PAGE EIGHT THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Eastern Jewish Workers in Germany BY DR. ISRAEL TAUBES THE ANTI-SEMITIC MOVEMENT IN GERMANY BERL1N--flow rapidly the anti- Even during the war, when Ger- the Peace Treaty and haughty Ger- Semitic movement is making progress many was still dreamng her sweet many bit the dust. "Who brought in Germany may be inferred from the dreams of victory and of domination all these catastrophes upon us? Who following examples: in eastern Europe and in her proc- is revolts ble for our abject hmil- In a letter to the newspapers a lamations promised the golden fleece iationf" the people ask, and the anti- Jewish young man of Breslau stated itself to the freed Polish Jews," she Semites point to the Jew. He is that he saw many proclamations brought thirty thousand eastern Jew- responsible for everything." Nisi even pasted on the walls of the city iiwit- ish workers into the country to work the Socialists have escaped the gen- ing the people to pogroms. When he bee war industries. The lot of the oral poisoning, for example: The . tore down a number of tiles posters workers in the subjugated territories, Socialists newspaper, "Der Arbeiter' he was immediately arrested by a sol- the brutality which greeted them at to show that the Jews are contusions- dier and taken to a military office. every step, the enforced servitude tic, because they hope thru a period Here several soldiers beat him, threw without sufficient food. water and of chaos to become the leader of hu- him to the ground and kicked him clothing, and the terrible punishments inanity, and to establish their own with their feet. Thep he was bodily meted out to those who dared coot- rule, i. e. the ride of international thrown out into the street. plain, arc among the most revolting Judaism. So the Jews live today in Other newspapers hear the infor- of the Junker atrocities in the late blackest fear, because they are not mation that a Jewish merchant, of World War. Of the labor companies certain of tomorrow. ' Berlin, while travelling home from VI boundaries o f th ' " ester " e """ - ICologne, was arrested at a railroad sent into Lithuania and the neighbor- ing provinces ninny died from hun- tries arc zealously guarded. Alld oors station when a soldier pointed at him ger, many froze to death and not a are looked. Yet instead ot staring at std cr i : ed ()Ili, "Here is a Jew" He few were lost in the bewilderng for- death in the east, or of becoming Pol- was sent to Ntitnster, hut his family ish soldiers and watch with bleed• discovered his whereabouts through ests. The introduction of eastern Jewish ing hearts the punctual and orderly fellow travellers and succeeded in labor into Germany created a com- massacre of their brethern, the Jew- having ll'in relea,•d. The oflicer who plex problem both for them and fur ish youths are striving with all their arrested him stated that he (lid so, the German workers. Needless to might to reach Germany. And so bee allSe a woman who travelled in say, the native workers hardly looked hundreds of young Jews, ragged and the same compartment is said to have upon their immigrant competitors destitute. between the ages of 18 and heard the Jewish merchant boast of 25 may he found in the principal in. being a friend of Radek, the 1101- with favor. dustrial center, .erking work. All inv estigation shevist leader. A new class of Jewish workers was The situation may turn the most brought out the fact that there were in the process of development, the con firmed opt mist toward pessins no women in the compartment in hard, muscular toiler in the funda- mental industries. Heretofore, the ism. The German authorities place w hi c h th e J ew was t rave lling. In Hamburg notice: posted on the belief had been prevalent that the all sorts of dffilculties in the way. Nor :a rm th a t , • e wo rk e r, have all Jews only enter in the last stages of are the German Jew s any WO frietolly. The wretched Jews have left one sold the Insets es to the Jews. belief had been prevalent that the Jew Anti-Se:11'G, of Dnishitris charged economist, Margulin, in his "The hales to find themsches in another. J ew , o f th a t city with ke e ping Economic Status of the Working Clas- Germany drives them out to Poland ses of Russia," pointed out that in and L'Israinia; these send them back , concealed weapons. A thorough in- the preliminary stages of production, to Germany. But life stands above est igation sow , proved the accusa- i. e. the raising or preparation of the all man-made laws. I he primeval tion to he absolutely false. anti-Jewish agitator, Duringer, raw material, no Jews, or very few of right to lice will not be denied by them, at least, are employed. As the any theories or legal paragraphs. was the author of a report that the \\*Idle their future will not be mother of the short sighted Premier productive series advances their pro- there are at present a glat Kapp portion increases and is greatest in have la ‘f the handling of the completed article. number of eastern Jews' in Germany this 11‘:: a e'st.o.fritftlen's c'outli 'lld ifincoatu ste The Jew was supposed to be too in- who will rentain in the country, lie been successful. This statement was cause they have no other place to the worthy madam a lie. since simply dividualistic to wish to subject him- self to mass discipline. to become a go. Lately, the German Jewish soci- was the daughter of a Prussian gen- mere cog in the wheel of a ma cline. eties base become more sympathetic eral. But during the war. howeser, the toward the refugees, fur they have eastern Jew entered the incipient pro- come to the realtzaton that it is tun cesses of industry. Ile became a politically wise to treat them apath- builder of railroads, a honer jack, an etically. And the decree of the for- mer Prussian Minister Heine states agricultural worker etc. if eastern Jewish specifically p that PARIS—Polish Jewry is again be- But the Jew's individualism is bound s orkin of , conservative ry political w' ne to come out even in the machine shop views do conic into the country they inis subiected to outrage, plunder and murder, according to telegraphic im and factory. He is not contented with reman and work. formation lust received. The Jews of being a mere blind mechanical in- may During the last six months Jewish \Varsaw are again panic-stricken. At strument, but seeks to stamp his per- sonality upon his work. He turns to employment bureaus have been vitals- the Alexandrovo railroad depot Jews his spiritual life, to his culture to fished in the larger centers in order were cruelly tortured. Alter Pianitza compensate him for the grinding to provide these Jewish workers with and his two daughters were serenely monotony of his toil. And so, as 4vork and systemat cally insert them wounded. Zvi Oherstein had an ear soon as the eastern Jew reached Ger- in the German economic organization. cut off after his possessions, including many,—a land so high in civilization, 'flue cities of Berlin. Stutgart, Co- two thousand marks, were taken from and yet so low- in culture—he craved logne, Mon eh, Duisherg and Konigs- him. Numbers of others were at- for the cultural institutions which he berg have aiten thousands of rein- tacked. and Me Jews are known to left behind him and strove to satisfy gees employment. In Berlin and be seriously wounded or crippled. Iris intellectual needs in the new home. Duisberg. where Central Committees Serious outrages are reported from With Germany's downfall came the of the Jewish workers of \Vestphalia All hope that it would are located, living quarters and k.teli- Lovitell. In a telegram received by the Je•- revolution. What vain en: for the incotning workers are ish National Council of Krakow, it also bring freedom. dreams! Perhaps it was even better soon to be established. The skilled is stated that in Krakow-, Skarshika, for all and particularly for the Jews workers are being brought into the Lemberg and Gradeck, the situation when militarism ruled with an 'r rat small cities. and the unskilled receive is again serious. The Jewish popula- fist and allowed no one to rase his agricultural work. It is encouraging tints are again subject to all the int- head. But the present, the uncertain. to read of the praise which the land- , possible forms of previous persecu- ty of life itself. the constant dread holders bestow upon the Jewish worts- tions. of what may come, the daily perse- men for their power of adaptation, The Warsaw telephone company diligence and intelligence. They are removed the telephone from the ' cutions—what could be worse? ,,, 0 . The German people is now living constantly demanding more. The rr•00 t Zedergreen, one of its 1.1. i It is workmen's colony i -n Je-scusee thru the most decisive crisis. is subscribers, because he was overheard into now struggling with death, because re'rittg Y" tm g Eastern Jews to have used Yiddish over the wire. ..it has been condemned to die. Ilas strong, vigorous laborers. So it is the German people learned very much well with the F.astern Jew if he finds \ drive was recently organized to front the war and the revolution? employment and can support himself, raise the membership of the B'itai It i s now but is he always successful .iti his Writ], Lodge at I.os Angeles. Cal., to That is difficult to say. t „leading a very abnormal life, is dis- quest for work? At every lierman the I.000 mark, and it has been ac- . railroad station and in all smaller , •complished. At present the member- and drowning its .spirit in hate and cheap hotels may . be found many ship numbers 1.002. in dreams of revenge. Like a deadly Jewish workers without and visible cancer this hate has gripped the G er . means of support. They travel on man void, ingrowing deeper and from city to city hoping to find bet- Day by Day the "Standard Plan" Increases The in POLAND AGAIN CENTER OF JEWISH ATROCITIES Day by Day as knowledge of the STANDARD PLAN spreads, the popular- ity and usefulness of this modern system grows. Favor Already hundreds of homes have been furnished on this simple system. By means of it you can secure the very finest furniture that is produced in America on the most dignified basis. When you buy on the STANDARD PLAN" you have 30 weeks to pay—no interest charges—no investigation charges—no inves- tigation fee—and the prices are just the same as if you paid cash. Continuing Our Great 20% OFF Sale of Fine Furniture CLASSIFIED deeper until it now dominates all feel- ter luck. DO YOU ‘VISIf to start your To aid these people to foul their child in music, but dread the long ing and directs all thoughts. So it is a relief to find a group of people, place in t he Gertnan economic Ife is period of - beginning to play'" My driven and pursued everywhere, he- a most difficult task, the holy (hits new method delights both * the par. YOnd the pale of all law and human of all Jews who are an xious to avoid ruts and the pupils with its results. consideration, upon whom to pour an Eastern Jewish catastrophe in Ger- A child of ordinary ability can play out its self consuming bitterness. A many. third-grade music correctly in a short time. See Miss Cecil Hodges, 79 scapegoat for the whole calamity of East \Varren. Sorthway 1122. Germany is sought, and who is it The Joint Distribution Committee that is found „The Jew. The Jew brought on the World War thru his announced appropr , ations last week W E are offering—in line with the spirit of the day—a gen- eral discount of 20 per cent on our entire stock, with the exception of rugs and baby carriages. Included in the event are the products of such famous makers as Karpen Brothers, Berkey & Gay, Sligh, Luce, etc. Purchases made at sale prices may be bought on the "STANDARD PLAN." BUICK-1917—Light Six. capitalism; he incited many countries totaling $1,622,500 for use in Poland, against Germany; he agitated in the Siberia, Roumania, Palestine, Hun- i trenches, on the battlefield, in the gary and Czecho-Slovakia and in camps to revolutionize the soldier:. Paris for the aid of emigrants on t ii 1Villielm abdicated. Germany's midi- way to America who are stranded ary might was broken. Finally came there. LARGE. LIGHT ROOM to rant for re- lined young man. Private family. S's Erskine. In fine shape, 6 good tires-- $1,000 cash. Earl L. Bezenah, 418 Sixth St. Glendale 5020. 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