The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-28
Commission of League
OF Nations Forces
Hunger, Pillage

BY ". u.
The commission of the League OF
Nations has definitely fixed the
plebiscite of the Saar Tor Jan. 7,
1885. The problem of this territory
thus poses itself as one of primary
importance, with even more acute
ness than before. 1t becomes an i'm
portant political factor in central
Europe and in the entire world. The
crisis in the Versailles system en-
genders series of new imperialist
explosions and it will be accom-
panied by recrudescent class battles.
The struggle between France and
Germany for the Saar is manifestly
becoming a fire from which might
squirt the flame of an imperialist
war.
Imperialist Rivalries
The French and German impe-
rialists, the French Steel Trust and
the German barons of heavy in
dustry, the de Wendels and the
Roechlings, are fighting for the coal
and the freightage in the extraction
of minerals.
Hitler fascism has unleashed the
chauvinist passions in the Saar too.
BY its dictatorship Of blood and
hunger at home and its vigorous
propaganda in the Saar, it is at
tempting to canalize the growing
discomfort of the masses towards
the politics of military adventurism
which is headed by the war industry
and by the capitalists of Germany
who are expecting from the new
world butchery, and above all from
the war against the U. S. s. R. a
new increase in space for the Ger
man people" more correctly, for
these goals of rapine.
1t goes without saying that
neither do the French imperialists
want to give up the Saar. They are
attempting, on the contrary, to con-
solidate their political and economic
power. The Saac has also an ex-
tremely great strategic Importance,
as base of operations against Ger
many.
Fifteen years of activity of the
administrative commission named
by the League of Nations to govern
the Saar continued the policy of
famine and pillage of the workers
of the Saar, sin the name of democ-
racy," or better in the interest of
the powerful magnates of French
industry. The German owners and
stockholders of the metallurgical
enterprises and mines participated
equally in this pillage
1t is in this eddy of imperialist
contradictions of chauvinist mad
ness, of the despotism of the au-
thorities managing in the name of
the League of Nations, that the
class struggle unfolds in the Saar.
1t grows with the impoverishment of
the toiling masses and presents Sc
ries of special problems.
Liberty to Dispose of Oneself
OAlC vi GllC SAcuoSo VI lIlG YER
sailles Treaty entered into by the
French and German imperialists
stipulates that on the 18th of Jan
uary, 1885, the population of the
Saar will decide its fate for itself. -
But, never yet has the right of self
determination been SO violated as
in this Franco German agreement
made at Geneva. Is it right to
self-determination when two bri-
gands want to share their booty and
accord to their victims the right
to choose which one shall de-
spoil them?
Lenin characterised masterfully
such a self determination" when
he wrote about the great European
Powers who had engaged in a con-
troversy over the annexation of
Bosnia Herzegovina by Austria
Hungary:
But the stupid liberals can
chatter in the press and in Par
Lament on the manner in which