WORKERS FOR GERMANY

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 143, 13 December 1940, Page 7

WORKERS FOR GERMANY

LURES TO DANES AND NORWEGIANS - r, i DRAIN OF MAN-POWER (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 11. According to information reaching London, the Norwegians are the latest victims of the campaign to lure workers to Germany. In support of the campaign, the newspaper "Dagens Nyheter" reported on November 28 that Norwegian workers who had recently returned from Germany were visiting the labousr centres and distributing reports of the good position of the German workers, and on December 3'the same newspaper announced that 5000 Norwegian workers will leave for Germany in January. Outspoken Dutchimen who display j no enthusiasm for German labour con- j ditions were warned by the Zeesen radio against expressing their views. The radio cited a report in the "Deutsche Zeitung" " that a Dutch worker who, on returning from his job in Germany, had incited fellow-work-ers not to take jobs ;in Germany was sentenced to eight moinths' penal servitude. The Danes are becoming concerned at the way the German labour drive is draining their country of man-power, and the Danish pasper "National Tidende" deplores the real loss to Denmark entailed in the proposed employment of a iurther 5000E Danes in Germany in addition to tine Norwegians. A striking example; of the Nazi method of using the ostensibly still free institutions of a subjugated State occurred at the annu.nl meeting of Danish unemployment (insurance socities when the director, Mr. Vater, reported that the authorities had complained that Danish workers' insurance societies paid unemployment relief to workers who quitted their work in Germany or failed to return after their leave in Denmark. The central organisation for unemployment insurance was therefore compelled to draw attention to the orders that such payment cannot be made. Dandsh workers who quit their work in Germany of their own. volition lose the benefits against the contributions already paid in unemployment insurance in Denmark.