class war.
Marxism created the economic weapon, which the international Jew employs for destroying the economic basis of free and independent national States, for ruining their national industry and trade ; its object being to make free nations the slaves of the world finance of Jewry, which knows no State boundaries.
In the hands of the National Socialist Trades Union the strike is not an instrument for ruining the nation’s production, but for increasing it and causing it to flow, by fighting against all the faults, which, by their unsocial character, hinder efficiency in business and in the life of the whole nation.
The National Socialist worker must be aware that the nation’s prosperity means material happiness to himself.
The National Socialist employer must be aware that happiness and contentment for his workers is an essential for the existence and development of his own great business enterprise.
It is senseless to have a National Socialist Trades Union side by side with other Trades Unions. For it must be deeply convinced of the universality of its task and of the resulting obligation not to other institutions with similar and perhaps hostile aims, and be ready to proclaim its own essential individuality. There can be no compromising with cognate aspirations ; its absolute right to stand alone must be maintained.
There were, and are still, many arguments against founding Trades Unions of our own.
I have always refused to consider experiments which were bound to fail from the start. I should have considered it a crime to take from the worker a proportion of his hard-earned wages to pay for an institution which I was not thoroughly convinced would be of use to its members.