The Washington times., 1937-01-27
BY PIERRE J. HUSS
(Copyright, 1887, by International
News Service)

BY PIERRE J. HUSS
(copyright, 1887, by International
News Service)
BERLIN, Jan 27.-"WOrkers
Of Germany, / have done away
with unemployment and SO full
filled my promise to you of four
. years ago."
These are words which Adolf
Hitler no doubt will use with great
relish in one form or another dur
ing the anniversary of his fourth
year as Nazi dictator. They are to
him solid base upon which to
build his approach to the next
four years, Statistically convincing
and dead sure of drawing deafen-
ing roars of approval from those
100000 Germans who are listen
ing.
Outsiders, and not a few Ger
mans, may be inclined to accept
such a broad statement with a
grain of salt, but much of this
skepticism consciously or other
wise may be directed against the
Nazi methods of reducing unem-
ployment rather than against the
fact that unemployment in Ger
many obviously has been cut to
an amazing extent.
100000 Were Idle
The battle against unemploy-
ment, hunger and cold, has been
one which Hitler fought during his
first four years with grim deter
mination and relentless endeavor.
German statistics show joblesS
in Germany had reached the stag
gering peak of 100000 souls.
Factories shipping, railways, and
all walks of German industrial,
economic and community life re-
flected stagnation and its devas-
tating effect on the physical and
moral status Of the German
citizen.
Hitler promised, in assuming
power under President Hinden-
burg, that at the end of four years
every capable workman in Ger
many would again be drawing his
wages and earning his daily bread.
At the beginning of 1887, ac-
cording to statistics Of the Off
cial Institute for Business Re
search, unemployment fell to only
100000, and it was predicted
+AoA &da 0Io1yY,o ont fjoI1rn would
sink and rise seaSonally, but
would never rise above 100000.
The statement pointed out that
by the end of 1887 there should
be only about 100000 real jobless
and In 1923 about 100000.
From 1888 on, the statement
says. an average Of 100000 un-
employed were put into perma-
nent Jobs each year. Before the
war, the statement also recalls,
Germany had a standing unem-
ployed total of around 100000,
the bulk of them either unfit for
work or jobless because of their
own fault.
How He Did It
RftIer grappled with unemploy-
nlent In the way that only an alb
solute dictator, unhampered by
parliamentarian considerations is
able to: conscription into the army
and labor service removed from
TIE labor market the influx of
youthful hordes; unprecedented
public construction, development,
reclamation, and highway prof.
eCts absorbed skilled and un-
skilled by the thousands.
ReArmament on a world-Start-
ling scale on land, sea and in the
air swamped the great German in
dustr1es with orders and precipi-
tated mass hiring of labor; mar
kets for German products were es-
tablished abroad with the finan-
cial and political help of the gov
eminent; and finally wider de-
pendence on home products was
forced upon farmers through cur
rency restrictions, and drastic re-
ductions in foreign exports, thus
developing scores of new indus
tries catering to the needs of Ger
many itself.
The whole effort to produce Ger
many'S own raw materials and
have the nation become self-suf-
ficient crystaIlized in the second
four-year plan, Hitler's life insur-
ance against future unemploy-
ment.