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- page three present, the DP is trying to expand to the South of Germany and to builaPnew party headquarters and organizations. Only after having experienced the practical results of this new move, will the Party officially establish its common program and enter the electoral campaign that will fully open in autom, The sociali abo The dangerous line taken by the official German Labor Union, the DGB ("Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund"), in the recent German political evolution, has been explained already in the previous dispatch. The illegal and unconstitutional pressure, directed by Labor President Christian Fette against Chancellor Adenauer’s govern. ment is continuénge The federal Parliament, before starting summer vacations, passed - despite socialist and kwaxx%k labor threats, hinting at a general strike - the much discussed co-determination bill. A very social-minded law, it gives workers and employees representation in factory councils and in management policy boards. Workers, at a large, express satisfaction with the rights thus obtained. However, official Trade Unions, pushed by socialists and by the personal ambitions of President Christian Fette, have declared total war again: the new bill and its applicatione Their argument is the contention that the Labor Union as such is not granted sufficient representation and influence in factory managment and that, moreover, co-determinati should also be granted to public employees. The consequence generally expected to come out of that fighting attitude taken by Trade union leadership, is that the West German Labor Union is likely to split in the next future. The group around Christian Fette has openly declared war on Chancello Adenauer's government and has pledged its full support and that of its 6.5 million members to the Socialist Party in the forthcoming general elections, such support is likely to be expressed in a series of strikes, that might be expected for automne Important groups of labor however are deeply dissatisfied with the monopolistic and practically tyrannic attitude shown by Union leadership. The tradition of pxaxnazi Christian Labor Ynions - dating back to pre-mzi times - is not forgotten in Germany. These groups whole hearteldy suppyrt the present Bonn government and igs social policy. They oppose socialist influence and the strike waves, which they strongly feel, harms labor more than it fosters its aimse Symptomatic for the split that is preparing is for instance the deep difference in thinking and policies that is increasingly opposing two powerful labor elements: the metallurgical and the miners‘ unions (I.Geketall and IG Bergbau). The first one is entirely marxist in its leadership and propaganda: it constantly preaches class warfare, presents German labor as living in deepest misery and oppression and organizes one strike move after the other. The extremely interesting case of the Faulstroh company, a metallurgical factory in Gross-Gerau (Hesse) has been most revealing. wsast year, from the end of August until the middle of September, the workers of the St.
