NEW NAZI LAWS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1933, Page 5

NEW NAZI LAWS

LABOUR TRUSTEES ■

WAGE SCHEDULE REGULATIONS

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BERLIN, May 20

'* The German Cabinet has promulgated several new Jaws. One ci'e..tes “trustees of labour,” who are *to act (until trade unions and employers’ organisations ar e .incorporated in tba proposed State system.

The new law abolishes collective bargaining. .It empowers the trustees dictator ially to regulate the wageschedules.

Another, law aims at the protection of national symbols. It prohibits the manufacture or marketing of articles displaying symbols offending national sentiment.

POLICE DRIVE ON PACIFISTS

ESCAPE OF A PRINCESS

MUNICH, May 19,

In pursuance of the Government drive .against- the remnants of organised pacifism, the police on May 17th, while . Her ; r Hitler was speaking in the Reichstag, visited one hundred societies, (including the world peace union, and the mothers’ and te'chers 1 union, and dissolved them, confiscating their property. princesg Juliane Zu Strollbergwernlgerode, a member of the union, escaped. Her colleague, Ena Macherlsaner, wa s arrested at the Princess’ flat, which the police closed apd sealed.

POLICE RAID IN UNDERWORLD

SIX HUNDRED PRISONERS

BERLIN, May 20. The Berlin police took six hundred prisoners in a remarkable raid in ~u

area known ,as “The Mint,” a notorious haunt of thieves and receivers. On previous, occasions the bulk of its frequenters escaped, but this .time the whole population were trapped. Extraordinary scenes followed. Men and women were flinging valuable stolen articles Into the streets, an» were hurling packets of pawn tickecs from their windows. ,/.

CLOSING OF MUNICH SHOPS

MUNICH, May 20

Assisted by Biown .Shirts, th e police visited provision shops and posted notices ais follows : “Closed owing to extortionate prices ! Owners in concentration camp at iJochan.”

GERMAN. WARNING TO AUSTRIA'-

BERLIN, May 20

Herr Franck (German Cabinet Minister). warned Austria that Germany will not. .tolerate . th e suppression ’ .of •Nazis university students in’ Austria, who have pledged . themselves to promote t.he Anschluss. It is announced that Prince Philhp of Hesse, son-in-law of the. King of Italy, has hcen. appointed President of the Upper Province, Hesseiiassau.

CAPTAIN GOERING AT ROME,

FRANCE MAY JOIN PARLEY

LONDON; May 20.

Captain Gearing. of the German Ministry, arrived at, Rome by air on the eve of a meeting of the Fascists

grand council. Rumours have been revived of aai impending visit there by Herr Hitler to confer with Signor Mussolini. It is even suggested that M. Daladier, French Premier, may come there to confer with both.

PETITION TO THE LEAGUE.

TREATMENT OF MINORITIES

(Received Mav 22 at 10.0 a.m.) GENEVA, May 21

Fnanz Burnham, late of Gleivitz in Upper 'Silesia, who states that he was dismissed from his employment in a German emporium because he was a .Jew, arrived with a petition to the League, stressing that Germany, when sh. 3 secured special treatment of her minorities in Poland, Czecho Slovakia, and elsewhere, undertook to extend the same treatment to foreign minorities established in Germany.