The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-05

Fight Terror
OF Hitlerites
Not Deceived by Talk
and Attempted Bribery
for Vote Jan, Ii
BY PAUL GREEN


The section of the Rome Pact be
tween French and German finance
capital, which was TO have taken
care Of the liberties and rights Of
those opposed to Hitler, is already
in the garbage can.
Gables and reports are pouring in
to the effect that Hitler has given
new orders TO his saar henchmen
to use the most vicious terroristic
methods to stop the advent Of the
Anti-Nszi Front. The members Of
the "Deutsche Front" (the Nsd
branch In the Saar) are In 2 daze.
Their hepelessness Is transformed
into audaeity that reaches the
heights Of madness. At one of the
meetings a district Nazi leader said;
sour success should be complete.
SO per cent Of the Saarlanders are
marching the road to Hitler" This
statement as 1t stands, and in the
face of their mad propaganda and
the terror they are spreading, would
seem too ridiculous even to the ears
of their own supporters. He there
fore thought it necessary to explain
by saying: "why, then, do we still
fight them7 We are fighting for
the remaining 2 per cent"
For the remaining 2 per cent the
Nasis are spending millions Of
francs. printing hundreds of thou
sands Of newspapers and leaflets,
only to be thrown the next moment
in the waste baskets by the saar-
landers The 2 per cent they
threaten with concentration camps,
with shooting, They invade the
churches, the homes, the offices with
revolvers in hand-sll this to con-
vince and to gain the 2 per cent,
What confidence! What presence of
mind these blood hounds display!
But somehow even those Saar-
landers listening to the Nazi dis
trict leaders are beginning to doubt
them and, as a consequence, the
next day these same workers and
middle class people attend Peoples
Front meeting. There, according to
the "Deutsche Volks-Zeitung," they
hear that in the villages and in the
towns 10 per cent of the people are
lined I'D for the Status Ono; that
in Sulzbach. for instance, the mai
oritv is against Hitler, as well as
in Saarbrucken, where the motto is
For Germany and Against Hitler"
SO these honest and hard working
Saarlanders begin to realize that all
they have been hearing from the
bloodthirsty mouths of these Hit
lerites is a pack Of lies; they begin
to realize that in spite Of the ''patri-
otto German Vessel sort of songs
the broad masses Of the Sasr are
firmly decided to vote for the Status
Quo.
The terror. the murders that the
Nasis are inflicting upon the Saar
population are not their only means
of attack They use another trick
to deceive the Ssarlsnders. They
say: I'VE are Germans. therefore
back to Germany" It seems q very
simple task, does It not, to ask the
Saerlander to vote for Germany.
Think of it. Hitler, Goebbels and
Hessl What a triol To the Scar
workers and peasants. to the small
business men and intellectuals, these
men stand not for Germany but
for a Germany of crimes. of muir
ders. of existing liberties. To
the Saarlanders, the two-year period
Of the Hitler regime means a regime
| ruled by a deSpotic, monopoly
| oapitalistic exploiting terror" and
the Ssar population viii have moth
ing of the Hitler State. These
statements are the exact sentiments
Of the people. for thousands upon
thousands Of the former N. s
members are breaking away from
the brown front"
Hitler in the Saer saws: "The
question to be decided upon Jan. IS
is not whether TO Join with Hitler
or not. but whether we are Ger
mans or not" II Is too apparent
that such an argument is devoid Of
any logic It is well known that
the population Of the Saar is Ger.
man, with few exceptions only
That Is indisputable and the Sasr-
landers know that, and they know
that for this they don't need 2
plebiscite; they can look at theil
birth certificates. But imagine Hit.
Ter and Hess calling themselve,
"The Germans Of Germans" II i,
well known that Hitler is an Aus.
trian and Hess an Egyptian, The
Saarlanders know, therefore, that
the question for them is: are We
going to go to Hitler's. Germany
where we shall lose all our liber.
ties, where our lives will be a con,
tinuous nightmare, where only ter.
ror, starvation and war are await.
ing us--or are We going to vote 70,
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