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and to send seeret agents who will have to infiltrate into these
groups for propaganda and spying purposese Such increasing
communistie interest proves the importance to be attached to
evolutions among expellees, especially also in view of their
influence in the forthcoming elections and ín the formation of a
possible new German goverrmment,
The economic interests
Beonomice interests - using the opportunities offered to
them in pre-election period, when their support is being solicited ¬
try to pmt pressure on the political parties from the outside and
to secure as many concessions as possible.
On the conservative side, these influences are mostly
those of great vocational and professional groups and syndicates,
who promise financial help to the governmental coalition, in case
their men are placed as candidates on the governmental list. In
order to avoid these pressures, Chancellor Adenauer has suggested
another solution, He proposed the creation of an economic Chamber
in the German Parliament - the "Bundeg-Wirtschafts- und Sozialrat" «
wheré all these interested economic groups could happily be represent
and work out their political ambitions, without interfering with the
membership of the House of Representatives, the "Bundestag",
More dangerous is the pressure that comes from the German
labor Union, the DGB (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund). After the War,
by allied ruling, only one official Union was allowed. It necessarily
developed into an administrative giant, a sort of monopoly, that in
the eyes of its officials became an ultimate aim in itself and a
weapon for securing political and economic power. This DGB has
followed a balancing politie between the goverrment and the socialist
partys going with the first as long as“ecould obtain all the coneessic
it desired; supporting the latter if it needed pressure on Bonn. At
present, the DGB is in a stage of opposition te the federal govern¬
ment and Parliaments; as Chancellor Adenauer, in order to safeguard
the govermmental coalition with the liberals, decided that he could w
make any further concessions to a Union that refused even the most
modern and far-reaching social legislation. The new industrial law
(the Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) proposed by the federak government,
promises to secure workers the largest rights of self~determination
and control in industries. However diseussion of that project came
at a time, when Christian Fette, the actual President of the DGB,
is coming up for re-election, He is thus looking for a propaganda nit
that would make him popular among Union employees. This is the deep
reason why he is opposing the goverrmental project. President Fette
eleims for additional seats in factory control and direction to be
given to Labor Union officials, to the detriment of local workers.
Hailed by the extreme Jeft press and the East Zone officials for its
opposition to Chancellor Adenauer, the DGB went so far as to declare
war on the goverrment and threaten with a chain of strikes, The
cessation of work in all the printing shops, following the signature
of the Bonn agreement was the first step. This unéonstitutional
pressure of a so-called non-political body, placed on Parliament and
government, has opened many eyes and created a strong reaction.
Numerous right and center politicians and many important professional
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