The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22


about 300 assembled at the closed
gates of the factory, shouted: I'VE
don't want to hear all this rot!"
forced their way through a Gordon
of flremen and Gordon of police,
and despite the attempts of the
management to intimidate them by
threatening to take their names,
they made the doorkeepers open the
gates. Another 1000 men joined
them and the meeting was attended
by not more than 900 to 1000 men
in all. Resistance is on the in
crease among the women as well as
among the men, and the young
workers of both sexes are active in
the struggle against the new labor
legislation which prescribes the dis
missal of all workers under Is from
the factories and their deportation
to rural areas for agricultural task
work.
Hitler'S Mass Basis Shrinking
Discomfort has spread to the ur-
ban middle class and the peasants,
and is rife among the adherents of
the Nazi party and its auxiliary or
CARNATIONS themselves. Discomfort
is showing again, despite all purg-
ings, among the working class mem
bers of the Storm Troopers. Hit
ler's mass basis is shrinking.
The growing economic difficulties
and the increasing opposition of
the masses runs parallel with the
sharpening of the antagonisms with
in the bourgeoisie itself. These an
tagoniSms center around the dis
tribution of profits and subsidies,
the economic measures to be taken,
the best methods of holding down
the dissatisfied masses, the extent
of social concessions to be made to
them, the influence the several
groups have on the machinery of
the State, ETC., etc. Thus, for in
stance, the journal die Deutsche
Volkswirtschaft" published an arti-
Gle inspired by German exporting
interests; the article contained
violent attack on the autarchy
policy and demanded that the dis
turbance of the equilibrium of for
eign trade and exchange be ended,
i.e., that foreign trade be promoted
and an open imitation policy
adopted.
1t has recently become known
that General Fritsch, Head of the
Army Command, is the author of a
memorandum addressed to Hitler.
The memorandum never reached
Hitler, having been kept back by
General Blomberg, who wished to
avoid an eXacerbation of the situa-
ton. The memorandum deals with
the menace of Communism and the
dangers inside the country in cssse
of war, and states that under the
present political conditions nearly
half of the army would be required
at home to keep down the enemies
of the existing order. Considering
the present feeling among the mass
of the population it would be very
dangerous to give out arms indis-
criminateiy, as one could never
know against whom such weapons
would be used.
The German Labor Front, Fritsch
goes on to say, has been a failure
and he demands that social-demo-
cratic officials be called upon to
collaborate, in order to reconcile the
workers with the Hitler regime, de-
feat the inner enemy, i.e., Commu-
nism, safeguard the capitalist sys-
tenn and strengthen support for a
war policy. The threats uttered
by Hitler, Goebbels and Dare at
the beginning of this month mainly
refer to the dissension existing in
side the fascist camp itself.
The Church dispute has also in
creased in violence. The Catholic
and Protestant workers, aroused to
action by their growing poverty
are putting up fight also against
the religious oppression they are
subjected to by Hitler. They are
supported in this by such clergymer
as are in close contact with the
workers. In connection with the
differences in the camp of the
bourgeoisie, the antagonisms be-
tween the Catholic and Protestant
Church leaders on the one hanc
and Hitler, Goebbels and Rosenberg
on the other are also growing more
acute
The heaviest burden, the night
mare of the fascist dictators, is tht
Saar problem. The unity of &C
ton of the Saar workers agains
reunion with the Third Reich o.
Hitler is developing we'll; feeling il
favor of a vote for the status gu,