"The funds of the unions... were confiscated. Some leaders were killed, often after... revoltingly brutal torture, and others were thrown into prison or condemned to... the concentration camps... These... people... were not punished for any specific offence—they had violated no laws, they had committed no crime. Their only offence... to represent the interests of their fellow trade unionists, to maintain... standards of wages and conditions and to better them. They were not "Reds," for the most part... just... ordinary trade unionists. But they represented the... view of the workers, and... in the eyes of the fascists... [were] obedient flunkeys of the employers... [a] sufficient crime."
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Fascism—Fight it Now
Fascism—Fight it Now (January, 1937) with a forward by , General Secretary, (NUR) and J. C. Little, President, Almagamated Engineering Union (AEU), was a pamphlet prepared for the , London, England. Its readership was hoped to be "those who have attained manhood and womanhood since 1914. ...YET TO MAKE THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE MARCH TOWARD FREEDOM AND EMANCIPATION OF THE WORKING CLASS... their young lives ...overshadowed by the Great War and its terrible aftermath." It argued that "the better c
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