The producers news., 1936-03-13

are SUBJECT OF an impressive an
alysis issued in Amsterdam, Hol-
land, by the Intl. Transport Work
ers Federation under the title: The
German Working Class-Three
Years Under the Swastika.
Instead. of the things thew were
promised, the German people got:
a. complete triumph of big in
dustrialists and bankers.
% the destruction of trade un-
ions, cO-Operatives and mutual aid
societies.
9 severe wage cuts in the face
of rising profit.
d. housing shortage for the
masses in the face of huge palaces
for NaZi chiefs.
e substitutes for lard, meat
and butter.
f. forced labor schemes and
intensified gOOse-stepping.
81 the ruinatiOn of agricultural
| workers and small farmers.
h) curtailment of sick and un-
employment insurance.
j abolition of free speech and
press.
j and a mushroom growth of
poison gas factories and arma-
ment plants fOreshadOwing a big
ger and blOOdier war.
That is what Fascism means and
that is a sample of what it will
bring to every people who fail to
struggle against it or who are
tricked into accepting it under one
label or another, this well-docu-
mented report from the world
headquarters of the organized
transport workers warn.
''In Germany in 1882 the un-
ions had to decide whether or
not to engage in open struggle
for their existence" the report
recalls. '"They hesitated and
yielded, i'm the hope some miracle
would save them. Their yield
ing proved fatal"
The betrayal of the middle clas;
by the Nazis was the most fla
grant Of all, since they especially
had reposed hope in the Hitlel
regime. The report tells how the
government has tried to check dis
content over rising prices at th'
expense of the small storekeeper
Maximum retail prices have beer
set, but wholesale prices go up s.
rapidly that they are sometime
higher than prescribed retail
prices. Bankruptcy and suicide ar
proving the only way out TO
growing numbers of retailers.
''Tradesmen were thrown into
concentration camps because
they refused to sell at loss
to ease the situation the govern
ment ordered the destruction of
the cooperative societies"
What lies ahead for the Germal
people? To become the work am
mails Of Japan-in-Europe, sub
gisting on "scientific" low-cos
fodder, making cheap goods t
flood world markets, and beinI
themselves fodder for a war ma
chine of conquest-such is the pre-
sent plan of influential Nazi lead
ers. This is most frankly set fort
in quotations from The Struggl
for international Trade, by A
brecht Forstmann, Nazi econoIn1s
close to Minister of Propaganda
Public Enlightenment Goebbels.
Against such plans for the dt
graduation of the German nation
fhe report cites symptoms {
growing popular discomfort. Her
and there trade unions are Oeln
illegally formed and linked vi
spontaneous resistance to Wae
cuts and overwork is even mo-
freouent Concerted slowing dow
on the lob, refusal to make ''vo
untary'' contributions to Nazl co co
lections, boycott of fake Worl @
council company unionl election
and even occasional strikes are =
ported. 10 80;
ed and ruthlessly punished. :,
others. the Nazis have felt SUI SUI
cientIv insecure to make conce
sions, only adding the warm mi
+ba+ the victory must not be tai
ed ed about outside the shop. Inc
first faint STRINGS Of renew
assistance make it increasing
clear that Germany's future "
o,,oe,.oo ont of struggle.