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Show Death to the Slave Who Shirks! THERE was a little item lit the newspaper the other day that may have escaped your notice. no-tice. It is particularly important to the working people of America. The item, from Berlin, Germany, said: "One person has been shot for refusing to do labor contributing to the state's security under new decrees." Another story told of arrest by the gestapo of many former trades union officials as a pre-, pre-, caution against any possible labor unrest or refusal to obey government orders for industrial indus-trial servitude. In addition there have been repeated reports of stringent regulations In Ceraiany of all labor, la-bor, limiting wages, denying the right of a . workerloqult hlsemplovrent, forcing hirn by threats of prison or deal to perform wnal aver services the government directs. The fact of the matter Is that in Germany today the working people are slaves, bound to the Iron wheel ot military conquest. They have no more rights and no much freedom as the negro slaves of the ld south. That such a actuation is a fundamental threat In any totalitarian state should be ob-, ob-, vlous to every American. The worker has now reached his final state of abject slavery In Germany, Ger-many, It Is Just about as bad in the totalitarian state of Russia. And in Italy, although the' situation sit-uation is nsf quite as bad today, the skids are greased trre tor the same status for the worker 1 the event of war. It is to be hoped the workers of America will psader the condition of their brothers In Germany and other totalitarian nations, and j resist every effort to transfer any such regime I azi, fascist or communist to this nation. . The record of these European dictatorial jeglmes proves conclusively that, no matter what their professed ideologies, they all lead In one direction slavery and subjugation of the nation's masses under the iron heel of the party bosses. |