The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-14
World Front
By HARRY CANNES
After the Saar Vote
The Fight Goes On
If the Saar Is ANNOYED

AhC AEHI OOCS VII
If the Saar Is Annexed
COMETIME today the Saar
" plebiscite will be known.
Every vote recorded for the
status quo is a vote against
the stream, that is, a vote
cast, despite impelling desire
to return to Germany, for
battle against German fascism, at
the cost of declining immediate re-
turn after Is years of anxious and
hopeful waiting.
The end of the plebiscite Is BY
no means the end of the Saar strug-
gle. The fight now will assume even
sharper forms, whichever way the
vote goes. Should the majority
vote for return to Germany, and the
League of Nations decide to comply
with this ajority, new and more
difficult problems arise for German
fascism. Hitler will make the
greatest demonstrative use of
majority plebiscite result for return
to Germany. The Nazi press will go
into frenzy. But the festivities will
be short-lived.
The most serious economic and
political problems will then confront
German fascism and the Saar popu-
laticn. The economic life of the
Saar will be ripped to pieces.
Whereas the Saar virtually had a
free market in both Germany and
France, tariff barriers will be put
up at the French border. The Saar
steel industries will be torn away
from their ore supply In Lorrain,
owned by French imperialism. The
catastrophe economic crisis which
hangs over all Germany like pail
will blanket the Saar.
THOSE who voted for return to
Germany as the lesser evil to
risking what they thought the pos
sibility of never again getting an
opportunity to express themselves,
will then be confronted with the
greater evil of being at the mercy
OF the hangmen of Germany. There
by German fascism will incorporate
into itself new anti-fascist virus
of deadly potentialities, with
united front against fascism already
formed, which will continue its bat-
ties after return to Germany in con-
junction with the great and growing
mass Fascist front already in
Germany.
Even the American capitalist
journalists in Europe recognize that
whatever enthusiasm for return to
Germany there is PREVALENT in the
Saar will turn into its opposite once
the great proletarian population OF
the Saar has been forced under the
yoke of the bloody Hitler regime.
A LARGE minority for the status
n quo will clearly sharpen the
struggle against return to Germany.
The decision then rests with the
League of Nations, as the vote it,
self is not the determining factor,
but is considered to be primarily a
guide in helping the League Coun-
Gil arrive at its final Judgment.
Here world mass pressure can help
tremendously. With very close
vote, or considerable minority, the
demand can be made that return
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such time as the people of the Saar
can be guaranteed that this section
Of the population who voted against
Hitler will not be met with the cer-
tainty of concentration camps or
death.
The fight can then go on not
only for delay in the actual hand=
ing over the Saar to Germany, but
for safeguards, for the protection
of the rights of the workers organ
izations, for the right of asylum for
the leaders, for encouragement to
the Saar proletariat to continue even
more theoretically their fight.
On the other hand, the Nazis
recognizing this situation will at
tempt to provoke the most bloody
conflicts. Their armed hordes, al
ready at the Saar border, will GER
tainly attempt in some places to
march over and establish their MUIR
derouS rule in order TO attempt to
avoid the inevitable world struggle
that is sure to follow against Hit
lerS grasp over the Saar.
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secret police and execution squads
will begin their work within the
Saar which will provoke the Sharp
est clashes.
THE war danger will be heightened
throughout Europe as never be-
fore. Italian fascism has already
demonstrated that it fears that the
Nazi moves in the Saar will be ac-
companied by simultaneous action
for the seizure of Austria.
And should the Saar vote in the
majority go for the status quo, with
Austria blocked as a road to new
plumber for German fascism by the
Franco-Italian pact, then Hitler will
follow the line expressed in his book,
"Mein Kampf," and turn to the
East chat is, to the Soviet Union)
for the greatest efforts for a war
of plumber. BY that time, Hitler
reasons, the passes over the kim
gan Mountains in Manchuria will
be thawing, and his japanese i'm
perialist allies will be ready for the
oloodiest adventure against the
workers fatherland, always the last
trump in the hand of desperate Ger-
man fascism.