The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-28
Nazis Seek Rich Coal
And Mineral Fields
For Aggression
by BurcL

France derives equally from our
class policy For us the French
imperialists are avid conquerors who
Cypress the toiling masses in a
fashion scarcely democratic" but
using methods more and more fas-
cist under the regime established
by the League of Nations. We stand
as resolutely against the con-
sortiums of the French industrial
lists and bankers, as we do against
the national" masters of the Ber-
lin banks and the Ruhr munitions
factories.
Let us examine the third possible
variant of free disposition which
the imperialists propose to the pop
ulation of the Saar-the status quo.
Wages were being reduced greatly
by the regime of the League of Ma
tons; the methods of adminiStra-
ton were more and more taking on
the despotic character of an open
dictatorship, the freedom of the
workers to organize was being more
and more restricted, class justice
was ever sharpening its knife
against the worker. In word, the
regime of the League of Nations was
engaged in satisfying as best it
could the interests of the French
mine owners and German stock
holders.
Only the Communist Party in the
Saar, in alliance with the proletariat
of Germany and France, has led q
constant and systematic struggle
against this regime. The numerous
strikes in the metal factories and
coal mines, the huge demonstra-
tons, the daily struggle for the i'm
mediate economic and political in
terests of the proletariat, are proof
of this. The terror eXerted by the
Saar authorities is directed almost
exclusively against the Communist
Party and the revolutionary mass
organizations. But all this can not
change our revolutionary class po-
sition concerning the problem: If,
of all these proposed variants, we
come out for the status quo, we
destroy with one blow the calcula-
tons of the French and German
imperialistS aiming to use the toll
ers as an advance guard for their
war policy.
The status quo is for us only a
provisional revolutionary compro-
mise" and in no way signifies that
we approve of the present regime
Of the League of Nations. We are
only using this situation to organize
/ the struggle of the working masses
for their revolutionary ends under
conditions more favorable than
those of Hitler fascism or those of
French domination of war dictator
ship, profiting meanwhile by the
Emergencies between the French
and German imperialists.
Develop the Anti-Fascist Fight
Thus, we create no parliamentary
illusions on the issue of the plebi-
scite for the status quo, but we
bring the struggle against fascism
to higher plane in the Saar. Our
decision in favor of the status quo
destined to strike a decisive blow
at Hitler fascism in the Saar, has
found powerful echo among the
social democratic workers and the
members of the Christian trade
unions in the Saar. This facilitates
the organization of the struggle for
the united front against the estab-
lishment of a fascist dictatorship by
the government of the League OF
Nations.
Our revolutionary compromise
is necessary because, due to the
splitting policy of German social
democracy, the German working
class has been unable to overthrow
fascism, unable to establish the die
tatorship of the proletariat which
would truly grant to the toiling
masses of the Saar the right tc
dispose of themselves. Our 'revo-
lutionary compromise is the correct
method of developing a forcefu
anti-fascist movement of the work