Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...censor-ridden Germany seeped news last week of a 4,000-word letter sent to Reichsführer Adolf Hitler last month, in which ten responsible pastors of the German Evangelical Protestant Church daringly protested against the entire credo and technique of the National Socialist Party. This remarkable document, phrased with an air of winning deference, indicted: 1) Nazi concentration camps; 2) the Nazi espionage system within the country; 3 ) the extralegal powers of the secret political police; 4) Nazi persecution of the German Protestant churches; 5) the Nazi philosophy of "blood, race and soil"; 6) the training of school...
Ever since Adolf Hitler crushed German trade unionism, annual congresses of the International Federation of Trade Unions have been morose affairs. In London last week I.F.T.U. delegates from 22 countries convened again with smiles. They told each other that the Communist-Socialist "united front" victories at the polls in Spain and France mean that "Fascism is on the wane," despite Benito Mussolini's being on the crest...
Whether French workers are to be permitted to continue "stayin" strikes, which in law are indistinguishable from seizure of their employers' premises, was last week the prime political issue before the Popular Front Government of Socialist Premier Leon Blum. The answer was "No," reluctantly admitted Minister of the Interior Roger Salengro after the French Senate had threatened a vote of no-confidence if it were "Yes." The answer was "Yes," indignantly replied Communist Leader Maurice Thorez, whose 72 votes are indispensable to Premier Blum's coalition majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Said Irish-faced M. Thorez...
...jailbird Labor Minister of the Spanish Republic, His Excellency Juan Lluhi (pronounced Zhooee), who has been settling strikes by jailing the employers until they yielded (TIME, July 13), last week had something new and hard on his hands. Highly excitable Spanish syndicalists fell to quarreling with the Socialist building trade-unions, decided that the only thing to do was to blow up water mains. With a will, syndicalists fell to this work and soon had blown up so many mains that half the residential buildings in Madrid were without water...
...switch control of the Association's $827,000 treasury from the tight, autocratic board of directors to a new board of trustees chosen by the democratic assembly. ¶ Listened to speeches by onetime R publican Representative Burton L. French of Idaho, Democratic Governor Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, Socialist Norman Thomas, refused to pay to have them broadcast. ¶ Voted to oppose "war and military training," but turned down a resolution condemning the Reserve Officers Training ¶ Censured the school boards of Valhalla N. Y., Alexandria, Ind., Corunna, Mich., Lock Haven State Teachers College, Pa. for "unwarranted" dismissal...