Luring Workers to Germany

Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 307, 16 December 1940, Page 2

Luring Workers to Germany

FAMILIAR NAZI TECHNIQUE (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Dec. 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 Hagens Nyheter reported on November 28 that Norwegian workers who recently returned from Germany were visiting labour centres distributing reports of the good position of Genum workers and on December 3 the same newspaper announced that 5000 Norwegian. workers will leave for Germany in January. Outspoken Dutchmen who display no enthusiasm for German labour con ditions were warned against expressing their views in the Zeesea radio, which cited a report in the Deutsche Zeitung that a Dutch worker returning from a job in Germany who incited his fellow workers not to take jobs in Germany was sentenced to eight months ’ penal servitude. The Danes are becoming concerned at. the way the German labour drive is draining their country of manpower and the Danish paper National Tidende deplores the real loss to Denmark entailed in the proposed employment of a further 5000 Danes in Germany. A striking example of the Nazi method of using the i ostensibly still free institutions of a subjugated State oocured at the annual meeting of the Danish unemployment insurance societies when the director (Herr Vator) reported thut the authorities complained that Danish workers’ insurance societies paid unemployment relief to workers who quitted work in Germany or failod to return after their leave in Denmark. The central organisation for unemployment, insurance was therefore compelled to draw attention to orders that such payment cannot be made. Danish workers quitting work in Germany of their own volition lose the benefits against contributions already paid in unemployment insurance in Denmark. I