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"The Hitler movement claims to be a popular movement, sponsored by the overwhelming mass of public opinion. It alleges that its only opponents are Communists, internationalists, pacifists. Socialists and Jews. You have to know something of the origins of this Hitler movement to understand it for what it really is —a sinister, well-planned conspiracy on the part of the former ruling classes of Germany to regain the power they lost when they lost the War. . . .
"Make no mistake about it—the Hitler government is the instrument of the re-action these people have engineered. It is to serve their interests that the German trade union movement has been destroyed."
The American Federation of Teachers also denounced "Hitler's revolting sadistic orgies.''
An unlooked-for bit of spleen was vented by the Typographical Union, which denounced Father Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit, radio preacher, for building his Shrine of the Little Flower with non-union labor, printing his tracts in non-union plants, advocating the open shop. The typographers asked the Federation "to find him no longer entitled to financial support from any trade unionist."