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NAZI PROPAGANDA

CAMPAIGNING FOR DISCONTENT ’ LABOUR'S PLIGHT. ROBBED OF ALL RIGHTS. More than ever Nazi propagandists are making their chief objective the fermenting of industrial strife in the Empire—their persistent aim is to tell the workers of the Empire that they are being exploited by capitalists, that they are dying for those pot-bellied gentlemen, and that it is their duty to themselves io come out on general strike and demand that the war should end. 11 is not likely lhal many will be taken in by the Nazi fox. His line phrases have a hollow ring: "Germany's lighting for tile masses and true socialism” —harps the German broadcast. "Germany after victory will make the German Socialist State a pattern for the world." said Hitler (November. 1940>. But the record tells a different story. When tile Nazis take the reins, Labour's free organisations and rights are dissolved overnight. Hitler wars against the workers of all nations, and the first who suffered were the German people themselves. They would accept a lower standard of life so that money, materials and work might go towards piling up weapons of destruction. It is easy io see why the German worker could no longer choose his own kind of work. IMPORTED LABOUR. Germany's what she calls her “slave labour” was just in time, for as a German paper says: "Labour is so scarce and the pace so fast that illness and accidents are reported from every trade.” In other words, the German worker was nearing the end of his endurance

—for as far back as August. 1939, we read this official report on the internal conditions: "German industries already for years have been run on a war basis. Everywhere there is hopeless over-exertion -nnd always for a non-productive end. So a state has come about where economic capacity is exceeded, reserves exhausted, human labour overstrained and the means of production used up before they can be replaced.” Imagine the relief it must have been when it became possible (through invasion) to lighten the burden of German labour by transferring hundreds of thousands of Poles, Czechs. Dutch, Danish. Norwegian, and later French workers to Germany. Their fate was even worse than that of the Germans, and their trade unions cried out vainly for fair play. “The Industrial News” of February 27, 1940, issued by the Tracies Union Congress, points out that in spite of Hitler's promises he has robbed Czech workers of all their rights. Trade unions and co-operative organisations! have been dissolved and their funds confiscated. Tn many places workers have been driven out of the better paid positions and replaced by Nazis. Czech workers have been transported to Germany where they have to perform the most strenuous work ....

there are no longer negotiations with workers about wage questions. Wages , and labour departments of the Nazi Protectorate Office decide all such matters.” POLES VICTIMISED. The same issue of the "Industrial News” reports that Polish workers are at the mercy of a clique of Nazi officials and employers, who can conscript thorn, draft them where they will, pay them such wages and work them such hours as the Nazi police chiefs deem fit. Polish workers have no claims to local customary wages and to the limitation of hours obtaining for Gorman workers. Though even the latter have a working day of from ten to twelve hours, not counting overtime. The "Berliner Lokal Anzeiger.” referring to some new Danish laws, quotes the following message from Denmark: —“The relation between living costs and wages which has been achieved by the trade unions has been abolished'.” In Norway unemployment increases as factories shut' down for lack of raw material or markets. Norwegian unemployment insurance has ceased to operate and is not expected to revive. Norwegian labour is forced to build or repair aerodromes for the invaders. On June 27. 1940. the Hetvolk announced that 12,000 Dutch workers i were needed for Germany. On July | 1., the "Kolnische Zeitung” published I an article by Wahrburg. vice-president |of the Rhineland Labour Office, in j which lie wrote that the Dutch must now adopt a new policy regarding the I sending of labour to Germany. 'Consideration of the State's interest must be of decisive importance, and labour must go where it was wanted. Organisation and discipline were needed; the day of individualism was ovtr. ORDER TO BELGIANS. Germany’s controlled 'wireless lost no time in ordering the Belgians to "fall in" after the Nazis had ruined Belgian industry and communications. They are told there is work for them in Germany's mining industry, metalworks, textiles, etc., and on July 24 the thinly-veiled accomplished fact was broadcast in Flemish from Brussels: "Our youth has to be mobilised for voluntary labour service in order that we may prove to those abroad and io the German army of occupation that we are worthy of our place in the New European Order.” Today the German masses are urged on io greater effort in other fields bv . promises of higher wages, higher standards of living, and leisure' and the I pleasures of the capitalist classes.! These things will be given them, they; are told, in reward for being born I German, the highest and best race in creation, and at the expense of the workers in the rest of the world whose duty it will be to serve: "Today Adolph Hitler is called upon! to be the leader of the world" (Governor Frank. 2.3 12 40>, "and Germans) to be the masters of the peoples of the world." “The now aristocracy of German masters will be created. This aristocracy will have slaves Io be their property. These slaves will consist of landless non-German nationals." (Richard Walter Darro, Gorman Minister of Agriculture). “A MASTER-CLASS.” "There will be a master-class, an historical class tempered by battle . . . "There will bo a groat hierarchy of party members. They will bo the now! middle class, and there will be a great i mass of the anonymous serving colloe-!i live. eternally disfranchised . . . butit under them there will still bo a class r of subject alien races: wo need not | I hesitate to call them modern slaves." r

"The German worker will bo used only for higher forms of work. He will get the highest wages, enabling him to have the highest possible standard of living" . . . (Kehrl, high official of the Reich Economic Ministry). "Let the foreigner be used for unskilled work. It is more fitting on racial grounds that he should in all circumstances serve the German (Das Schwarze Corps). The Hamburg broadcaster who did not expect to be heard outside the Reich, boasts that: "German people have not started war for the benefit of Europe. They had no intention of sacrificing themselves on the altar of the theoretical reconstruction of their continent.” On the contrary, they from the outset have murdered and plundered those who stood in their way or had commodities, human or otherwise, which would help Germany rn her determination to gain world domination.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1941, Page 6

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NAZI PROPAGANDA Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1941, Page 6

NAZI PROPAGANDA Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1941, Page 6

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