The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1920-06-02
Fate of Eastern Jewish
Workers in Germany
NEW CLASS INTRODUCED ARE
DISTURBING INFLUENCE.

! of victory and OF domination IN EAST
crn Europe and in her proclamations
promised the golden fleece itself to the
| freed Polish Jews" she brought thirty
thousand Eastern Jewish workers into
the country to work her war indus
tries. The lot of the workers in the
subjugated territories, the brutality
which greeted them at every step, the
enforced servitude without sufficient
food. water and clothing. and the ter
rible punishments meted out to those
who dared complain. are among the
most revolving of the Junker atrocities
IN the late World War. of the labor
companies sent into Lithnunia. and the
neighboring provinces many died from
hunger. many froze to death. and not
few were lost in the bewilderins for
ests.
The introduction of Eastern Euro
pean Jewish labor into Germany Great
/ ed II complex problem both for them
and for the German workers. Need
less to say. the native workers hardly
looked upon their immigrant competi-
tors Win laNOf.
\ new class of Jewish workers was
in the process of development. the
hard. muscular toiler in the funda-
mental industries. Heretofore. the be-
lief had been prevalent that the Jews
only enter in the last stages of the
productive process. The Russian econ
omist Margulin, in his The Economic
Status of the Working Glasses of Rus
sia." pointed out that in the prelimii-
ary stages of production. i. O. the rails
ing or preparation of the raw ma
| terial no Jews or very few of them,
ut least. are employed. AS the pro-
ductivc series advances their proper
tion increases and is greatest in the
handling of the completed article. The
lJew-- was supposed to betoo indlvid-
ualisfic to wish to subject himself TO
mass discipline. to become mere cog
in the wheel of machine. But dur
ing the war. however. the Eastern Jew
entered the incipient processes of IN
lustry. He became n builder of rail-
roads. lumber jack. an agricultural
worker. etc.
But the Jews individualism is
bound to come ont even in the na-
chine shop and factory. He is not con
tent with being mere blind mechanl-
cal instrument. but seeks to stamp his
personality upon his work. He turns
to his spiritual life. to his culture to
compensate him for the grinding mono
tony of his toll. And so. rs soon
MS the Eastern lew reached Germany
IA land so high in civilization. and
vet so low in culture--he craved for
J the cultural institutions which he left
| behind him and strove to satisfy his
intellectual needs in the new home.
With Germany's downfall came the
revolution. All hoped that it would
also bring freedom. What vain dreams
Perhaps it was even better for all and
particularly for the Jews when mill
tarism ruled with an iron fist and al
lowed no one to raise his head. But
the present. the uncertainty of life it
self. the constant dread pf what may
come. the daily persecutions-whnt
could be worse?
The German people is now living
thru the most decisive crisis. 1t is
now struggling with death. because
ii has been condemned to die. Has
the German people learned very much
| from the war and the revolution?
That is difficult to say. 1t is now
leading very abnormal life. is dis
sipatng its energy in easy pleasures.
and drowning its spirit in hate and in
dreams of revenge Like IA deadly call
Ger this hate has gripped the German
"oul, ingrowins deeper and deeper UNI
til it now dominates all feeling and di-
reefs all thought SO it is a relief tn
find ii group of people, driven and
pursued everywhere. beyond the pale
of all law and human consideration.
upon whom to pour out its self CON
suming bitterness. a scapegoat for the
whole calamity of Germany is sought.
and who is it that is found the
Jew The Jew brought ON the World
War thru his capitalism: he melted
many countries against Germany: he
agitated in the trenches. on the battle
field in the camps to revolutioniZe the
soldiers. wilhelm abdicated Ger
many's military might was broken.
Finally came the Peace Treaty AMI
naughty Germany bit the dust. who
brought all these catastrophes upon
us? Who is responsible for our alb.
i;ect humiliation?" the people ask and
the anti-Scmites point 70 the .Ie'H:
"He is responsible for everything Not
even the Socialists have escaped the
general poisoning. for example: The
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