The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-20
Working Class OF the Saar Region
Unites to Fight Hordes of Fascism

difficulty in reinforcing, in the
measure it sees fit, it's police and its
gendarmerie, by calling on those
elements whose loyalty cannot be
doubted" N'Humanite, June A..
What is the meaning of this
quotation? 1t means that no mat
ter what the outcome on January
Is, 1885, the strained situation be-
tween the two capitalist countries
will continue; it means that armed
intervention on an international
scale is not only possibility but a
probability; it means that the two
countries may meet each other with
armed forces in order to defend the
interests of their respective steel,
coal and bank magnates; it means
that war is likely to break out.
During the June conference of
the League, delegation elected by
the Congress for the Liberation of
the Saar, representing some 10000
workers, was sent to Geneva to pro-
test against the secretiveness Of the
conference. 1t protested that they,
the workers, were not consulted first
in the decisions of the plebiscite
The commission evaded the issue
When the delegates, headed by Bur-
ter "a worker from the factory of
Roechling), Krausshaar delegate
to the Congress for the Liberation
of the Saar) and the writer Gustav
Regler, saw that they could obtain
no information as to the agreement,
they asked the commission the fol-
lowing questions: HAS the Ger
man government guaranteed that
l. After the return of the Saar
to Germany, no worker or anti
fascist will be harmed because of
his political or trade-union opin-
ions?
2. That the trade union or pO-
litical organizations of the work.
ing class, as well as the Catho-
lie youth organizations will neither
be suspended nor dissolved and
that their property will be re-
spected.
3. That the trade union and
other rights of the workers, par
ticularly the right of wage bar
gaining and the free election of
workers committees, as well as
the rights, derived from different
insurance institutions (unemploy-
ment insurance, invalidity, acct
dents, etc. and the unrestricted
right of organization will be re-
spected?
4. That the rights of the work.
ers, until now disregarded by the
governmental commission of the
Saar region, will be Immediately
reinstated?
The commission refused to answer
1t refused because it was tacitly
plotting with Hitler's lackey, Won
Neurath, and the French imperialists
to crush the workers militancy and
the revolutionary spirit which lis
being manifested in the Saar region
Before leav.>s, Regler retorted tc
the German commission that the
only guarantee that he saw possible
ito fight the Hitler terror in the
Saar region and to prevent the re-
turn of the Saar to Hitler is united
front of the proletariat and all
anti-fascists. THE slogan of oul
action" he added, SIS and will be:
Fight Hitler in the Saar with the
same energy that our comrades are
exerting in fighting and defeating
him in Germany"
The delegation continued its
rounds and finally came upon Mr.
Knox, the president of the govern
mental commission of the Saar re-
gion. He, too, refused an answer
finally admitting that they OBJ
tanned a 10 per cent guarantee Of
security from Hitler" What does
the 80 per cent of insecurity means
1t means that 10 per cent ano
30 per cent have the same value
both signify Hitler terror in the
Saar. The only force which car
crush the fascist actions of Hitler
is the force of the united front.