COMMUNISTS IN GERMANY GAIN IN BALLOTING
COMMUNISTS IN GERMANY GAIN IN BALLOTING Hungry Workers Vote for Red Revolution and 76 Reds Win Reichstag Places NEW YORK.—Cables from Germany indicate sweeping gains by the "right" and "left"...
...AUTO OUTPUT IN A HEAVY DECLINE NEW YORK.—The total output of motor vehicles in the United States and Canada for the first eight months of this year was 2.842.000 units, as compared with 4.444.947 for the same period in 1929...
...The combined vote of Fas-cists and Communists was 20.000.000 of the total of 35,500,000 votes cast for 11 parties...
...The Fascists capitalized a national spirit and opposition to the treaty settlement of the World war...
...NO CHRISTMAS HAM FOR UNION WORKERS GREENSBORO, N. C—The Cone mills management warns workers that they will receive no Christmas ham if they are not on the pay roll at that time...
...Both groups, backed by the 41 representatives of the National party, which stand...
...This group are moderates and would be classed as advanced Progressives in the United States, although they talk Marxian Socialism during campaigns...
...The Social Democrats is the leading party, receiving 9,000.000 votes and winning 137 seats...
...The background for the Communist gain is the unemployment and general distress in Germany...
...for a return to German monarchy, will be a menace to the parliamentary system of government now in vogue n the German republic...
...It is not the ham what am' at Christmas that Is interesting Greensboro workers, but the 'ham what ain't' 364 other days of the year," said A. F. of L. Organizer Gaskill...
...COMMUNISTS IN GERMANY GAIN IN BALLOTING Hungry Workers Vote for Red Revolution and 76 Reds Win Reichstag Places NEW YORK.—Cables from Germany indicate sweeping gains by the "right" and "left" wings of autocracy in recent elections in that country...
...The worker* reply: "Give us a living wage and we will buy our own hams...
...The Fascists won 107 seats in the Reichstag (German parliament.1 This is a gain of 92...
...The election1 will probably result in a coalition between the Social Democrats and other groups to resist the three-cornered assault on the parliamentary form of government by the Fascists, Communists and National party, who will control 221 of a total of about 575 Reichstag seats...
...The Fascists want a dictator like Mussolini...
...The Communists increased their representation from 54 to 76 seats...
...More than 95 per cent came from the United States...
...Several European countries besides Italy have dictators and the general unemployment problem is being capitalized by revolutionists of all degree...
...The Communists' program provides that all land shall be seized without compensation and that department stores shall be confiscated and divided into small shops that will be rented by the state...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 43
