Anti-semitism Interrupts Local Hitlerite Meeting for Second Time

For the second time within a week New York Hitleries turned a meeting into a near riot through their anti-Semitic agitation. Stormy scenes broke out Wednesday evening at the New York “Labor Sport Club Fishte”, where a debate was held between Hitlerites and Communists on the theme “What Brings Freedom to the German Workingman in the Present Economic Crisis-National Socialism (Hitlerism) or Communism?”.

A tense atmosphere prevailed during the meeting among the followers of both parties, and a storm of protest broke out when the Hitlerite speaker declared that “Jews are responsible for the present suffering of the German people”.

The first speaker was the New York Communist leader Max Bedacht. While outlining his principles the speaker also referred to the anti-Semitic plank of the Hitlerite program, and said that anti-Semitism has long been described as “the Socialism of the fools”.

The representative of the Hitlerites was the New York Chairman of the National Socialist party, Mr. Manger. Although at the beginning of his speech, Mr. Manger promised not to revert to the Jewish question, in short order he gave vent to an anti-Jewish attack blaming the Jews as responsible for the troubles of the German nation. “Germany is now in such a desperate state because the international Jewish financiers caused the Germans to lose the War. We must keep the German race clean of Jewish blood and we must eliminate the Jewish influence from Germanism”, Mr. Manger declared.

The anti-Jewish agitation of the Hitlerite speaker aroused protests and laughter on the part of the majority of the meeting. The speech of the Nazi representative was continuously interrupted. When he concluded he left the platform and together with a small group of his followers he departed from the hall before the meeting was over. The large audience which remained ridiculed the fleeing Hitlerites.