26th May 1933
News in Brief - Battle Unions

'Battle Unions'

I receive continued reports that groups of Party comrades and persons associated with the Party, have formed themselves into 'Battle Unions' in order to undertake wild interference in business. The Party membership and all Party bureaus of the N.S.D.A.P., repudiate these happenings with all decisiveness. They realise that the restoration of healthy conditions in German economy and the re-employment of many millions of unemployed men is not advanced but is hindered by these senseless acts of objectionable self-interested policy. I order, therefore, that all 'Battle Unions' which have been formed in the economic field must forthwith be dissolved, regardless of the names by which they are called. I request, in consequence, all Party bureaus to deliver to the courts persons who henceforth set themselves up as commissars, without having been called to the position by the administration or by a public authority.

Source: Voelkischer Beobachter, 26th May 1933 (as presented in Hoover, 1933)

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