The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-16

What Now in the Sarr?
We Are in the Fight
THE voice of blood spoke"
was Hitler's comment on
the Saar as he prepared to
shed the blood of those who
did not speak in favor of re-
turn to fascist Germany.
Con tinuing the battle
against Fascism in preparation for
the new conditions, both the Social
lists and Communists in the Saar
called upon the workers throughout
the world to come to their aid in
the face of open savage threats of
revenge from the NaziS.
Drawing attack, the anti-fascist
united front is calling for protest
/ demonstrations against the crooked
plebiScite and the terrorist threats
which rolled up 80 per cent vote
not for Fascism, not for Hitler-but
| LOT a TSburn 10 Germany.
| An example of the effectiveness
of the threats OF reprisals made
against the Saarlanders if they
should vote for the status quo is
shown in the results by cities. In
4 Voelkingen, the town owned and
controlled by Hermann Roechling,
tie richest iron king in the Saar,
chief Nazi treasurer and slated for
/ highest Nazi honors. the vote was
10 to l for return to Germany.
Roechling had planted his spies
throughout the steel mills. He had
financed the organization Of Nazi
troops. He had been able to
threaten more effectively than in
some other sections of the Saar.
The vote in Sasrbruecken for ms
lance, was to l.
pOECHLING, after the voting and
IN before the count was announced,
was the first to threaten, in the
most detailed way, what would hap
pen to the anti Fascists.
He is now followed by Nszi Min
lister of the Interior Prick. Prick
/ declared that the Germans in the
Saar who voted for return would
now have a free choice to Join
the Nazis or-he did not go into
details on the alternative This is
a clear indication that the Fascist
butchers do not have too much con-
f1dence in the political beliefs of
the 90 per. cent who voted for return
to Germany
Even the French imperialists, who
| put no obstacles in Hitler's way in
the matter of regaining the Saar.
according to Associated Press, de-
clared that the plebiscite voting was
unfair and conducted in an atmos-
phere of terror"
The "Arbeiterzeitung" Workers
Times,) Communist organ in the
Saar, right after the announcement
of the plebiscite result stated: "A
new stage of our fight begins"
IN FACT, the end of the plebiscite
will see the beginning OF wider
and deeper struggle in the Saar
against Fascism. 1t will be asked:
Isn't there fundamental contradict
ton here, a victory for return TO
the Germany of Hitler, and yet The
perspective of more embittered
fight against Fascism? That con-
tradiction is at the basis of the OUT
come of the Saar plebiscite. But
the component elements of the con-
tradiction which went towards
piling up a big vote for return to
Germany, and yet contained within
itself mass hatred of fascism. will
now shift with the solution of the
future status of the Saar
Overpoweringly the desire of the
Saar population to return to Ger
many for the moment became the
dominant factor But now that
that issue has had its expression,
the more fundamental factors of the
class st uggle. of imperialist con-
flicts will work to the surface and
become the determining issues.
For the moment, the Hitler gov
eminent will make the most DEM
onstrative use of the Sasr to bolster
up its chauvinist campaign, and to
speed its war clans The tonic
effect will be extremely transitory.
The body of fascism. after the spree,
will slump back into worse state
of dependency. Being within Ger
many That is-ue viii b. dead in t',e
Saar, but the issue before all Saar-
landers. will be the newly gained
Nazl misery, concentration camps
and gallows.
FRENCH imperialism has blocked
the frontier on the Saar border.
The French bosses do not want the
Sasr enemies of capitalism to flock
into their country. They prefer
them to be finished off by Hitler.
The French capitalists, it will be
remembered, turned back Spanish
revolutionists who fled from certain
death az the hands of the Spanish
fescistc. We must demand the right
of asylum for those to whom it
r's's certain death or mutilation
to stay in the Saar. Our task in
the United States against Fascism
in the Saar begins now in real