The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1933, Page 6

* Page Six Published by the Comprodafly Publishing 18th St., New York City, N. ¥. Telephone ©o,, Inc, datty except Sunday, at 08 ALgonquin 4-2955. Cable “DAIWORK.” Address and mail chacks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York, N. ¥. Daily, Worker’ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.50; 3 months, $2; 1 month, 75e, exeepting Borough of Manhattan and Bro Canada: One y a New York City. 3 month: Foreign 3. AUGUST 29, 1938 —By Michael Gold— The Skunks of Jass Wah! wah! mourn the jackal saxophones Brown old scavengers Waiting for man © Waiting for man to InAhe bleached American desert And the skunks of jess draw near Pretty soft-furred darlings Spraying venom Beware their acid p—~ Beware the hot cha cha ye hoo Of the jazz skunks! Cheek to jowl and belly to sts In tinsel chop suey hefls squirm the Americans Dumb young Caliban staves Eunuchs of capitalism Castrate of soul Knowing but wah! wah! Jazz, jazz! rattling skeletons at play Who never can find human joy Wah, wah! O the jazz torment Capitalism is the world grave Where man moulders and waits a resurrection Wah, wah! in shrieking dance hall I hear that sad mean capitalist wah wah Yet under it great and unborn Ever the Lenin harmonies ‘The Lenin Beethoven music Listen friend and you will hear % How clear, how pure, O Lenin Beethoven music ‘True bridal of the earth and sky Flutes and trumpets to drown forever That wah wah world of the Yahoo. An Invitation I am certain of at least a dozen letters asking what the foregoing poem means. Piease, comrades, do not ask me to fully explain. It is headache enough to write these things, without being forced into ex- tra verbiage. . But it is a free verse impression of a wasted evening in a dance hall. I do not always hate jazz; I think it has some merit as a source of new rythms. Jazz may be good also to dance to, but on the whole, it is fairly tawdry and cheap, and has no real depths of emotion. Jazz is a kind of lumpen-proletarianism in music, the pattern of a cheap Broadway crook. dazz has no roots in anything es- cept the Broadway pavement. It hasn’t the profound sincerity of folk- music or of primitive music like the Indian or African dances. And it hasn’t the high lofty imagination of a Bach or Beethoven; in other words, it is neither worker nor intellectual, but a kind of commercial product, rootless, meaningless, adulterated. T like to dance to jazz occasionally. But what Art Young, the cartoonist, once said impressed me: .“Tt tries to be gay, but jazz is the most pathe- tie music I ever heard, like an ape trying to make human sounds.” Now here is the invitation. If you disagree with these views on jazz, write us a letter. Jazz is important in American life, and is worth dis- cussing. In the Soviet Union jazz was outlawed for many years as a source of bourgeois corruption. I used to think that a foolish attitude, but now aia not so sure. Because I own a radio and once after listen- ing te several hours of jaca from a dozen differen! stations, I wanted to somewhere and shoot my lunch int I wrote that poem instead: poetry & relief for the emotions; a cathar- for the mind. Bob Minor on Staten Island Bob Minor, who is Communist can- @idate for Mayor of New York, came down to Staten Island to speak last ‘weekend. It was at the camp grounds ef the Scandinavian Workers’ Club. @tanding on the tailend of a truck, against the booming waters of Rari- tan Bay, the tall Texas artist made a sober speech analyzing the NRA and pointing out that it was nothing but ® great wage-cut. At one point he did an effective thing. There were some 300 workers in the crowd, mostly butlding trades workers, and Bob asked anyone in the crowd to raise his hand if he had received a raise since NRA and the Blue Buzzard. Only two workers Yaised their hands. It was a graphic Mllustration of what NRA really was accomplishing. These two workers, husky young men, were getting $12 and $18 a week each. As Bob pointed out, the $2 raise given them didn’t cover the spread in the rising price of food and clothing. They were really getting a wage-cut. Regarding the Weather One of Mark Twain’s complaints was that “everyone talked about the weather, but nobody did anything about it.” Recently, we have been suffering from a bout of crazy weath- er around New York. First, there was a terrific wave of heat and humidity. Then there was a tropical gale, raging and smashing down trees, cracking big plate glass show win~ dows in the city, rolling up giant tides. And nobody could do anything about it. Strangely enough, this futility in the face of the weathar is one of the stock arguments of religious-minded capitalists. It is God, so the legend goes, who makes the storms and the heat, who sends thunder, death and capitalism, and who chooses who Shall be a slave. In all the religious creeds there stands high the gospel of obedience, of resignation to one’s Jot on this earth. In other words, God gave Cali- fornia the earthquake, Florida the hurricane, ice storms to the North- west, and prickly heat to New York. God also gave Harry K. Thaw his millions, and the coal miners their Painful lack of millions. But some scientific atheists are working on the idea that the weather ean be controlled. Recently an Amer- {ean acroplane bombarded the clouds with tons of dry ice, and started a much-needed rainfall. Engineers are also studying the Sahara and Arctic regions. Maybe it will be possible to shoot a cyclone down at its birth, before it gets a chance to do damage. FULL-FASHIONED HOSIERY _ WORKERS IN | Unions of 70,000 Worke | tatives to Elect Delegates—Western Farmers | to Send Many to New York Congress PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 28.—The national convention of the American of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, an independent union rep- | | | Federation | resenting 70,000 workers, in session he: dorsing the United States Congress A; to support it and to send delegates. © The United States Congress Against War will meet in New York, Sept. 29 to Oct, 1. Farm States Elect Delegates | NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—Eighteen | or twenty young workers will repre- sent the state of Nebraska as dele- | gates to the U. S. Anti-War Congress, the arrangements committee for the | | Congress announced today. | Many of them have already been | elected, at farmers’ picnics held in | various parts of the state under the | auspices of the Nebraska Anti-War | Committee, with headquarters at Lin- | coln. The whole delegation will be |elected at these picnics at which | funds will also be subscribed to send | them to New York. They will come} | together in trucks. Farmers of Wyoming have also elected a delegate, at a meeting in Hawk Spring, under the auspices of the Wyoming anti-war committee, | which announces that several dele- gates will be sent from that state. | Ammeringer Joins Committee | Twenty-one organizations re- senting 4,000 members, including the Civil War Veterans Association of Boise, Idaho, and unemployed, farm- ers’ prohibition, student, fraternal and religious organizations have formed the Idaho State Committee | Against War which will send ten delegates to the Congress. Four have already been elected. The Idaho committee is carrying on a successful press and radio campaign to popular- ize the Congress. Oscar Ammeringer, editor of the American Guardian, a Socialist pub- lication and a member of the Social- ist Party has joined the arrange- ments committee for the U. 8S. Congress Against War. zo WASHINGTON, Aug. 28—An appeal to Presi@ent Roosevelt to stop naval construction, recall American marines from China, and to call for repeal of the Japanese Exclusion Act was made today by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. German Economist Exiled by Nazis Will Tour America NEW YORK.—Professor Alfons Goldschmidt, noted German econ. omist exiled by the Nazi regime, will arrive here today on the steamer Gripsholm, He will lecture throughout the country under the auspices of the American Committee Against Fas- cist Oppression in Germany, whose offices are at 551 Fifth Avenue. Professor Goldschmidt is well- known in this country and in Eu- rope as the author of several books on Germany. While here, he will lecture also for the National Committee to Aid Vict- ims of German Fascism, as well as other United Front anti-fascist or- ganizations. Say Arms Smuggled in for Irish Fascists CORK, Irish Free State, Aug. 28. | —A report was widely current here! today that 2,550 rifles and eight | cases of ammunition had been smug- gled into Ireland at Mizen Head, Cork county, by a trawler from Bel- gium. They are believed to be con- signed to the Irish Fascist Party, | the “National Guard.” General Owen O’Duffy, leader of |the Irish Fascist National Guard, fooled the police and adressed two meetings of his blue-shirt followers yesterday, at Bandon and Crooks. town. Detectives who were ordered to stop meetings followed a decoy car: while O’Duffy’s car doubled back to the place of meeting. The Fascists have been declared illegal by President Eamonn de Valera. |New. Taxes Asked to Meet French Deficit PARIS, Aug. 28.—Facing a deficit of 9,600,000,000 francs ($545,280,000), the French government will demand the imposition of new taxes and the cutting of government expenditures, Lucien Lamoureux, budget minister, declared yesterday. He said the government might go under otherwise, as capitalists who did not receive interest on their gov- ernment investments would refuse to lend the government any more money. Nearly $58,000,000. of this deficit is now overdue as interest to capitalist investors. Report Attempt to Kill Reichsbank Head PRAGUE, Aug. 28.—'Dhe “Sozial Demograt,” organ of the runaway German Socialists, says that three Storm Troopers arrested in Berlin have confessed to a plot to assas- sinate Dr. Hjalmar Schact, presi- dent of the German Reichsbank. , The paper reports them as say- ing they meant the assassination as a protest against the non-fulfil- ment of Adolf Hitler’s social pro- gram, Well, well, this is all utopian, of course, but what really is important 4s that a bunch of atheist skeptics have challenged the whole idea that Poverty is divine, They now rule the Soviet Union, and on the hot- test or windiest day in New York, many of us feel better when we think of the Soviet Union CONVENTION rs Urged by Represen- re last week, passed a resolution en- gainst War, and urging all its locals Arbitrator Breaks. Cuban Rail Srike 15-Day Truce Accepted by Workers HAVANA, Aug. 28.—While most of the strikes in Cuba remained solid, the railway workers’ strike | which had tied up transportation in Camaguey and Oriente province was broken by a decision of the workers to return to work today and wait 15 days for an arbitration commis- sion to take up their demands. Six hundred men on horseback gave the proprietors of a sugar mill near Cienfuegos 24 hours in ‘which to accept the workers’ demands: for @ wage increase and better living and working conditions. Colonel Charles Muecke, Ameri- can adventurer, has offered the ov- ernment a force of 300 men which he calls a Civil Guard, to be used against striking workers. Eleven bodies of victims of Ma- chado in the 1931 revolution. were found in Pinar del Rio province; Julian Rivero was killed and eight others injured, two Nagin! fatally, in a gun fight at the headquarters of the Havana Labor Federation, a reformist organization, NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—General Alberto Herrera, Machado’s minis. ter of war and acting secretary of state, is at the Barbizon-Plaza hotel. He landed in New York today from the liner “Haiti,” with his wife, four children, a nephew and three serv- ants, from Kingston, Jamaica. He was met by a heavy guard of police, Sires MONTREAL, Aug. 28.—Gerardo Machado, former president of Cuba, will land here next Sunday on the S. S. “Lady Rodney,” from Nassau, Bahamas. He has permission -to stay three months in Canada. Hindenburg Hails Kaiser; Nazis Mass At Two Frontiers BERLIN, Aug. 28.—The only message to the German people for weeks of Paul von Hindenburg, who continued as president of Ger- many by the vote of the Social Dem- ocrats at the last election, was made yesterday at a celebration at the Tannenberg monument. His message was a declaration of “veneration, loyalty, and gratitude to my Kaiser, king and master.” The Tannenberg meeting was one of two mass Nazi meetings at the German frontiers — Tannenberg, in East Prussia, is close to the Polish border. The other meeting was at the Niederwald mountain on the Rhine, near the Saar basin. Hitler spoke at both, going by plane from Tannenberg to the Nied- erwald. At Tannenberg, the. spot where Hindenburg defeated the Russian army during the World War, the Nazi leaders declaimed vi- gorously against the Versailles treaty and the Polish Coridor. At the Neiderwald, only 150,0 of the promised million persot were present. Here Hitler declared that the Saar, which remains under the League of Nations jurisdiction until a nationality plebiscite in 1935, will never be given up by Germany. a American Capitalists Co SUPPORT ANTI-WAR MEET | | | | | JUST MARRIED! | oF et USE OR Sr estaNe NEWS ITEM: William Green, and the Labor Advisory Board of the NRA have ap- proved the open shop clause for the auto code, just signed by President Roosevelt. —By Burek France Pledges Armed Force to Support Austria Premier Inspects Giant Fortifications on German Border PARIS, Aug. 28.—France will protect Austria against Nazi ag- ‘ression by arms if necessary, Bemiee Edouard Daladier declared esterday, as he left to inspect ‘rance’s completed $100,000,000 line of fortifications which extend along the whole German frontier, for 125 miles from the Rhine to Luxemburg. While Chancellor Adolf Hitler was demonstrating at the Nieder- wald, just across the Rhine from the Saar Valley, Daladier was on his way to Metz, at the German border, 5 The new French fortifications are declared to be proof against any attack. They include an immense system of underground barracks and trenches, without a break along the whole frontier, and broken at 16. mile intervals by shell-proof vaults from which artillery and machine guns can lay down a permanent bar- rage along the whole line, Zionists Hear Charges of Palestine Fascism PRAGUE Aug. 28.—The General Council of the Zionist Congress, which has just voted. down a boy- cott of Germany and arranged ne- gotiations with the Nazis to expa- triate all Jews from Germany was concerned today with the question of Jewish Fascism in Palestine. In a dramatic all-night session, charges that the Zionist Fascists, who are anti-labor and anti-Semitic so far as the Arabs in Palestine are concerned, are carrying on a cam- paign of terrorism in Palestine were heatedly attacked and de- fended. A committee was elected to go to Palestine to investigate. _ Chayges were made that Revision- ist terrorists had been the murder- ers of Chaim Arlosoff, chief of the political department of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. French Warships Occupy St. Pierre After Tax Riots ST. PIERRE, St. Pierre and Mi- quelon, Aug. 28.—The town of St. Pierre was occupied today by armed sailors from two French warships after mobs had rioted several times in protest against taxes imposed against the vote of the elected mem- bers of the government, by Gover- nor Barillot of France. Four rioters who were arrested were freed by a crowd which smash- ed in the jail door. The economy of these French is- lands off Newfoundland has been thrown into a crisis by the decline of rum running. Taxes such as $20 a year for dogs, $25 a year for mo- torboats, $15 a year for pianos, have been imposed by the French governor. Nazis Seize Wife, Daughter of Pieck BERLIN, Aug. 28.—The wife and daughter of Wilhelm Pieck, leading Communist Reichstag deputy, were arrested yesterday in a raid on his house, A third person whose name was not given was arrested at the same time. Twenty-eight men and ten women were arrested in Remscheid, as Communists by police Mass arrests of Communists were made in Lauban, according to the police, who said they were held without charges in retaliation for the death of a man who was “sup- posed to have been killed by Com- munists or sympathizers.” United Front Parade To Be Held in Fort Worth on Labor Day FORT WORTH, Texas.—A Uni- ted Front Labor Day parade will be held here of the Unemployed Councils, Socialist Party local, Com- munist Party and Workers’ Ex. Servicemen’s League. Un this same day the American Federation of Labor will parade through the main streets of Fort Worth together with the American Legion, Chinese Red Army Seizes City in New Drive Toward Sea Advancing on Large Center in Fukien Province PEIPING, Aug. 27.—The Chin- ese Red Army has occupied the city of Wangtai, in northern Fu- kien province, and are advancing on Yenping, a large center on the Min river, it was reported here today. This is the first victory of the new drive into northwest Fukien province, from the red districts of Kiangsi province, immediately to the west. This brings them with- in 100 miles of the coast, about half-way between Shanghai and Canton, in the fertile valleys to the east of the Soviet districts. 50: JoblessWomen Back From Camp; Picked from 1800 Registrants NEW YORK.—Fifty unemployed women returned from Camp Mt. Ivy relief camp pesetday. These 50 were hand selected out of a group of 1800 jobless women who are re- gistered with the Emergency Work and Relief Bureau, Commenting on these women, William Matthews, director of the Bureau said, that the girls selected, “are the ones who derive most bene- fit mentally as well as physically from a country atmosphere.” Aberdeen Unemployed Leaders Trial Is Set ABERDEEN, S. D.—Paul Seid- ler, unemployed leader, is faced with a double charge of “obstruct- ing traffic,” and is held under double bonds of $100, for addressing meet- ings of the unemployed near a re- lief station, and in Aldrich Park. Trial is set for Sept. 5. World S.P. Congress Maneuvers to Knife United Front Action Congress Meeting to Work Out New Deceits of Workers, Took Long Step Toward Fascist Development, Says Bela Kun in “Pravda.” By BELA KUN. MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Aug. 28 (By Cable).—(Editor’s Note: the f ing article by Bela Kun, entitled “Social-Fascist Deadlock United Revolft- tionary Front”, is published in the M nist Party of the Soviet Union.) The Paris “rejuvenating” confer United Front and Anti-War Struggle Sabotaged by YPSL OustedMembersDecide to Join Young Communists READING, Pa., Aug.. 28—The un- seated Chicago delegation to the national Young Peoples Socialist League Congress, and the other members expelled from the Y. P. S, L, for taking part in united front struggles, have decided to join the Young Communist League. The conference of the Y. P. S. L. yesterday adjourned after rejecting all concrete proposals for united action, and without even discussing the National Recovery Act, the So- viet Union, the war danger, or the Scottsboro and Mooney cases. The conference refused by a vote of 61 to 50 to hear a representative of the Young Communist League who came with a plea for united action of all youth organizations, The speeches were featured by vi- cious attacks on the Y. ©, L. The insurgent left wing, including the expelled members and many sympathizers, are holding a final con- ference, in which they will make plans to fight for the united front. Socialist Official Doesn’t Send Debaters| {tional to join in the struggle against | , \Fascism. The offer was declined by to “Innocent Clubs” NEW YORK. — The Tremont Workers Club sent a worker to the Rand School to get a speaker to participate in a debate on the NRA. The worker spoke to Abe Belsky in charge of the Socialist Party’s speakers bureau. Belsky told the workers, there was nothing to de- bate about on the NRA, but sug- gested he send an official letter and “we'll take it up.” The worker however wasn’t sat- isfied with this answer. He walked into the local office of the S. P. and explained the situation to an tasparsent looking official sitting before a big desk. “Oh no,” replied this official, “we don’t send debaters to any ‘innocent’ clubs.” “Innocent”? questioned the sur- prised worker, “why, that is a work. ers club.” “Yes,” replied the official, “that’s the answer.” Arrest 3 for Turning on Gas for Jobless in Wilkensburg, Pa. WILKINSBUKw, Pa. — Three members of the Unemployed Coun- cil here have been arrested, and the Equitable Gas Co. has had war- rants issued for a large number of others, on charges of turning on gas in the homes of unemployed work- ers. The three arrested were George Lewis, A. M. Collins, and Peter Mundsinger. The ° Interna- tional Labor Defense has furnished bond pending court -hearing. Work- ers are being mobilized to protest these arrests and to demand the release of the three and cancellation ® ing the Second International. tion of social legislation, etc. of the warrants issued. loscow “Pravda”, organ of the C: ence has not succeeded in consolit Th Conference was planned by the lead- ers of the Second International to weaken the indignation roused among wide sections of the working masses against the treachery of German Social Democracy. ‘The Conference was called in order to create illusions of the existence of a “better” Social Democracy than the German. Otto Bauer was forced to declare | that the Commission did not succeed in obtaining a majority on the ques- tion of whether it is expedient to make a new offer to the Communist International to start negotiations on the United Front. An opinion according to which the Second International was left a “free hand” in negotiations with the Com- intern got the upper hand. Every working man must draw the conclu- sion that the offer of a united front which the cond International made to the Comintern was a de- ceitful maneuver. The object of the maneuver was to sabotage the joint struggle of Com- munist and Socialist workers for carrying out definite tasks, particu- larly the struggle against Fascist re- action, reduction of wages, liquida- Otto Wels left the Bureau of the Second International. because he could not, while negotiating with Hitler, head the organization which was attempt- ing a deceitful maneuver by declar- ing itself ready to negotiate with the leaders of the anti-Fascist struggle and the Comintern. The leaders of the Second Inter- national obtained their object that all. the Social Democratic Parties shculd decline the offer of united front made to them by various sec- tions of the Communist Interna~ the British Labor Party, and the Austrian, Belgian, Czechoslovakian Social-Democratic Parties. These ~ parties simultaneously intensified their attack against the Communist Parties of their countries. The fascist. development of the Second International made a great step forward at the Congress through the French Socialist Party, by the action of a “Neo-Fascist” group. The Czechoslovakian Social- Demiocratic minister participated in the persecution of anti-Fascist fight- ers who emigrated to Czechoslovakia. Roosevelt’s economic policy, which Mussolini describes as the economic Substance of fascism, is described by the Social-Fascists as a “movement towards Socialism.” The united front of Communist and Social-Democratic workers, how- ever, is making great progress. Un~ der the leadership of the German Communist Party, ever greater num- bers of Social-Democratic workers of Germany are being drawn into the Struggle against Fascism. That is why the Second International opened fire against the Communists, simul- taneously giving itself “a free hand.” The Social Democratic parties cling frantically to a united front with the capitalists, splitting the working class and remaining the main social support of the capitalist dictatorship. When the representatives of the “Independent Workirg Party” repeat their ridiculous offer that the Com- intern should negotiate with Wels, ° Bauer, Vandervelde, about the means of fighting Fascism, the Communist Parties can answer in the words of the statement of the Comintern of March 5 that the Communists have proved by many years of struggle that they are in the front ranks in the struggle for a united front, Ford, General Motors, American Bankers Are Among Heavy Supporters of German Fascism; German Princes Act as U. S. Agents Editor’s Note:—The contributions to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party by Am- erican financiers and industrialists are described in the following -ex- cerpts from “Hitler as Franken+ stein,” a book written by “Johan- nes Steel.” “Johannes Steel” is the pen-name of a man who was for several years the secretary of a high official of the German Nazi party. For obyi- ous reasons his real identity is care- fully hidden, His book is pub- lished in England, and in several countries of Europe. By JOHANNES STEEL The American agents who worked under the supervision of Dr, Hjalmar Schacht (now president of the Reichsbank) were told to explain how National Socialism under would bring prosperity back to Ger- many, and how the return of, pros- Perity implied protection of the large sums invested by Americans in Ger- man enterprises, the thawing of frozen capital. In brief, their mis« sion was to present Hitler to Amer- ican financiers and captains of in- dustry as having been sent by pro- vidence to relieve capitalism of very uncomfortable burdens. These arguments evidently went home to the extent of several mil- lion dollars. One famous issuing house gave fifty thousand dollars in three installment§ respectively of five thousand, ten thousand and thir- ty-five thousand dollars, nti ‘The Morgan Bank gave fifty thou- sand dollars once and thirty-five thousand dollars at another time. (J. P. Morgan in London last week denied having contributed to Hitler— Ed.) Another issuing-house, at the instigation of Ivar Krueger, also contributed generously. An American National Bank whose president made frequent trips to Berlin, followed suit. Most of the cheques were drawn on other banks. When the contributions were in cash, they were invariably sent on to Dr. Schacht by registered mail and he attended to the transfers. General Motors Largest Contributor The largest individual contribution coming from America was not from a bank, but came from General Motors, In 1928, this corporation be- gan to negotiate the purchase of the Opel Automobile concern in Germany. When the deal was concluded (in such a way that a large amount of the taxation due was evaded), Amer- ican executives took charge of the organization, It was natural that General Motors should be interested in the Hitlerite movement. The assistance of the American corporation was solicited in the United States and it was furnish- ed from the American offices of the General Motors Acceptance Corpor- ation. Mr. R. was in charge of the transaction, after which he was sent to Germany, where he was in fre- quent contact with Dr. Schacht. In all, General Motors contributed two hundred thousand dollars. Hitler’s- most important ~ business connection in the United States, how- ever, was that with Henry Ford. The first link between Ford and Hitler dates back to the days when the au- tomobile manufacturer's “Dearborn Independent” lambasted the Jews week after week. After the famous libel suit brought in Chicago and the subsequent cessation of publication of the “Independent,” Ford entered into conversation .with the publishers of Hitler's party literature, the firm of Fr. Eher Nachfolger in Munich. Ford’s proposition was that they should reprint in the form of pamph- lets a selection of articles from the “Independent,” translated into Ger- man, of course. He gave express per- mission for the joint use of the names Ford and Hitler in advertising the pamphlets and he furnished the funds for the campaign. Ford Anti-Semitism in Germany Henry Ford’s offer was accepted with glee, It came at a psychological moment. The Nazi movement was still young, still ‘provincial’ in the sense that little attention was yet paid to it outside Bavaria; it was re- garded more as a curiosity than a potentiality. Hitler felt that with adequate advertising, the pamphlets would circulate throughout Germany and provide very welcome publicity. Fr. Eher Nachfolger received a cheque for forty thousand dollars to| yore . ‘This cheque represents the first financial sup- port of Adolf Hitler by Henry Ford. A few years passed, and the Hitler movement, steadily gathering new|try and followers, was still being watched by Henry Ford, Then in 1929 the world Mepiaings Prince Ferdinand of Prus- had taken up a post in the engi- neering department of the Ford works in Detroit. Prince As Nazi Agent. Today the intimate relations be- tween the members of the ex-Kaiser’s family and the Nazi leaders are a matter of common knowledge. Prince August Wilhelm, for one, is an active member of the organization, while many people look upon Hohenzollern and Nazi as synonymous terms.’ Prince Ferdinand was the link bring- ing Ford and Hitler into contact again. When I met the young Princes at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, and was introduced to their particular circles, our conversation occasionally turned on Henry Ford, and the fact was impressed upon me that so far as “selling Hitler” was concerned, De- troit was @ special territory of Prince Ferdinand, It should be remembered in this connection that since the in- cident of the Munich pamphlets, Ford factories had been set up in Germany. I gathered from these conversations that the “sales talk” was much the same whether coming from the grandson of the fallen war lord, or from paid agents. In De- troit, Ferdinand Hohenzollern used ntribute Millions to War Chest of German Nazis % U. 8. Sources of Hitler Finances Exposed by Former Secretary of High Nazi Official— Gave Money to Fight Communism trade unions calling a strike in the German Ford plant any time they wished. $300,000 from Ford. ‘To the world in general it was said that Prince Ferdinand proved such @ valuable asset in the Detroit works that he deserved a large salary, with important bonuses for “expert engi- neering services”. Ford valued the services rendered to him by the charming Prussian Prince at three hundred thousand dollars. This money “crossed the ocean mostly in the form of notes and found its way,| into the Nazi party chest through the intermediary of “Auwi” other-. wise Prince August Wilhelm,. Nazi deputy in the Prussian diet, officer on the general staff of Hitler's Storm Troops and intimate friend of Joseph Goebbels, head of the Nazi Propa- ganda ce ed now Reich Minister of la. There is one thing about Prince Ferdinand’s “engineering career” that T have never been able to elucidate— why did he enter the United States otherwise than under the quota, see-_ ing that he came ostensibly as a worker? Play Social Racket. When I visited Chicago I saw thi two princes working tea parties, gin parties, the whole gamut of the “so- cial racket”. I could see thet certain- ly they were having a good time. a, did not conceal the fact that we all who wanted to help the cause ere welcome, neither did they hesi- tate to let people know that supplied with contributions whic? reached their eventual destination in Germany through the medium of three or four different banks. German Americans in New York and Milwaukee, who were in sym- pathy with the idea of fascism, and remembered a powerful pre-war mo- narchistic Germany, contributed. A German-American brewer in Ne' York who was one of the most suc: cessful bootleggers between 1926 ani 1931, paid one hundred thousand dol: lars into the treasury of the party when he heard that the mass of the Nazis were recruited from the im- poyerished bourgeois class which ig anti-revolutionary, and that the pur- pose of these Nazis was to arrest ie march of socialism, to repress Communism and to oppose workings. class legislation. .., Italian-Americans Contribute. ‘Italians in America who were flate tered by the apparent similarity of the German and Italian idea, were eSpecially generous. I recall particue larly Mrs. Julia Morosini, of Rivers dale-on-the-Hudson, whose father came to America when Garibaldi’s legions were disbanded. She helped the Nazi cause on several occast At the end of 1929, the N¢% opened an office in N. Y., the being to prove to contributors thi good use was being made of their money, as this local office did a good deal of soliciting among small people ith German connections. But the ors of this branch had nothing + & bank-| to do with “big game”, with the fle and busin