Show Nazi Storm Troops Seize Trade Unions Occupy Headquarters Arrest and and Arrest Leaders L in Effort to Stamp Out Marxism By Lou LOUIS s P. P LOCHNER Associated Press Staff Writer BERLIN May 2 2 Chancellor 2 Hitler's by bys s surprise and s storm o m took the last hurdle today on the he road load to nazi domination of the labor laboz movement by occupying arters of ot the free e trade ii unions honn throughout 1 hout Germ Germany v cri which h have ve members were arrested The trade unions of ot the f future ture are arc areto areto to be majie nade e national ra rather t than t r international in in- in character nazi leaden said Having previously smashed the tle so so- democratic cial-democratic party party- the nazis realized realized real real- socialism's backbone the backbone the trade unions unions still still moved mentally in inide ide Ideology logy of Marxism even though leaders tried outwardly to swing them into line with the new concept of ol Germany In Berlin the nazi storm troops tr ops occupied the national headquarters of ot the unions and the gigantic building build build- ing lug of ot the metal workers' workers union Prominent federation leaders arrested arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested were vero President Theodor Leipart Leipart Leipart Lei Lei- part Vice President Peter Grassman and Rudolf Rudol former minister of ot labor Grassman figured prominently prominently prominently as labors labor's representative during during dur duro ing negotiations leading lending to adoption of the of-the the plan As Leipart and Grassman are both ill m they were were held in a hospital The social democratic party's few remaining r reichstag and Prussian diet members have been leading a shadowlike shadowlike shadow- shadow like tike existence totally tally devoid of the influence which vas was theirs when they belonged to to the dominant party in German Germany Th Their ir vast propaganda apparatus apparatus ap ap- including hundreds of newspapers newspapers news news- papers already has been outlawed A A. nazi said that Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many today entered upon the second sec sec- ond epoch of the of-the the national socialist revolution by freeing the worker from the last fetters of ot Marxism The nazis seized not only all free tree trade trad union headquarters but also labor banks and Marxist economic organizations especially consumers' consumers cooperatives whose vast network of stores and factories extends throughout through out the nation Furthermore all periodicals periodical of the Marxist trado do unions were suspended We knocked the chief weapon out of f the hands hanc of ot the Marxist riffraff the nazi said It Is bet bet- ier ter that men like and Grassman Grass Grass- man should be taken Into custody Ie Three months of ot nazi government proves to you OU worker that Hitler is your friend that Hitler wrestles with the problem of your freedom that Hitler supplies you with bread |