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itlerite Gieseking’s Visit Insults DeadThe A. B.C., which hired the Nazi pianist Walter Gieseking, the Menxiei Government which grouted hii visa, have Ifed the memory of all those who died at victims of Nazism.R£ is the record of Wolter Giesekmg, compiled by the y Council to Combot Fos-j and Anti-Semitism^ from American Military Govern-t records and reports in the ,York Times (8/2/48 and /49iWalter Gieseking: voluntarily|t: membership of the •'Kampf- ,11»r Deutsche Kultur. a Nazi fcura* organisation, in 1933. long ere was any pressure to Join N groups.H'* ilways ended his letter? with ] Hitier. long before this greeting uniformly adopted, ri.-^kng made his services * r. iliable to Goebbels during •a ii igainst democracy.He was widely used by Goebbels’ nula Ministry to spread Nazi in German-occupied coun-He played 31 times in France ;i Belgium. 6 times in Hun-,2 times in Rumania, twice in lt;ui i times in Czechoslovakia. 17 in Austria, 5 times in Alsace.34 times in Mussolini? Italy 7 imes in Turkey, when the Nazis led 'o keep Turkey out of the war. n many of these countries, men. iud children were being ship-,la vc labor and to Nazi gas-ANOTHER JAP T1CTORT'PRUSOADES cotton waste factory at Fremantle closed last month.Among (lie sacked were ex* servicemen who tought Japan.\V A. Government Rail' ways, Trusi»ade’s biggest client, imported enough cot' ton waste from J tp.rn to last a year.Oinking was co-editor of the L»r Mufiikenrieher'*, notorious U Nazi editorials.On U.S. Black-Listhen interrogated by the American Ur/ Government in 1945. GJese-excused and Justified Hitler and he oelieved in Hitlers ‘ new r He was temporarily black -by the Americans.1949. Gieseking went to America r *nd ex-soldiers' protests and 4H», were so effective that Gieseking had to leave America without giving one concert.•We think bays the Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism. ' that it is an affront to live Australian people for the A BC to engage such an artist and that, if he is accepted without protest, the stage will be set for the free influx of all types of Nazi collaborators.”- - - ______-'i-a ♦Await Mayor ml Garbage CartCYDNEY Branch Treasurer 'Sian v Moran relays news that when a member of the strike-breakers’ Auckland Cargo Workers* Union got a Council Job collecting garbage, the Council unionists struck.Garbage remained uncollected; flies and rats were prevalent.N Z. unionists patiently waited at 4 a.m. for Auckland Mayor i8»r John Allum . who was prepared to act as a strike-breaker in the waterfront dispute, to come ai4 get their garbage.They waited in vain.The strike-breaker was forced to abandon tlie idea of becoming a garbage-collector.
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Melbourne Maritime Worker

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Sat, Mar 08, 1952

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