And the S.P.D. Why does the SPD slander the Nazis as enemies of pay agreements?

Why does the SPD slander the Nazis as enemies of pay agreements? To divert the masses from the fact that it is the socialist party hacks who are loosening the pay agreements to permit pay reductions to preserve their own spoils of office. Just two cases:

The commission that unanimously lowered the pay of metal workers by 7% in fall 1930 included the Social Democrat Prof. Sinzheimer.

The three-man team that unanimously reduced the pay in the Rhineland-Westphalia Ruhr Syndicate by 7% included the Social Democratic government councilor Bergemann-Düsseldorf.

German workers

There are your enemies, those who reduce your pay so that they can continue to sit in their comfortable chairs.

Why does the SPD slander the Nazis as “reactionary puppets of Hugenberg”? To divert its followers from the fact that those socialist party hacks who presumably were fighting Brüning’s government and its emergency degrees before 14 September 1930 are now tolerating it at any cost. Also at the cost of one wage reduction after another. Presumably to avert something worse. And what does “worse” look like?

The socialist press lies in saying that a Nazi government would mean the rule of big industry. To prevent that, one has to tolerate Brüning.