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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-12
RANSOM READY
 FOR K|DNAPERS
 OF W. F. GETTLE
Go-Between Confused by Four Telephone Calls
 and One Letter

BULLETIN - LOS ANGIE LES, May 12.-Activities on the GettIe kidnap front indicated improved developments are mo- mentarily expected. Unconfirm- of reports said the ransom was paid last night and the victim was to be released to- day.
Smyrna times., 1934-07-12
.KENTON NEWS
NOTES OF WEEK
Personal Mention and Social
Items and Other Parties
Reported About Town
COMMUNITY INTEREST

Kenton, July II. = Mr.. Roland
Taylor and family of Kennett
Square, have returned from a visit
to Mr.. Taylor's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. S. NJ. Taylor.
Mr.. Edward McCandless and
daughter Ruth of Philadelphia,
spent a day recently with Mr.. and
Mrs. l.. l.. Erwin.
Master Lawrence and Edward
McCandless of Philadelphia, Pa,
are visiting their grandparents, MI
and Mrs. L. l.. Erwin.
Mrs. William Hoffecker enter
tanned the Ladies' Aid Society
Thursday evening, July 5th.
The Philadelphia and Baraca
Glasses met in the basement OF
church last night "wednesday
July 11th, and had delightful
hour together.
Miss Claire Hughes of Whining
ton, is spending the Summer with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Hughes.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Vannaman
and son Henry of New Jersey, have
been visiting her sister, Mrs. Cliff.
ton Reynolds.
Miss Ivey Walls and Miss Vir.
ginia Pepper of Georgetown, have
been visiting the latters sister
Mrs. Ernest Smith, .Jr.
Miss Catherine Smith, with DIR
and Mrs. H. G. Budd and daughter
Caroline of Dover, have left by
motor for Boston, Mass, to visit
Mr.. Henry Budd, Jr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Crossley. Sr.
have been spending several days
with their daughter, Mrs. w. j
Cook.
Mr.. Byron Pepper and grand
daughter Mary Louise of George
town, spent last Saturday with his
daughter, Mrs. Ernest Smith, Jr.
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Mrs. Harry Sylvester and chill
dren have returned home after
spending several weeks with her
parents near Church Hill, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. o. Reed spent
Sunday with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Sherwood in Smyrna.
Mrs. Edwin Shane and daughter
Thelma Anne, are spending some
time with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Elwood David near Warwick, Nd.
Mr.. Will Shepherd of Whining
ton, is spending this week with his
father, Mr.. William Shepherd and
Mrs. Shepherd.
Mrs. Jack Montague and chill
dren Jimmy Joyce and Jackie,
spent Sunday with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Lynch in
Dover.
Mr.. Ralph Waller of Harrington,
spent the weekend with Miss Ev-
elyn M. Hoffecker.
Mr.. Charles Clements left on
Tuesday for a trip through the
coal mines at Scranton, Pa, as the
guest of The Foldisch Coal Co.
Wednesday and Thursday will be
spent travelling through the mines.
The trip will be made in private
cars.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Savin have
just returned home from a trip to
the Worlds Fair at Chicago, Ill.
The trip was made via Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. Mr.. and Mrs.
Savin were much pleased with the
many sights and amusements Of
fered at the Worlds Fair.
Mr.. Louis Bailey has just return
ed home from four-day trip up to
New Hampshire and other New
England States. He was the guest
of Ex-Gov. Denney on this trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Ely and chill
dren Junior and Mary Louise, spent
Sunday with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. Pardee in Viola.
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Miss Mary Louise Hughes, who
has been spending some time with
her uncle, Mr.. James Hughes in
Wilmington, is spending the sum-
mer with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Hughes.
Mrs. Paul George of Dover, spent
last week with her father, Mr.. j.
F. Clark.
Mrs. Frank Burrows of Wood
land Beach, spent one day this
week with her father, Mr.. j. F.
Clark.
Miss Jane Anderson of Sudlers-
vile, Md, is visiting her cousin,
Miss Elizabeth Attix.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Morris of
Havre de Grace, Md, spent Mon
day with her mother, Mrs. James
Bishop.
Master Billy Morris of Havre de
Grace, Md, is visiting his grand
mother, Mrs. Leatha Bishop.
Miss Pearl Short is visiting in
Wilmington.
Miss Gertrude Parsons is visit
ing relatives in Chester, Pa.
Reverend and Mrs. Disston
Jacobs of Wilmington, were guests
of his father and mother on Mon
day.
Mrs. Howard Clifton, who has
been away for the past week, has
returned home.
Mrs. Anna Coppage of FELTON,, is
visiting her cousin, Mrs. Addie G.
Arthurs and family.
Mrs. Mollie Tucker of Centre
vile, Md, is visiting her sister,
Mrs. E. F. Smith, Sr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Craig en-
tertained company on Sunday.
Mrs. Howard Hutchins who was
the selected school teacher for
Kent County, is enjoying a two
weeks trip in New Hampshire.
Mrs. Frank Burrows of Wood
land Beach, spent couple of days
last week with her father, Mr.. J.
F. Clark.
Mrs. Paul George of Dover, is
visiting her father, Mr.. J. F. Clark
Miss Nancy Arthurs is visiting
friend at Charleston Beach, Md.
Mrs. William d. Hoffecker enter
tanned the Ladies Aid Society
Thursday evening. A delightful
time was had.
Mrs. Gilbert Davis entertained
the Home Demonstration Club on
last Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Dawson and
son of Pittsburgh, Pa, are visiting
his mother, Mrs. Emily Dawson.
Mr. Howard Hutchins is spend.
ing two weeks with his mother
Mrs. Nathan Hutchins.
Mr.. Reese Taylor, who has beer
in the Kent General Hospital fol
/ treatment, is home and doing as
well as could be expected.
Mrs. F. F. Smith, Sr., Mrs. E. F
Smith, Jr., and Mrs. Mollie Tucker
motored to Rehoboth on Tuesday
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SOME SMYRNA
LANDING NEWS
Budget Of News and Person
ais Cleaned About Smyr-
ma River Wharves
CITIZENS MAKE VISITS

Smyrna Landing, July 12.-Mr.
and Mrs. William Nowlan and chill
dren, Miss Ruth, Elanor, Doris and
Ronald, near Smyrna; Mr.. and
Mrs. Lester Burris of Fleming's S
Landing; Mrs. Eddie Burris and
daughter Alice Ann of Smyrna;
Mrs. Walker Warner, and daughter
Miss Estelle of Deakyneville; Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph McClain and little
son Jimmy, Mr.. Wilson Keiser of
Taylor's Bridge, were Sunday Wis
itors of Mrs. Thomas Wrench.
Mrs. Alice Phillips of Whining
ton, who was a resident here years
ago, spent brief visit with friends
here Sunday.
Mrs. I. E. Voss accompanied her
daughter Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Cole
and children, Miss Fay, Vance and
Arlien and spent Monday at Bow
ers' Beach, the guest of Mr.. Sam
Cole, who runs pleasure boat
there during the summer.
Mrs Walter Reed and children
Patsy and Robert, of Marcus Hook,
has been spending several days
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Gaulke.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Warner
and sons Bobby and Alan, of Holly
Oak, spent the Fourth of July with
her mother, Mrs. Emma Davis.
They motored to Woodland Beach
and spent the day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Moffitt of
Leipsic, spent visit with Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Marshel, Sunday.
Miss Francis Slaughter of Mid
dletown, was a Sunday visitor Of
Miss Gladys McAfee.
Messrs. Charles Brown and Roy
Cole of the Wilson Line, are spend
ing Monday and Tuesday, (reliet
days., with their families.
Miss Francis Scott near Clayton
is spending a while with her grand
mother, Mrs. Mary Brown.
Miss Edna Davis is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Harold Warner at Hol-
ly Oak.
Little Jackie Lovegrove, the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Lovegrove
who had the misfortune to be
struck by an automobile last week
is convalescing satisfactory.
The Fourth of July was a quiet
day here. Most ali of the people
motored to some watering place
and spent the day.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton McAfet
spent Friday of last week at Bow
ers' Beach. Mrs. Sam. ]. Cole anC
Mrs. Mark Scout accompanied
\ them.
\ Mrs. Clifton McAfee and daugh
ter Miss Gladys spent Monday a
Dover. Mrs. Mary Scout and Mrs
Sam. J. Cole accompanied them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jeff. P. Scout O
Wilmington, spent a visit with hi
father, ]. D. Scout, Sunday.
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The Rev. and Mrs. BENJAMIN =
Thompson left Thursday to spend
the summer in Florida.
At buffet dinner held FRIDAY
evening by Mr.. and Mrs. James n
Hughes, of Dover, at their summer
home in Rehoboth, announcement
was made of the engagement Of
their daughter, Miss Mary Ade-
laide Hughes, to Wellington Oak
man Hay, Jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs
W.Oakman Hay, of Camden. South
Carolina. Miss Hughes is a grad
uate of the Dover High School
She attended Sweet Briar COLLEGE
Virginia, for a year and three
years at the Fine and Applied Arts
School, New York City and Paris
France, from where she graduated
as an interior decorator. Mis-
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DOWN TAYLOR'S
BRIDGE WAY
Items of Community Interest
Cleaned From Around
ThOrOughfare Neck
NEWS AND PERSONALS

Taylor's Bridge, July 12.- Mrs.
Arthur Curry and sons of Chester,
spent several days last week with
her mother, Mrs. Ella McClain and
family.
Mr.. James c. CHM of Rutledge,
Pa, and Mr.. William Daniels of
Delaware City, spent Tuesday with
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Arthur CHM.
Little Jack Dukes is visiting his
aunt and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. c. H.
Dukes of near Odessa.
Miss Mabel McClain spent last
week with her sister, Mrs. Brad
ford Naylor and Mr.. Naylor in
Townsend.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Collins of Do
yer, spent the weekend with Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Derrickson.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Patterson
and Mrs. Herman Johnson, and
Miss Myrtle Johnson of Smyrna,
and Mrs. Edward Dawkins and
daughter Fay, of Honesdale, Pa,
Miss Louise Anderson and Mr..
Howard Daniels were Fourth of
July visitors with Mr.. and Mrs. r.
B. Davidson and Mr.. and Mrs.
Roland Johnson.
Misses Louise and Frances Dan
iels are spending several days with
their grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Daniels near Townsend.
Miss Ruth Council of Middle
town, and Mr.. John Shockley are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Shockley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Delbert Steller and
son, and Mr.. and Mrs. Lee David
spent Sunday with their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. William r. Alfree
near Middletown.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Latta, Mrs. R
B. Davidson, Mrs. Roland Johnson,
and Miss Mary Louise Reed spent
Friday in Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Dukes OF
near Odessa, spent Fourth of July
with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles z.Dukes
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles McClaiI
and family of Marcus Hook, spent
the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs
Leslie McClain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Wheeler
and daughter of Odessa, and Mr.
and Mrs. Franklin Wheeler anC
sons, have been visiting their par.
ents, Mr.. and Mrs Frank Wheeler
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles q. Dukes
spent Thursday in Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph McClain anc
son, have been visiting her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Walker Warner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Warner
were Sunday visitors with Mr. anC
Mrs. Samuel T. Sweetman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfonso Gallow:
and Mr.. and Mrs. Broadbent Of
Wilmington, spent Sunday with Nj
and Mrs. William Forakers.
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SASSAFRAS
Items of Personal and Social In
terest Cleaned From the Vicinity

Sassafras, Md, July 12.- Miss
Blanche Waters, of near Smyrna,
is spending some time with Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward George.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Covey, of Bet
terton, are visiting his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. William A. Covey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Othoson Wis
tied Mr. and Mrs. James Peaper,
of Chesapeake City last week
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Ernest, of
Middletown, have been visiting his
mother, Mrs. Elmer Ernest.
Mrs. Edward Swift, of Whining
ton, and friends of Baltimore and
New York, spent the weekend at
Mr.. Hartley's home here.
Mrs. Annie Rosin and Mrs. En-
ma Willis entertained the following
last week: Mr. and Mrs. Furbush,
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STATE CAPITAL
NEWS BUDGET
Personal Items and Social
Mention About Dover Folks
and Their DOings
PARTIES OF THE WEEK

Dover, July II. - Mr.. and Mrs.
John LeFevre have taken up their
residence on Norfolk street, and
had as guests Mrs. Wilbur Raw
leigh, Mrs. Charles Hardesty and
Mrs. Cahall Sipple, OF Dover.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Richardson
and Mr.. and Mrs. William Rich
ardson with their families have es-
tablished themselves here for the
summer. Mrs. Alden B. Richard
son also of Dover, has been their
guest.
Barbara Anne Wilson, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Russell E. Wilson
has gone to Camp Salvedale near
Califon, N. j., for month.
The Misses Caroline and Mary
Adelaide Hughes and Mrs. Willard
Boyce were hostesses at bridge
Monday evening at the new home
of the latter, on State street, in
honor of Mrs. Gordon Cockburn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank R. Hayes
and family went to kits Ham
mock, Friday to spend the re-
mainder of the summer at the
Jackson cottage.
Tommy Gooden, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas NJ. Gooden, Jr., Rob-
ert Hopkins, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Melvin Hopkins, Billy Roe, son of
Mr.. and Mrs w. Price Roe, Brandt
King, son of Professor and Mrs. H.
B. King, and George Hill, Jr., son
of Mr.. and Mrs. George D. Hill left
Saturday for Camp Appoquinimink
on Silver Lake, near Middletown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob c. Ehrlich
are summering at Sugar Mountain,
White Mountains, N. H. Their son,
Billy, is attending boys camp at
South Belgrade. Me.
/ Miss Dorothy Hayes, a member
of the faculty of Claymont High
School, spent several days with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John c.
Hayes before leaving for Philadel-
phia for summer study at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania
! Mr.. and Mrs. J. Clements Bowdle
/ and children are spending the sum-
mer at the Bowdle cottage at Re
hoboth, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Bowdle,
Sr., joining them week-ends. The
/ latter's son, Professor Andrew c.
Bowdle, left Thursday for New
York to study at Columbia Uni
versity
Mrs. Thomas c. Horsey and
granddaughter, Miss Alma H.
Fooks, have left to spend the sum-
mer at their cottage at Rehoboth.
Mrs. Daniel Mifflin is in New
York for a month, the guest of
her sister, Mrs. Ella Ridgely.
M. Hayes Wilson, Jr., has as his
guest, Walter Lilly, of Washington,
a schoolmate at Mercersburg
Academy. Wednesday, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilson, their son and guest
went to Rehoboth to occupy the
Hayes cottage over the Fourth and
weekend.
Smyrna times., 1934-07-12

and Mrs. Izer, of Phillipsburg, NJ;
Mr.. and Mrs. George French, Mrs.
Ruth and Mrs. Crossley, of Ches-
tertown, and Mrs. Nathaniel John
son, of MiddletoWn.
Misses Helen Johnston and Mir
ian Blackiston spent a visit recent
lv with the formers sister, Mrs.
George Kennedy, of Kennedyville.
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Hughes f1agl returned s,>N II
oeen living for ~ tss.1FFsl
Hal attendsd 7 ns' " Psi
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Smyrna times., 1934-07-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Keiser spent
Thursday at Dover.
Mr.. and Mrs. Presley David and
children, Shirley Ann and Jackie,
were Tuesday visitors with Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Keiser and family.
Smyrna times., 1934-07-12
DEAKYNEVILLE
Items of Personal and Social In
terest Cleaned From the Vicinity

Deakyneville, July 12.- Ruth
Newnom, Mildred Carey, Eleanor
Keiser were with the singing class
from New Castle County rural
schools that attended the Educa-
tional Week Convention at Wash
ington on Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Keiser spent
Saturday in Wilmington.
Little Mary Freeman, who has
been i'll with typhoid fever, is i'm
proving.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15

NPEAKING over a radio network Mon
y day night, Frances Perkins, Roose-
velts Secretary of Labor, made what the
capitalist press universally described as
''plea for social insurance"
Actually Miss Perkins was concerned
with reducing government costs in relief,
in saving money for the bosses and rulers of this
country She stated this quite explicitly when she
said that federal expenditures for relief in the
United States have been too great.
Miss Perkins made no direct statement of her
social insurance proposals, but already know the
policy of the administration of which she is part.
1t is to pare relief to miserably inadequate mini
mum, by providing funds only for a limited period
of time to insist heart-breaking red tape
process by which needy workers will be forced to
prove their eligibility for relief to raise the funds
for jobless workers from the employed and scarcely
better-of fellow workers
Contrast this approach-that of saving money
for the administration and the employers-with
true working -class approach, as embodied in the
Workers Social and Unemployment Insurance Bill
known in the last Congress as H. R. $685.
These proposals approach the problem of relief
from the point of view of actually improving the
conditions of the jobless, the aged and those who
cannot work because of industrial casualties
of people in this country who are hungry destitute
starving sixteen million people" she says, ARE
dependent the public for support In prosperous
periods, around $4,000 workers are annually killed
accidentally in industry; 10000 suffer permanent
injuries and nearly 100000 some temporary dis
ability"
She goes on to say: There are now in this
country above 100000 men and women over IS
years of age, large percentage of whom are
financially dependent"
THE Workers Bill makes actual proposals to better
the plight of these workers. 1t provides for
sum of not less than $40 weekly and SO for each
dependent to be paid to every unemployed adult
and for those incapacitated through sickness old
age, accident, maternity, ETC. 1t includes all work
ers, with no discrimination against Negroes and
foreign born Age, color race and political opinion
make no difference in H. r. 1898
The Workers Bill also insists-unlike Miss
Perkins and the New Deal OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
the insurance be provided at the expense of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
SoViets Fight the Drought

WHILE American farmers are pitilessly
W crushed, desperate and foodless, by
the great drought which has rsvaged the
land during this summer, latest reports
from the Soviet Union declare that the
u. S. S. R. expects to reap a grain harvest
as large as last years, which was the big
gest in the history Of Russia
Thousands of farmers are starving in the United
States Over 100000 farms have been burned
by the intense unrelenting heat Cattle have been
slaughtered by the thousands Almost 1000 men
and women have died because of the drought
Why is it that the Soviet Union is able to har-
vest a crop as large as the one which 1t reaped
last year? The drought also ravaged Soviet farm
country. In many regions of the US.SR, just
in the United States, not drop Of rain fell for
weeks. Despite this the New York Herald Tribune
reports:
ut is now safe to predict that there will be
no shortage of bread in the U.SS,R. next winter.
There will be drought stricken districts in which
the state levy probably will not be met, but on
the whole the state grain collections will be car
ried out in accordance with the original plans
and in all likelihood will enable the Soviet Union
to throw on the foreign market in 1934S5 less
grain than last year, while at the same time re-
tanning the same level Of consumption within the
country"
How was this Accomplished The Herald Tribune
again reports that it was by 'the efficient organza
ton methods introduced in collective farms by the
Politodtel Cthe political division of trained Com
munst administrators sent into various villages,
the availability of increased machine power and the
generally improved attitude of the peasantry toward
collectiwzation. These factors counteracted he
unfavorable climatic conditions"
HOW different this is from the situation in the
IA United States, where the government facing the
same conditions, but immeasurably better equipped
technically did nothing for the common welfare Of
the farm population or the American masses as
whole
Here the administration concentrated as all
capitalist governments do on insuring higher
profits for the wealthy farms and trading concerns
1t introduced the Agricultural Adjustment Admins
tration (A.A.A), which plowed under thousands of
in order to boost grain prices that traders
would reap large profit. The profit, not the har
vest, mattered.
Here cattle were slaughtered and banks were al
lowed to foreclose on farm-mortgages. Homesteads
went under the sale hammer by the thousands.
The result? There will be food shortage here
this Fall and Winter, high forbidding prices for
the great masses Of the population and huge profits
for the rich In addition to this hundreds of thou
sands will be permanently driven off the land.
These are the two words-the world of coec-
tive effort under the Communist leadership of the
dictatorship of the proletariat guiding the
toward Socialism and plenty, and the world of
capitalist anarchy, exploitation plumber and hunger
for the masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
Jap a ne Sc
SeiZe3 80
USSR Men
Renew PrOvOcatiOns on
Fake ''PlOt''
Charges

SHANGHAI, Aug. 14.-Wholesale
raids and arrests of Soviet citizens
on frame-up charges of plotting to
assassinate" the Japanese chief of
the military commission in Hardin
are the latest provocative actions of
the Japanese government agains.
the U. S. S. r. Thirty soviet work
ers were sized two days ago.
The arrests follow long series
Of destructive acts, arrests, incite-
ments along the Chinese Eastern
Railway which the Soviet Union has
offered to sell to the Japanese for a
record low price. The offer has been
refused.
Damage has been inflicted on the
railroad where Japanese troops have
jailed Soviet workers on the road.
The Izvestia, official organ of the
Soviet Government, writes edi-
torially:
The anti-Soviet campaign by the
Japanese and Manchukuo press
comedies with the fresh outbreak of
crude proyocations on the part of
Japanese and Manchukuo officials.
Arrests of Soviet citizens and illegal
searches of Soviet organizations
have again started on the Chinese
Eastern Railway. In other words,
the familiar game is being carried
on, designed to provoke incidents
along the eastern frontier of the
Soviet Union"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
C.. p. Offers
Joint Action
In Saar Vote

PARIS, Aug. A. The District
Committee of the c. P. of the Saar
district addressed an offer of united
action to the Executive of the social
democratic party of the Saar dis
trict. The Committee states in its
letter:
Hitler must be defeated in the
Saar district. The anti-fascist work
ing class must prevent, by means of
mass truggles, the handing over of
the working people of the Saar to
the Hitler fascist regime of blood
and starvation. Union with Ger
many would mean the numbering
and imprisonment of hundreds and
thousands of champions of the anti
fascist working class, abolition of
the most elementary political rights
Of the workers, complete enslave-
ment and suppression Of all toilers,
wage-cuts, closing down of the
mines and increased unemployment.
handing over of our youth to the
fascist warmongers as cannon fodder,
and the ruin of thousands of toll
ing small traders and small peas
ants.
Inspired by the infexible will to
do everything in order to unite the
working class in the struggle against
the fascist deadly enemy and
against the threatening danger of
war, we propose to you a united
front struggle on the basis of the
following demands, slogans and
measures, which are in accordance
with the interests of the working
class:
"1-Immediate adoption of fight
ing measures for the release of
Ernst Thaelmann and all impris-
oned anti-fascists
Reorganization of mass self
defence units in all localities and
factories.
Flight against any restriction
OF the freedom of meeting, demons
trations, press and combination of
the anti-fascist working class.
-Joint mobilization of the
workers for the struggle for wage
increases and unemployment relief.
Formation of fighting com
mlttees against union with Hitler
Germany, and, in the event of an
lmperialist compulsory plebescite.
Tor the maintenance of the status
quo as the relatively most favorable
nghting ground for the working
class"