THE FRONT OF GERMAN WORKERS HAS BEEN ERECTED!
Page 1, Issue 382, 3 May 1933, of "NSK". National Socialist Party Press Agency, [NSK, Pressedienst der NSDAP—the official news agency of the NSDAP], Edited by Wilhelm Weiss. Responsible for communications of the Reich Press Office. Dr.
Otto Dietrich, Reich Press Chief. Published by Franz Eher Successor, Munich.
NSK. We have been informed by the leader of the Action Committee for the Protection of German Labor, Dr. Ley, that the following organizations have unconditionally subordinated themselves to the leadership of Adolf Hitler and the directives of the Action Committee for the Protection of German Labor: Central League of Christian Trade Unions [Gesamtverband der Christlichen Gewerkschaften] ; Trade Union Circle of Associations of German Employees, Workers and Civil Servants [Gewerkschaftsring deutscher Angestellten, Arbeiter und Beamtenverbaende] [Hirsch-Duncker] ; Trade Union League of Employees [GDA], the RDA; and other associations. Tomorrow negotiations will begin with the German National Clerks' League [DHV] as the last association. It is to be hoped that this organization, too, will discern the spirit of the times and integrate itself into the great undertaking.
For the first time in the German labor movement a concentration of all workers' and employees' associations would thus be reached and one of the greatest undertakings recorded in the history of the German working class brought to fruition.
We have been further informed by the leader of the Action Committee for the Protection of German Labor, Dr. Ley, that he intends now, after these associations have unconditionally and without reservation submitted to the NSDAP, to draft the positive and expert forces from these organizations for cooperation. This intention will already find expression at the great Workers' Congress, which will take place in Berlin next week.
News agency report on the subordination of several labor associations to Nazi control
Date: 03 May 1933
Literal Title: The Front of German Workers Has Been Erected!
Defendant: Robert Ley
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2225
Citation: IMT (page 255)
HLSL Item No.: 450398
Notes:The report was issued by the NSK, the Nazi press agency.