Evening star., 1933-10-05
HITLER DENOUNCED
|. At LABOR SESSION
AS CAPITALS ALLY
British Representative Says
Move Against Liberty Is
Engu|fing Europe.
GERMaNY'S 100000
UNION MEN WIPED OUT
Mooney and Billings Pardons
Again to Be Asked by American
Federation Convention.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A denunciation of Adolf Hitler as a
"conspirator" with capitalism and Com
munism against true democracy" was
put before the American Federation OF
Lavor Convention at the Willard Hotel
today by James Rowan, representing
the British Trades Union Conference.
Pointing to the different reactions to
the depression that had developed in
America and Europe, Rowan said, AL
most at the moment when your Presi-
dent was beginning your bold move
ment, which We are watching with great
sympathy, another was starting in Eu-
rope"
1T was a movement to destroy the
! institutions of free citizenship, and 1t
already has engulfed a good portion OF
Europe" Rowan said.
Recalling that the German trade
unions had 100000 members before
Hitler became dictator, Rowan said
they had been wiped out overnight "as
if their movement had been a feeble,
struggling thing
Dinner for McGrady Tonight.
The Federation tonight will pay
honor to one of its longtime leaders,
when a dinner for Edward F. McGrady,
! Assistant Secretary OF Labor Is helc
! at the Willard.
| Tomorrow night, the convention oaIl
will be held.
To open today's session. Rev. w. S
Abernethy, pastor of Calvary Baptls'
Church, pronounced the invocation.
! Just before Rowan spoke, the con-
yention indicated once more 1t Woulo
request unconditional pardons tor
Thomas ]. Mooney and Warren Z;
Billings, imprisoned for their a!legeo
narticipation in the bombing during a
! 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Gay
parade.
The convention gave unanimous con-
sent for the introduction of resolu-
tion to this effect by the California
State Federation of Labor.
| Marking time until its committees
are ready to bring in reports on pend
| ing resolutions, the convention occu-
pied itself during the morning with ao-
dresses by delegates from abroad az
well as the United States.
In Germany, Rowan IOlu l1iC va
vention. "it is well planned consplr-
acy on the part of former leaders tc
regain the power they lost when tney
lost the World War.
"Hitler's movement has been suppIleo
money by the big industrialists."
Some of it has been contributed OIL
rectly, he asserted, while more has peer
given to Hitlers agents in Switzerland
and France.
He quoted a statement from a book
bv Albert Einstein to the effect that
your own Henry Ford contributed te
Hitler"
Fellowship Significant.
This, I am aware, has been denied
Rowan said, adding that, nevertheless
it was impossible to ignore the fac'
that capitalists and nfonarchlsts nave
joined Hitler"
Communistic Russia, the British dele
gate said. processes to object to the
Nazi's policies, but as yet has done
nothing to prove that expressed atti'
tude
Formal requests from the Federation
convention for greater speed in the ex
penditure of public works money ant
for revision of N. r. A. codes to assure
shorter hours and higher pay were fore
cast today by men influential in FEEDER
alton councils.
They were interpreting Secretar!
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