FOUR-YEAR PLAN FOR GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 185, 3 May 1933, Page 9

FOUR-YEAR PLAN FOR GERMANY

Herr Hitler’s Dramatic May Day Announcement NATIONAL UNITY BY FORCE, IF NECESSARY Compulsory Labour Scheme: Idealism of the Worker EMOTIONAL OUTBURST AGAINST ‘WORLD PERSECUTION’ By Telegraph —Press Assn. —Copyright. (Received May 2, 7 p.m.) Berlin, May 2. “The Nazis desire to unite the people. If they won’t get together we will have to force them. The nation must recognise the idealism of the worker, who alone enables the nation to live, said Heir Hitlei, speaking at the May Day demonstration at Berlin. . Herr Hitler appealed for national unity and the abandonment ot class prejudices. „ , <- r He outlined the objectives for the first year of a fouryear plan, consisting of a reduction of the number of unemployed by public and private initiative, house repairs, and road building by compulsory labour, which, he said, was not an attack on the proletariat but essential to extirpate class prejudices. • . f i Consequently every young German must serve a period ot manual labour, thus enabling the people to understand each other. “Compulsory labour will teach the people that manual work is no shame, „ne said. “On the contrary, it honours those performing it faithfully. Herr Hitler concluded with an emotional outburst against world persecution” of a nation which “must retort, whatever the world does, ‘We will never bow our heads.’ “The call for equality will never cease. Germany is not a second-class nation, even if the world says so a thousand times.” A gigantic fireworks display followed the speech, including a representation of two hands j’oined in the grip of friendship, inscribed in letters of fire: “This is the day of national labour.” The display ended with a bombardment of fire shells and a salvo of 60,000 “bombs.” * »

Berlin’s programme, which extended from early morning until midnight, began with a demonstration of a hundred thousand youths and schoolchildren before President Hindenburg and Herr Hitler in front of the ex-Kaiser’s palace. Later ten vast processions, some exceeding 120,000 in number, began to converge through streets decorated by millions of Nazi and Nationalist flags on the Templehof aerodrome, where Herr Hitler addressed the throng by means of a hundred loudspeakers. The workers were paid for tlie holiday instead of celebrating at their own expense. Dr. Goebels paid a tribute to the youth movement as a. cornerstone of (lie new Germany. The movement had freed German labour from international money chains. The speaker declared that the barriers of class hatred had -been torn down and a brotherhood of the people had arisen. Germany had lost the war, but had won the revolution. A SOVIET COUNTER Hitler Broadcast “Jammed” RED TALKS IN GERMAN (Received May 2, 7 p.m.) Berlin. May 2. Tlie Soviet’s new live hundred kilowatt broadcast station at Moscow. transmitting revolutionary talks in German, seriously jammed Herr Hitler’s broadcast. MOSCOW CELEBRATES Tramp of Feet in Red Square TANKS AND AEROPLANES London, May 2. In Moscow May Day was celebrated with customary importance. Twenty-live thousand troops were deployed in the streets surrounding Red Square, which was dominated by huge portraits of Lenin and Stalin, which were reproduced everywhere on a smaller scale. Stalin from Lenin’s tomb watched the troops march past accompanied by 1000 tanks with 350 aeroplanes overhead. British Embassy officials were the only foreign representatives absent, but it was noticeable that no anti-British slogans were displayed. While Berlin was echoing to the tramp of marching men, over a million participated in the parade in Red Square. Moscow. Tlie workers began assembling at dawn. Endless columns of men, women, and children, led by 25,000 picked troops, started to pass Lenin's tomb nt 10 o’clock, and the rearguard did not cross the square until 5 iu the evening. Moscow was decorated witli posters, many urging preparedness for war “which is just around tlie corner.”

PROCESSION IN LONDON Official Wireless. Rugby, May 1. London hi'A its usual May Day celebrations Winn a long procession assembled on the Embankment, and, led by small contingents of police, marched to Hyde Park for the customary demonstration. The event passed off without any disorder or excitement. Oxford students marched the streets shouting “We won’t fight.” Two thousand unemployed at Glasgow had a conflict with tlie police and disorganised traffic. HOLIDAY IN PARIS Day Generally Peaceful London. May 1. Paris streets wore a holiday air. A big Labour meeting in the Bois de Vincennes resembled a picnic, contrasting with the militaristic Russian and German celebrations. Five thousand workers downed tools in Paris, and dockers took a holiday at Havre and Brest. The public services were interrupted. Peaceful demonstrations took place elsewhere in Europe. At Vienna the authorities ensured the substitution of a peaceful stroll for the customary Socialist parade by training guns on the streets and blocking the main thoroughfare with barbed wire entanglements. t Public services at Madrid were paralysed. Banks, offices, and shops were closed, and traffic was suspended, but the day was peaceful. BOMBS IN CHICAGO America Otherwise Quiet (Received May 2, 7.30 p.m.) New York, -May 2. Communists and other radicals throughout the Western Hemisphere celebrated May Day in the traditional manner by holding mass meetings and making speeches. Tlie proceedings were unusually free of violence, but tlie day was greeted at Chicago by a series of live bombings in mid-city areas. About 150.000 dollars of damage was dohe. mainly smashed windows. There were no casualties. CANADIAN OBSERVATION Vancouver, May 1. May Day throughout Canada was marked by rigid police restrictions with few arrests and little disorder Parade permits were refused at Saskatoon, Regina. Calgary, and Vancouver. At Moose Jaw the police raided .the quarters of Communists, arresting eight and seizing literature.