systems outside the borders of his own country...
...Love for Germany, devotion to Western civilisation should forbid the running of the enormous risks of, any policy of new world crusades, holy or unholy...
...He had brought in to meet me, two minersiwj revealed to me the things they had endured...
...It combines what is right and what is wrong and what ia partly right or wrong...
...and he has re mained there...
...j j All the more it appears dis-j i uieting that in his address ilitler indicates anew the principle of Intervention, if a foreign country should turn Communistic...
...I shall be, therefore, the last one to advise the trade-union movement of the United States, to regard, as an example of perfection, the trade union movement of such a different couiltry...
...He furthermore does not answer the question, why...
...were in effect the rtfrne owners...
...the corablaaia advanced the price of coal...
...The galleries underground had sometimes to be ttv ported with timbers...
...SOMETHING new, nevertheless, ^ took place in the C.G.T...
...And it so constitutes, as experience teaches us, a most efficient political weapon...
...The New Yeri Herald, on which I was then employed, conceived that the selKTSt might be grand indeed for the owners of the railroads (and cf tb mines) but it might not be grand at all for the public that »m* be digging up the increased dividends—a suggestion much staff ened by the fact that the first turn out of the box...
...Germany as well as referring to j , the general principals of freedom . J and tolerance for which they j stood...
...And I found St) —and some other things...
...Yet I regard it k permanent threat to the peace ol the world if any foreign countrj claims the right to meddle into the internal aflairs of anothei country...
...it was therefore more individualistic than...
...The East Side banged out of my head all illusion* as to at fanciful thing we call Prosperity...
...itself, was proposed anil accepted as the representative of the lemocratic government at the Ge leva Labor Office...
...for conciliation and arbitration...
...Senator Copeland's mysterious "Off tain ——," whose shadowy form and veiled face he paraded ^¦'•fr a Committee report, alleged that'his identity must be kept a sspr* or he would be "shot in the back...
...effort to make people believe that most important decisions of for-- governments concerning wai or peace could, to^any consider-, able extent, be so lightly entered upon...
...does not participate in the government, it is par ticipating in the political adminis trat.ion of the country, like a poli tical party, even though still protecting that it declines the respon sibilities of a political party...
...In conclusion, the French trade union movement will have reached, although through a different road, ¦ he same orientation adopted long ago by the workers of other countries, when they became convinced '.hat from their trade union organisation should radiate the political action of the working class...
...concern the very large number of highest ranking officers of tho army...
...s For those who are passionately devoted to Western 'Civilisation and to its preservation in the countries roost affected by Hit- | ler*s policies, his address is ot additional significance...
...of the law...
...Mention Stresemann TfTE are not astonished to notice W that Hitler, while dealing with the colonial problem completely forgets to mention tht...
...The German people learn little or nothing from him about tho state of foreign trade and the actual financial situation...
...The French Confederation of Labor always proclaimed Itself "independent of any government," which means, implicitly, independent of any political gtoup...
...And now please mark...
...JO T SAfT one night in the home of Terence V. Powdeiiy, oeo* of the Knights of Labor, and once tbe most liberally man in America...
...So he did it...
...The duty of tht t ade union movement was to ask •lothing of (he Sta't — only So irn pose on it its own will...
...were in a position to give prool i of the lair treatment which non- j German minorities enjoyed in...
...Fuehrer Neglects to...
...They combat Christianity...
...Now he can hardly pretend that England, France or the United States hare made up their' minds to wage war against Germain The German people simply v.-ouW not believe him...
...It happened in this way...
...The coal mines inoculated m with a horror and a hatred of the murderous Profit system tat have been with me ever since...
...The chances are that he I would have succcded in solving j I the problem long ago as he had j succeded in liberating, the Rhine- j j land, in spite of enormous dlffi- ' cutties and 'without destroying I German liberty at home, j It is not less misleading if Hit...
...By an ingenious system of deductions and exactions, they aSJ robbed of a part of their toil even when they were gradSSpl allowed to work—they and their children, for in violation sfW law again, boys worked in the mines...
...At any rate, as tbe war ended, the French C.G.T...
...TTITLER might be right or wrong when he claims that Spain is ruled by Communism...
...Hitler gives as reason for their j dismissal nothing but "the policy of rejuvenation" of the army...
...It had contempt for those who were performing the role of politicians: and if now and then, it promoted manifestations of a political character, it did so in its "traditional splendid isolation...
...In historic formation and in social structure, as France tis...
...H- ,a*in*o8i** The General Secretary of the C.G.T...
...the period of the lowest level reached in Germany during the world's economic depression, whereas it would be...
...Years later, I learned that despite all my caution, therfsw been discovered by the mine owners, discharged at once, a»d •* blacklisted throughout the three anthracite regions...
...Neither would they believe that sonte- of the smaller neighbors like Austria or Czechoslovakia, Holland or Belgium have similai intentions...
...fact that Guwtave Stresemann had clearly raised the German claim for colonies a' Tew years after the end of the V, orld War and solDangers' From Outside Are Red Herrings emnly raised it aaaia #«S|lfer-many entered" the League delations...
...When a new gallery was opened, instsatj" providing new timbers, old timbers were taken from one sfSju another, leaving places where at any time the walls or cefliM might collapse...
...fierce red demons, that there Ire other ways of Shooting men *• back than with firearms tsad other persons resort to assasshtsSH than his furious buckram saOormen...
...correct to contrast present boom figures only with those of another boom period or at least with the fig ures ofl an average year...
...In the meantime, public tap-rest has necessarily diminished...
...Hitler wants to Justify a further increase in armaments by referring to dangers from abroad...
...The real danger lies not in the functioning of a free press, but of a regimented press, without which, as Napoleon admitted, he would not have been able to rule for a fortnight...
...2) That arbitration awards should become binding for both parties...
...nique which National Socialism I has developed to perfection...
...Such meager ! information not only helps to | spread rumors and doubts but i also does the utmost harm to ' political education of tho German masses and "to conservation of personal political responsibility among theroT' Strange as it may seem, dictatorship provides no fertile soil 'H'or the growth ot really strong and responsible po-litionl leadership for generations to come...
...3) That once a strike has begun, the workers affected by it shouH be immediately polled by secret vote as to whether the strike should continue or not...
...This is more than the employers had been willing to do...
...According to him the economic improvement of the German situation which in his opinion has taken place is entirely due to him and to the National Socialist Party...
...men llko Ebart...
...Curiously enough, a few days ago the coal mine excursion ialf detail', was brought back sharply to my meditations by somethlsj so apparently remote as Senator Copeland's "Captain-," and tie mav be a story worth telling because of its applications...
...This meant that daily the chains of their indebtsatSi weighed more heavily upon them...
...Tin j * in 1 i i]jM|l'f))i to keep up prices and keep dbwn wages, but of course They, IV, three establishments and three overheads...
...In synthesis, once these bills arc iiassed, the trade union movement, no longer operating on the fringe > of the law as a sort of an autono mous body of sharp-shooters, will become one of the constructive fac tors of the legal and political struc lure of the country...
...Therefore, he says: "I have de-j cided to carry out such a strengh- j enins of the German defense < forces as would give us the as-urance that these threats of wai I will not one day be transformed mto sanguinary acts of violence.'' j Perhaps never in history has se ^far-reaching a decision to in-1 crease armaments been based j ofely on a flock «f press distor- ' lions...
...AT THAT time they were allowed to work Iwo days a week sjf no more...
...In almost every utterance he gives evidence of this appalling cult ot tile ego...
...many approximately 1,300 have ! been imprisoned or put under .police arrest since 1934 and thai the arrest of the pastors has be come a routine aflair for Protes-j tant parishes," Hitler proves that I'he is anything else but a Chris tian...
...For this end he skillfully takes refuge in a few unfounded and r.ensational presS\reports stating...
...They I I could do it...
...It constantly ignored political elections...
...leri them to the apology (and oh how full of ruinous illusions:) of the general strike...
...By no effort, by no economy, by no self-denial...
...That does not moan, however, that the organized workers of, the United States should not know what their French brothers are doing in the present important period...
...absorbed them, thus greatly facilitating the victory of the Left at the general elections Qf Hay, 1936...
...nPHESE words of the Pope am supplemented by the following accusation brought forward against Hitler's government in a daring letter sent to Hitler about three ' months -ago by the Pro tee tant Chaplains of the armed, forces, who certainly cannot be suspected, of being unpatriotic...
...I should like to say to Senator Copeland, if for a mom*' j* can come oat of his trance wherein he sees the heavens AlMfi "m...
...More than ever before, it conr.ned itself to pure and simple trade unionism...
...soon after the war, which marked the beginning of its gradual evolution to the present new trends...
...For this purpose he continually contrasts the economic figures of the Germany of 1937 with those of the Germany ot 13 32...
...It is almost'grotesque, this...
...but it is equally true that from the same ranks came those French delegates (revolutionists of a quite different brand) who took part, during the war, in every international conference against war...
...entitled to make the same dis tinctjon between National Seeial-ism and the German people as such...
...It has reached the point, and this is a decisive fact, that there are now pending before the French Parliament, with the hacking ot he Left forces, including C.G.T., la Mr bills which years ago would lave provoked inflamed protests from the trade union movement...
...It can truly be called a masterpiece ot...
...Dillinger and Karpis at least faced a ri«k The profit-mongers of the mines sat at ease, received the fat tilt* of these robberies, and risked nothing...
...An Old Tri-Party Regime of Plunder THE RULE OF ANTHRACITE RAILROAD KINGS WHEN MINERS WERE SERFS AND BOYS WERE SOURCES OF PARASITE FORTUNES UNTIL THE UNION BROUGHT FREEDOM 3i...
...that misleading oratorical tech...
...They and their families must live...
...Until his premature death he did it on many other Occasions...
...Stresemann and Bruenine did their utmoet to serve tht, same interests and often did it more successfully than he...
...In what I wrote I scrupulously avoided any word thalwwf, reveal their identity...
...Likewise,, he who- is against National Socialism is no necessarily anti-German...
...The address is very lengthy and yet suppresses or conceals much too much...
...The State, according to them ,vas something deserving destruc ion, not conquest...
...1 found that the coal industry as then conducted practiced afO its employes every form of thievery from petty larceny to hifhej robbery...
...Contrasting with the marked in--iividualism-of the French worker, these bills tend to regulate tbe conflicts between Ijsjftst *a*o "laWf without, of course, smothering then, as they do in Fascist countries...
...Experience and Old Man Observation are fjjp best educators...
...I I Hitler's grandiloquence flowing | { forth for almost three hours and ¦ 1 pronouncing God's name several i j times did not find any word deal ' i ing with tho religious persecu- i j tion going on in Germany, o! | which he and his friend Alfred i Rosenberg are accused in such I | stirring words as those of Popo j Pius XI on the occasion of last i Christmas when he told tho Catholic world: "Rarely ha* . there been persecution so grave, j so terrible, so painful, so sad in : jts deep effects...
...was quiek to perceive...
...has been sidetracked even more concretely than it ap pears from What I have so far re lateri...
...I oppose Communism ujri-' reservedly...
...In omitting any word concern ing the fact that "up to the middle of last November of* the 18,000 Protestant pastors in Ger...
...We arc permitted however to as- I | sumo that their age has been j known long enough in order to make the changes less suddenly | j and sensationally...
...1 found that the company store, strieily prohiWtsdl) the laws of Pennsylvania, existed at every mine and had derelejj to perfection the effective skinning of the unfortuate miners...
...Cntil when...
...OUT the old anti-State policy ol ! the C.G.T...
...The dictator, verbose though ho is, nevertheless does not find sufficient words for the explanation of the Austro-German situation' and for a more detailed report of the conversations between him and the Austrian chancellor...
...After the Popular Front victory of May, 1936, the intervention ol the State in conflict between Capi ;al and Labor was not only accept ed but even solicited by the C.G.T...
...So I was sent into the Anthraerte Province to learn how In new arrangement would work for the miners...
...ERNST W. MEYER until recently first secretary of the Her man Embassy in the I'nited States) SEVERAL weeks have passed since Hitler delivered his mo-::it-ntoua speech before the Reichs-t.vj...
...the C.G.T...
...He who is' against Bolshevism is not necessarily aftti Russian...
...Seizes Opportunities For Serf-Praise JN contrast to other German personalities of historical importance Hitler is not only one of th« most verbose but also_again the genuine dictator type—always too clad to praise himself and his infallibility to the utmoet...
...In 1935...
...that they must be regarded as an ! element jeopardising the peace' of nations...
...ler talks at length and most vio- j ! lently (about the necessity for | protection of German minor it ies | abroad without pajtag .tribute to the .other fact mat...
...he might be right or wrong when he claims that China was or is in danger of Communism...
...Leon Jouhaux—one of thr stoutest hearts of the French poli tical world—in full accord with the C.G.T...
...It seems to me now In retrospect that the modern gangsUwl respectable compared with tbe persons that exacted Lhese coDdfc'*1 from the coal miners...
...Theseoompanies, by means of evasisfi...
...From this date on, even if the C.G.T...
...This polk-j trained for its advocates the name of revolutionary syndicalists...
...In this letter we read: "The Stat* and the Party combat today not only the churches...
...The movement was started by elements schooled in the anarchist philosophy who—although not in favor of Individualistic action — were decidedly opposed to any deal ngs with the State and its activi ies...
...Prof...
...5s * * * THE Province of Anthracite in the United States was divided JaSj three regions, dominated and practically owned by three rsf road companies, the Philadelphia a Reading, the Lehigh Vallflr jjto the New Jersey Central...
...They are permitted to listen to Hitler but they are guarded from tho danger of getting disturbed by conclusions upon their own rea 3oning< It is known that Germany is the only larger country, the government of which does not publish any budget...
...let alone merely political activities of the i churches...
...T'HERE is going on, in the Trade Union Movement of' Frr.nce, a marked change in tactics and policies, more deep and rapid than people generally realize...
...It eonstitutes ,a danger to the permanent interests of Germany...
...They cmiSS^S) only by obtaining upon credit their dally supplies at the romps* store...
Vol. 21 • March 1938 • No. 11
