The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-29
HITLER FORBIDS
ALL STRIKES IN
GERMANY
DEGREES Class Struggle
Out of Existence

BERLIN, May 10. by Mail The
Reich Commissioner for National
Economy, Wagner, has just issued an
order prohibiting all strikes, although
Hitler in his May l speech, proc
laimed that the National Socialist
Party has put an end to the class
struggle DR.. Ley. head of the Ger
man Workers Front" countersigned
Wagener'S order.
An eight weeks truce has been
proclaimed for all labor conflicts. This
truce proclamation-in a fight which
is all over ostensibly-must be rather
a surprise TO the Nazi followers, who
were assured that their wages would
not be reduced before September 80,
1888, AS Hitler did not confirm this
guarantee in his May Day speech, the
number of strikes supported by Nazi
workers has naturally increased
some of these strikes even being or
ganized by the Nazi factory organi-
cations.
This new order by Wagner and
Ley is also supposed to prohibit all
lockouts. but in actually it is only q
way to hold back the Nazi workers
who are told: Nobody can take
power away from us. Economic life
belongs TO us, the factories are ours,
the oTk-benches are ours. There
fore ever endeayor to destroy all this,
which belongs to US, must be nipped
in the bud. Only the enemies of
Our movement are interested in proc
tanning strikes, lockouts, or the like, q"
MOSCOW, May 10. by MaiD -
The "Pravda" comments on the EIGHT
weeks truce forbidding all strikes in
Germany as follows:
The destruction of the German
trade unions and their incorporation
into the system of the Fascist state
are among the principal methods by
which the National-Socialists are try
ing to smash the German workers
movement Therefore the destruction
of the trade unions must be consid-
cred an event Of more than ordinary
Importance.
When the Fascists were fighting
for power they demagogically main
tanned that they would transform the
trade unions into organs of AN ener-
getic battle against trust capitalism, F"
and use them in the fight for higher
wages.
Instead of this. the Fascists now
issue a decree forbidding the German
workers to employ the strike weapon
thus wholly abandoning their wages
to the arbitrary mercies of their ex-
ploiters. In so doing, the Fascists are
crushing with an iron heel the last
remnants of freedom which the Ger
man workers had won for themselves
in the course of decades. This new
decree clearly shows what the new
phase of the Fascist counter-revolu-
ton amounts to.
This is the execution of series OF
measures aimed at the complete sub
mission of the working class to the
unrestrained arbitratriness of the ex-
ploiters.
Nazis Preach Glass Collaboration
The 'Voelk1Sche Beobachter (cen-
trail organ of the Nazi Party recon-
mends to the German working class
that it feel itself at one with the
German nation. The German work
ers are to be soldiers of the nation
Collaboration between the workers
and the employers is to be estab-
lshed, just like the collaboration
between soldiers and officers at the
front. This is the honest mediation
between labor and capital that was
proclaimed by Hitler at the Fascist
Workers Congress"
The Fascists will not succeed in
destroying class struggle in Germany
by prohibiting strikes. This solution
of the workers problems by methods
copied from the Prussian army bar
racks will only increase the working
class struggle against the Fascist
dictatorship