GIGANTIC DRIVE

Northern Advocate, 22 March 1934, Page 6

GIGANTIC DRIVE

AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT GERMANY’S PLAN. : HUGE SUMS ALLOCATED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received 11 a.m.) MUNICH, March 21. The Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, inaugurated the second year of the gigantic drive against unemployment with a speech from a motor lorry, on the new road to Austria, through the Black Forest. Herr Hitler and members of the Cabinet were present, and there were thousands of Avorkmeu currying spades. Dr. Goebbels said that 2,700,000 people had been given work last year. His speech was broadcast to every village, where Avorkmen Avere assembled by order, and all work stopped for an hour and a half, for Avliich the men were not paid. They must make up their wages by overtime. Herr Hitler announced that he would allot the equivalent of about £77,000,000 to provide work for unemployed. He emphasised the Government’s determination to maintain the stability of the mark, and mercilessly to tlnvart any attempt to raise prices for any IndiA’idual purposes. He intended to secure the marriage of at. least 300,000 girls, appropriating £12,000,000 in matrimonial loans. Road building Avould absorb £46,300,000 of the £77,000,000. The public works scheme Avould uot be financed by inflation, but by the ordinary budget. Business Avould be freed of theories and hampering legislation, and Government aid would be extended only to encourage productivity. ■ There would be no presents to industry. The dishonest, indolent, and unintelligent industrialist would perish. Germany desired nothing except to continue in freedom and peace to the creation of a better AA r orld. Dr. Goebbels, in an address to the Nazi leaders, said that the strength of the Nazi movement lay in its obstinacy and imdncible objection to admit that, there might be lavo points of view on any subject. Germany boav possessed the noblest form of European democracy, under which the people gave a feAV men the right to demand, but reserved the right to criticise their conduct al elections.