GERMAN CONDITIONS

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18951, 22 May 1933, Page 7

GERMAN CONDITIONS

NEW LAWS PROMULGATED.

RAID ON THIEVES’ QUARTERS,

EXTRAORDINARY SCENES,

United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. BERLIN, May 20. The German Cabinet 'has promulgated several new laws. One oreates "trustees of labour," who will act until the trades unions and employers’ organisations are incorporates in the proposed State system. The law abolishes collective bargaining and empowers the trustees dlctatorlally to regulate wage schedules.

Another law alms at the protection of national symbols. It prohibits the manufacture or marketing of articles, or the display of symbols, whic'h offend national sentiment.

The police to-day took '6OO prisoners in a remarkable raid in the area known as the Mint, a notorious haunt of thieves and receivers. On previous occasions most of the frequenters of the area have escaped, but this time the entire population was trapped. Extraordinary scenes followed the raid. Men and women flung valuable stolen articles into the streets and 'hurled packets of pawn tickets from windows.

Assisted by Brown Shirts the police visited provisions shops in Munich and posted notices saying: “Closed owing to extortionate prloes.” The owners of the shops are in a concentration camp at Dachan.

100 SOCIETIES DISSOLVED.

PROPERTY CONFISCATED. ESCAPE OF A' PRINCESS. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. MUNICH, May 19. • In pursuance of the Government's drive against the remnants af organised pacifism, the police on May 17, while Ilerr Hitler was speaking in the Reichstag, visited one hundred societies, including the World Peace Union and the Mothers and Teachers’ Union, and dissolved them, confiscating their property. Princess Juliane of Stolberg, a member of the union, esoaped. A colleague, Fraulein Ena Machensauer,' was arrested at the Princess’ flat, which the police closed and sealed.

LATER.

DEALING WITH PROFITEERS. BAVARIAN POLICE ACTIVE. MANY ARRESTS MADE.

United Press Assn. —-Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received, May 22,' IGJJS a.m.) 1 LONDON, May 21. The Times’ Munich correspondent states that following the Bavarian Government’s condemnation of numerous cases of alleged profiteering In agricultural products, especially butter, the police arrested 220 shopkeepers, Including 100 women, and posted placards on., their shops stating that the proprietor had been taken Into “preventive” custody owing t 6 profiteering.

ANTI HITLERISM. VOICED BY FRENCH LABOUR. TERRORISM AND BARBARISM. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel Copyright. (Received May 22, 10.35 a.m.) •PARIS, May 21. The Executive of the International Federation of Trade Unions, In a manifesto, protests against the unprecedented acts of terrorism and barbarism by Hitlerism, and urges the workers of all nations to realise the grave dangers to international labour, the world peace, and civilisation constituted by fantastic nationalism reaction, presumptuously represented by Italian and German Fascism as a new social order.