The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-25
BIG INDUSTRY
STRENGTHENS
ITS CONTROL
In GERMANY
Socialists, Abstaining
at First, Cast Formal
Vote Against 1t
BULLETIN

SLE LLAIND, OltlO, war
"a. One thousand workers
marched on the German con-
sulate here today. The consul
showed them a cablegram
stating that Thaelmann was
"safe and sound"
BERLIN, March "a. - The
enabling law passed by the
Nazi Nationalist controlled
Reichstag yesterday has estab-
lished complete extra-parli-
amentary dictatorship in Germany.
Hindenburg still possesses the right
to appoint the Chancellor or members
of his Cabinet and reconstitute the
government as he desires.
This means that the industrialists
and feudal agrarians have retained
and consolidated their key positions
in the German scheme Of things.
Hindenburg's son, Major Won Hinden-
burg, is closely connected with the
German Nationalist, who still have
a majority in the Cabinet, although
their strength in the Reichstag is lit
tie more than one-sixth of the votes.
DR.. Alfred Hugenburg, managing dir
ector of the giant Krupp works dur
ing the war, owner of Germany's big
geSt newspaper chain and of the Ufa
Film Company, and chairman of the
Nationalist Party still controls the
key positions in the Cabinet, together
with Won Papen and other of Hin
denburg's personal appointees.
OF the eleven members of the Cab
met, only three are Nazis: Chancel-
Tor Hitler, Interior Minister Wilhelm
Prick, and Capt. Goering, Minister
without Portfolio.
Control of the Reichswehr is in the
hands of General Won Blomberg,
Hindenburg's personal appointee.
The division of labor enables Won
Papen and Hugenburg to shift to
Hitler and Goering the responsibility
for the NaZi reign of terror.
This scheme Of cooperation Is con-
firmed by a resolution voted yester-
day by the Executive Committee oil
the ReichSverband der Deutschen
Industrie Federation Of Industries).
under the Craftsmanship Of Krupp
Won Bohlen and Holbach, owner Of
the famous Krupp munitions and
steel works. The unanimous reso-
luton expresses the industrialists'
support Of the Hitler Cabinet, stating
that cit had laid the basis for stable
government" 1t specified that for
mer governments had allowed para
lying interferences as a result Of
their vacillating policies" and pledged
the Federation's fullest support to the
The Social Democratic Party did
in yesterdays Reichstag to
block passage of the Hitler high
pressure law. On March %, the New
York Times Berlin correspondent re-
ported that "the Socialists decided
today not to oppose the full enact
ment of the empowering measure at
Reichstag session, al
though they would have been able
to do so by simple protest"
Not Socialist voice was raised to
block the unanimous consent re-
CURED for advancing the bill from its
first reading to the second, or from
the second to the third. Only when
the final vote came up, did the So
cialist deputies make a gesture to-
wards their millions Of working class
followers, by casting "a votes against
the bill after they themselves had
assured its passage that very Gay.
This was further emphasized by
Otto Wells speech in the Reichstag
before the vote. Wells, chairman of
the Social Democratic Party, begged
the Nazis mot to take our honor from
us" and pointed to the Socialists
patriotic record during the past four
teen years.
Wells merely repeated in more pa
thet'c tones what he had written to
Won Papen after the notorious Reich
stag fire, in which he assured the
'hirhly respected Vice Chancellor"
that the Social Democratic Party had
nothing to do with the Communists
and that "it is sufficient to examine
the Communist Presss sharp attacks
on the Social Democratic Party to be-
come convinced that united front
between the Communists and the So
cial Democrats does not exist" He
also denied that the Vorwaerts
printed any report that the Reich
stag had been set on fire at Goering's
orders.