PROMISES TO WORKERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 December 1940, Page 3

PROMISES TO WORKERS

SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT IN GERMANY SIGNS THAT LEADERS ARE CONCERNED. TALK OF CRUISING LINERS & MODEL FLATS. (British Ofl'iclal Wireless.) RUGBY, December 24. Among observers who follow with the closest interest the development of social conditions and public opinion in Germany under the Nazi dictatorship some significance is attached to the fact that three times within 10 days German workers have been singled out for special addresses by principal Nazi leaders. These have had the common characteristic of holding out promises of benefits of a most realistic kind to which the long-suffering German masses may look forvyard if and when the Nazis have successfully secured permanent control of the victims of their aggression during the past three years.

The first speech to workers came from Herr Hitler himself on December 10, when he said: “We shall give the people access to everything which makes life worth living—after the war.” Such pride and self-reliance as seven years of the Nazi regime have left among the German workers can hardly fail to be affronted by the patronising manner in which the lesser Nazi leaders endeavour to induce them to remain satisfied till victory is achieved. “After the war I will build you 100 ‘Strength Through Joy’ cruising liners,” the Labour Front leader, Dr. Ley said recently, and to women he added some days later: “After the war wc will build you flats. The Fuehrer is really concerned about the need for a pantry in each of these flatsand a room where you can put your brooms.”

There is no attempt to conceal how the Nazis intend to secure these rewards for a faithful German people. They are to be obtained principally at the expense of foreign workers mobilised as unskilled wage slaves of the German herrenvolk. “After the war the German workers will have to work only on high-grade, highly-paid craftsmanship,” announced Herr Kahl, of the Nazi Ministry of Economics, while a writer in the member “Korps,” the organ of Hitler’s Black Guards, bluntly declared: “After the war it is obvious that in the more responsible and difficult but also better-paid skilled jobs preference must be given to German workers. Let foreigners be used for unskilled work.”