1.
SV TRADE UNION DEMONSTRATORS WITH BANNERS (2 SHOTS)
0.10

2.
CU PLACARD: HITLER & NDP (2 SHOTS)
0.13

3.
SV PLACARDS AND DEMONSTRATORS (3 SHOTS)
0.22

4.
LV CONVENTION BUILDING
0.27

5.
SV DEMONSTRATORS OUTSIDE
0.31

6.
SV INT. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN VON THADDEN & COMMITTEE MEMBERS OF NDP
0.41

7.
CU VON THADDEN (3 SHOTS)
0.56

8.
GV PAN. EXT. TRADE UNION DEMONSTRATIONS
1.05

9.
CU SIGN "DGB" PULL BACK TO SHOW SPEAKER LODERER SOF:
1.43

10.
SV DGB WORKERS APPLAUD. SOF ENDS
1.46



Initials JRG/V/WH/SGM



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Background: WEST GERMAN RIOT POLICE WENT INTO ACTION TONIGHT (FRIDAY) IN KARLSRUHE TO BREAK UP SCUFFLES BETWEEN EXTREME RIGHT-WINGERS AND TRADE UNIONISTS.

THE CLASH CAME AT THE END OF A DAY OF PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION BY SOCIALISTS AGAINST THE ALLEGEDLY NEO-NAZI NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY (NDP) HOLDING IT ANNUAL CONVENTION THERE.

THOUSANDS OF WORKERS FROM ALL OVER SOUGH GERMANY TOOK PART IN THE PROTEST DEMONSTRATION AND HEARD THEIR LEADERS - AMONG THEM HERR EUGEN LODERER - CLAIM THAT THE NDP REPRESENTS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY.

HERE IS HOW HE BEGAN HIS SPEECH: IN WENIGEN STUNDEN BEGINNT HIER IN KARLSRUHE, IN ANGESICHT DER BEIDEN HOECHSTEN DEUTSCHEN GERICHTE, IN DER STADT, WO DIE DEMOKRATISCHE VERFASSUNG GESCHUETZT WERDEN SOLL, DER BUNDESPARTIETAG EINER PARTEI, DIE SICH NATIONAL DEMOKRATISCH NENNT."
TWELVE OF ITS 18 EXECUTIVE MEMBERS ARE SAID TO BE FORMER NAZIS AND HERR LODERER NAME THEM. LAST SUMMER, NDP MEMBERS LAID WREATHS ON THE GRAVES OF GERMAN WAR CRIMINALS EXECUTED AT LANDSBERG. THE PARTY, WITH 16,000 MEMBERS, HAD TO WIN A COURT BATTLE TO HOLD THE CONVENTION IN KARLSRUHE. WHILE PARTY LEADERS HEADED BY THE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN, HERR ADOLF VON THADDEN, PREPARED THE AGENDA AT AN EXECUTIVE MEETING AT THE CONVENTION HALL, THE TRADE UNION STAGE A MASS RALLY OUTSIDE.