The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES -
Dimitroff on the Saar
Hitler's Promises"
The Call of the Hour

around the world IN MS 1T11s
perishable, heroic attack on
Hitler fascism, is now raised
against the F. = ,ist threats in
the Saar. "The struggle in
the Saar is the great battle between
freedom and barbarity, between
peace and war" declared Dimitroff.
We print below an interview given
by Comrade Dimitroff to the Moss
cow correspondent Of the Saar.
orucken "Arbeiter zeitung," on
Why the Status Quo"
Il AM following with intensest Inc
terest the struggle of the peaple
Of the Saar. We Communists, as
everyone knows, do not regard the
status quo as the final solution for
the Saar district, as little as the
toiling masses of the Saar regard
it in this light. We Communists
are for the complete emancipation
Of the Saar population, including
the abolition of any government by
the League Of Nations. But at the
present juncture the Saar popula-
ton has to choose between two pos
slbillt1es. Either to vote for the
status quo or for utilization to fas~
cist Hitler Germany. At the pres.
ent time there is no other pos.
sibility.
THE Saar is a German district.
and must remain German. The
Saarlander will always struggle for
a re-uniting with the. German
people, but they will not take
up this struggle till the moment
when it really lies in the interest
Of Germany and the Saar. !.
Every Saarlander who comes for
ward for the freedom of the people
of the Saar, for peace, and who re-
fuses to relinquish the hardly earned
rights Of the toiling masses, who
really loves his people. who really
takes to heart the sufferings of
his millions of brothers in Ger
many-every such Saarlander must
stand theoretically and determinedly
against the affiliation OF the Saar
district to Hitler Germany. have
received many letters from the Saar
and from Germany. They are all
inspired by one thought:
All are against the Hitler fas-
cism which has enslaved the Ger
man people in the service Of the
industrial magnates and the bank
ers. 1t is no wonder that the masses
of the Saar district have no wish to
be maltreated and beaten by Hitler's
bands, and incarcerated in concen-
tration camps.
THEY do not want to be deprived
l of their rights, and to see their
trade union agreements destroyed.
in the interests of Rochling, Of
Papen, Wolff, and Co.
They do not want their youth
to be driven from the works and
factories into the barracks, nor their
wives and daughters degraded to
second class human beings.
They do not want the Saar dis
trict to be made the base for Hit
ler's war advance.
For if Hitler were to be success
full in the Saar, fascism would be
encouraged to an even more UNI
bearable enslavement and exploita-
ton of the German people, and the
-mongerers would be spurred on
to further efforts. But vice-versa:
A defeat of Hitler in the Saar sig
nifies a severe blow to fascism, and
not only in Germany.
HITLER is endeavoring to lure the
III Saar population by variety Of
promises. But it is a notorious fact
that Hitler was extremely free with
extravaganza promises to the millions
of the toiling masses in Germany.
I ask. Has even one of these prom
ises been kept to working youth.
to the women, to the small peasants.
to the middle class?
rs it not true that wages have
been reduced by about 20 per cent
by direct wage cuts and compulsory
contributions to funds, whilst at
the same time the dividends of the
large capitalists have increased?
THAT in 1888 Hitler stole 800 mil.
lions from the Unemployment in.
surance2
That the social insurance benefit
and service have been reduced and
destroyed
rs 1t not true that in the first
half of 1884 the amount Of goods
consumed by the toiling masses fell
off by So per cent, even when com.
pared only with 1888?
That the workers press, the trade
unions, have been shattered?
That Ernst Thaelmann, the Lead
er of the German working class, has
been kept in prison for almost two
years, maltreated, and is to be
brought up before a court OF blood
justice?
That the number of persons con-
demned to death and already ex-
ecuted is increasing steadily?
That prisoners are continually
pelng shot whilst attempting to es-
capt?
If all this is so-and incontest-
ably it is-who cannot but realize
that affiliation to Hitler Germany
signifies:
Slave wages, forced labor, the
horrors of the concentration camps.
the lettering of all intellectual life,
the rule of the executioners, the
madness of war.
The freedom and the future Of
the Saar people lies in it's own
hands.
What must be done?
How are the masses of the people
to prevent the coming of fascism,
barbariSm and slavery? It is COM
prehensible that political differences
exis5 arcong the people OF the Saar,