The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-27
Hitler Calls
For Selling
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Saar Basin
Communists Campaign
Against Annexation
TO Any Country


opened an intensive drive Of the
fascist butchers of Germany to bring
the Saar region under the DONNA
ton of the Nazis Before massed
mobilization of Nazi forces from the
Saar itself and from all parts OF
Germany, Hitler declared that the
Saar must become part Of Germany
under fascist rule, and urged all
Germans in the Saar to vote in the
January plebiscite for the annexa-
ton of the Saar by the Hitler die
tatorship.
More than ITO special trains were
chartered for special demonstra-
ton to win the Saar for the Krupps,
and other German bankers, and to
enslave the Saar people.
Recently, in view Of the intensive
Nazi terror campaign in the Saar,
the Communist Party and Socialist
Party of the Saar formed a united
front against faScism. The Nazis
have repeatedly asserted that if they
do not win the plebiscite, they will
force annexation of the Saar to fas-
cist Germany by an armed uprising.
The victory of the Nazis in the -aar
would mean wholesale bloodshed of
the Saar workers, and a crushing
of all their organizations.
The plebiscite presents three al
ternatives before the voters: Cd
status quo, the rule of the Saar by
a League of Nations Commission of
Five; (2) return to fascist Germany;
90 annexation to French imperial
ism.
Communist Position
The Communist Party of the Saar,
in it's fight for the proletarian revo-
luton, and against fascism, has
stated its position on the forthcom-
ing plebiscite as follows
THE revolutionary upsurge in
Germany and the progress of the
class forces in the Saar province
prove that the prospects of the pro-
letarian revolution are becoming
more favorable and that the social
and national emancipation of Ger
many and of the Saar province can
be achieved only by means of the
victorious German October.
The sober estimate of the class
forces of the proletariat, the terms
of the plebiscite dictated by the
Versailles Treaty, the fact that the
present situation of the class forces
does not permit us to commence the
fight for the dictatorship of the
proletariat, induces the Communists,
whilst unSWervingly keeping to the
aim of a Red Saar district in Soviet
Germany, to propose to the working
population of the Saar that of the
three alternatives they vote for the
status quo.
I'VE Communists openly declare
that we thereby want to obtain a
more favorable fighting basis for our
final struggle and to prepare with
increased forces for the social and
national emancipation of the Saar."
AS one of the leaders of the Com
munist Party of the Saar pointed
out; The Communists are against
the union of the Saar with France.
They are equally against its union
with Germany at the present time.
They do not believe in committing
suicide! To advocate union with
Hitler Germany would mean to be-
tray the workers, would mean to
advocate their being placed under
the heel of Hitler fascism.
Defeat Fascism!
1.-THE interests of the workers and
the toiling population demand de-
cision which shall provide the great
est possibility for the development
and extension of the anti fascist
struggle. Under the present con-
ditions, and in spite of the hostility
Of the Communists to any capitalist
regime, this possibility is offered by
the status quo"
The Communists further point out
that this defeat of Hitlers aims
would help speed the proletarian
revolution in Germany and bring
closer the day when the Saar would
be joined with a Soviet Germany
The greater the defeat of Hitler
in the Saar, the sooner will it be
possible to join the Saar to a free
Germany.
Every effort must be made in
the United States to defeat Hit
ler's annexation and war plans in
the Saar. Resolutions should be
passed by all workers organize
tions, by all anti-fascist groups
and sent to the Saar workers,
urging them, on this basis to vote
for the status quo, and against
union with fascist Germany. Es-
pecially former residents of the
Saar in the United States should
write letters to their relatives,
friends and comrades, urging them
to fight against HitIer's annexa-
ton plans.
The struggle against HitIer's
seizure of the Saar is now becom-
ing enc of the biggest struggles
against German fascism, as the
Hitler executioners look to the
Saar as rich field for profits and
sustenance of the murder cam
paign, and as an added war base
for the plans for attack on the
Soviet Union.
C.P. in Staten Island