The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-19
World Front
Nazi Methods in the Saar
Fraud in Registrations
More Light on Spain
By HARRY CANNES

Clle 4NdLlS Dy every means and
at all costs to drive the Saar
under the yoke of Hitler fas.
cism becomes more intense.
The fact that the Nazis have their
organized murder gangs prepared
Tor action in the Saar has already
been exposed. The latest trickerv
OF the Nazis is the flooding Of the
voting registration with over 125.-
600 fake voters.
Latest reports from Paris state that
though the January l, 1920 census
IN the Saar showed a population of
oOo,OOO persons, more than 500 1000
names are on the registration lists.
All Of the male and female nonu.
lation above the age of 20 are elie.
lnle to vote. The Nazis, skilled in
manipulating elections in. Germany
ready to go to any length to force
the rich Saar territory under the
sWsstika, have resorted to every
known and unknown fakerv To at
TEMPT to insure them victory in the
elections.
The Fascist scoundrels realize
that the Saar plebiscite and what
Will follow will be one Of the
greatest tests for Fascism A vic
tory against Hitler in the Saar
would go a long way towards helm
ing to defeat Fascism in Germany.
Inc Fascist regime is ready to pre-
clpltate war in order to insure
us domination in the Saar. The
Communist Party and the Socialist
Party in the Saar have declared
Tor the status quo, the existing ar
engagements OF the League of Ma
lions rule, not as an expression NJ
commence in this form of rule. but
as the best means for Continuing
Ine revolutionary struggle against
FaScism, and for the ultimate unity
OF the Saar with a proIetarian
germany The other alternatives
are unity with Fascist Germanv
or with imperialist France.
THE French imperialists, in their
own interests, recognizing the
armed strength of Fascism in the
Saar and the recent revelations of
crooked plebiscite proceedings. are
urging a postponement of the
pieoiscite to the spring of 1885. +.
On the question of the taxing Of
the registrations. latest cables from
the Saar show that the Nazis have
urged married women to register
under the maiden name, as well az
their legal name.
The "Arbeiter -zeitung" in saar.
oruecken reports that 100 900 IN
$4,000 complaints have already
been entered against the lists of
voters. This margin of faxed reg
istrations is sufficient to decide the
election one way or the other-most
probably the way the Nazis want
II to go. Many of the Nazis and
members of the so-called German
'front.' are entered twice. On the
other hand, the errors" depriving
voters of their right to vote, the
wrong registration of names and
dates of birth, occur STRANGELY
enough among those persons known
to be anti-fascists, Communists,
Socialists, Catholics and Jews.
AMONG the voters fraudulentlv
A registered are workers who are
now living in Germany. The Hitler
government traced all these work.
ers. Under threats of violence.
loss of job, imprisonment, they were
forced to register and to promise
to cast their vote for unity with
Germany. They were also forced
to register their wives and children.
The usual Tammany trick OF
registering names in cemeteries
has been resorted to. When a notice
is sent to a Nazi family in which
the voter is deceased, the other
members of the family register the
name and report this fact to Nazi
headquarters so that it can be
taken care OF on election day
All of these tricks, being exposed
in the anti-fascist press in the
Saar, is intensifying the struggle.
engaging the Nazis. and bringing
about an atmosphere of the ex-
pectancy of the outbreak of the
sharpest struggles.
MORE detailed cables on the
iH Spanish struggles that appear in
the London Daily Worker of Oct.
-, from its special correspondent
in Barcelona, show how the errors
and hesitations of the Anarcho-
syndicalist leaders led to the de-
feat of the Catalonian indepen-
dence movement.
"The Anarchist organizations are
in numbers the strongest in Cata-
lonia," says the London Daily
Worker correspondent.
THE fell of the independent
Catalonian government on Sunday
is partly attributable to the fact
that many of the Anarchist lead
ers continued to maintain their
staining alliance with Ler-
roux, the old radical leader. now
head Of the new government. On
the absurd grounds of pure inter-
nationalisrn' they refused to align
Themselves With the Workers ALI
ance in the contemporaries fight
for Catalonian independence
This false ''internationalism.
which failed to see the revolutions
airy role of the struggle for the ma
tional INDEPENDENCE of Catalonia
as lever for the speeding of the
revolutionary fight throughout
Spain, was cheered by the Fascist
Lerroux Robes regime as the de-
cisive factor in the defeat of the
workers Later some of the Anarch-