The most important development in Nazified Germany today is the growing economic tenseness, Prof. Selig Perlman, University of Wisconsin authority on world labor problems, declared here.
German fascists will attempt to solve their present gnawing economic problems by confusing the issues in intensifying their anti-Semitic program, Prof. Perlman asserted.
Recent elections by factory workers of labor representatives showed the government candidates overwhelmingly defeated. Prof. Perlman said, which indicates a definite reaction against the Fascist labor program. Work has been spread among the workers and adequate relief has been provided for the starving, but wages have been cut and German labor is becoming more and more discontented with things as they are. A series of steps to the left is the only thing which can save Hitler even temporarily, the Wisconsin labor authority said.
These steps will doubtless consist of appealing to the lowest passions, including an intensification of anti-Jewish propaganda. The present despotic from of German government has discarded all the canons of civilized life, Dr. Perlman continued, and may hence continue somewhat longer in power than if it enforced upon itself the restrictions of civilized governments.
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