The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 25, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 Daily .<QWorker WHTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY ULS.A. (SECTION OF C1 Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 “America’s Only PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. or ress: Daiwo: w York, N. Y. Mth and F D. C. Telephone: Nationa 7910. Midwest Burest South "Wells St. Room 708, Chicago, TI Telephone: Dearborn 3931 Subscription Rates: Gecieethe, case: 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, “0.7 Manhattan, Foreign and Canada 39.00, $ months. onths, $3.00. a THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1934 An Unholy Alliance VERY force of the Southern ruling class has been set into motion to force the International Labor Defense out of the Scottsboro case. Ben Davis, the editor of the Liberator, has revealed the brutal beatings and terror that are being used by the Ala- bama, authorities to force the boys to repudiate the I. L. D. From the start of the case the authorities have realized that the I. L. D. and the workers whom it mobilized in defense of the innocent boys, were the great obstacle that stood in the way of their plan to lynch them. The Negro reformists, because of their opposition to the mass actions of the LL.D. were by the logic of tne situation driven into the arms of the lynchers. By attacking the I. L. D. they weakened the one defense that could save them When Leibowitz found that the I, L. D. would not let him exploit the case for his personal ad- vantage, because the lives of the boys were their paramount interest, he took a road that brought him into an unholy alliance with the enemies of the Scottsboro lads, By attacking the .I.L.D., by lining up with the reformist enemies of the Scotts- boro defense, he was taking a course that was harmful to the boys. Today we find him and his Negro reformist friends working together wtih Governor Miller and Attorney-General Knight in a desperate effort. to drive the LL.D. out of the defense. The prac- tical result of Leibowitz’s trickery is that he has endangered the lives of the boys. His efforts to take over the case must therefore be defeated, if the s of the boys are to be saved. The lynch- S are cooperating with him because they hope to 1 the boys by removing the LL.D., the one force that can save them. HROUGH terror and false promises, the Scotts- boro boys are temporarily confused, but they will not be torn away from their allegiance to the LL.D. and the working class. Strengthen their faith by writing to them, telling them of the heroic strug- gles of the I.L.D. to free them. Urge them to stand fast, and not to be intimidated by trickery, threats or beatings. Their great ally—the working class, will save their lives in spite of all that Leibowitz and the lynchers can do. Write and wire immediately to the nine boys Heywood Patterson and Clarence Norris at Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Alabama. Andy Wright, Roy Wright, Ozie Powell, Olin Monigamery, Charlie Weems, Eugene Williams and Willie Robertson, at the Jefferson County Jail, Bir- mingham, Alabama. Worke: do not fail the boys, who count upon your help, Intensify your efforts to save them, Break the Textile ‘Truce’ HE latest statement of Francis Gorman, leader of the United Textile Workers Union, is one more desperate attempt to stave off the growing strike struggles in the textile industry. Gorman, in his new Statement, again praises President Roosevelt and his “truce” and attempts to hide from the rebelling textile workers the true nature of this truce. The discrimination, wage-cuts and_ stretch-out now rampant in the textile industry, Gorman tells the textile workers, is increasing because textile employers have “ignored and flouted the Presi- dential request for a truce.” The textile mill owners, he says, have shown “absolute failure” to enforce the Winant report and the decisions of the National Textile Labor Relations Board. Gorman engineered the biggest betrayal in the history of the labor movement of this country when he s out the general textile strike of 500,000 textile workers. Let us not forget that Gorman Sént these strikers back to work on the basis of the Winant report and after Roosevelt's personal plea that they return to work under its terms. Under the.N.R.A. textile boards, and under Roosevelt's personal leadership, the textile mill owners succeeded in ending the strike without granting a single one of the textile workers’ de- mands. They did not win recognition, higher wages, abolition of the stretch-out or shorter hours. They lost every one of their demands. Under Roosevelt’s order setting up the Textile Workers’ Assignment Board, in addition to the Re- lations’ Board, the textile workers were given whole- Sale blacklist, terror, increased speed-up and a wage- cut drive. The whole attack now being intensified, against the textile workers, is being carried through under the direction of the Roosevelt government and its textile boards. The defeat of the demands of the textile workers was carried through in a united front of the employers, the Roosevelt gov- ernment, the Gorman-Green-A. F. of L. leaders, and under the slogan of “industrial truce.” Gorman now tries to hide from the workers the MUNIST INTERMATIONAL? DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1934 real meaning of Roosevelt's i 1 “truce” pol- icy. He readily accepted this truce as soon as Roosevelt proposed it. He pledged the textile strik- ers in advance not to strike for six months against the wage cut, union smashing drive now being put through by the employers and the Roosevelt govern- ment. But through the textile wo! the Roosevel rkers are beginning to see Gorman “no strike truce.” The dye and silk workers of Paterson are ready to strike. The cotton garment workers, a closely allied are out in Allentown and Troy in several The woolen textile workers of Burlington Vermont, are on strike. In the South, cotton mills in Charlotte, N. C., Whitmire, S. C., and Roanoke Rapids, N. C., are already out. More are voting Strike in the Southern mills, The new strikes which are hitting the textile industry, bears out fully the prediction of the Com- munist Party that the textile workers would re- strike against the terms of the betrayal of the gen- eral strike by Roosevelt and Gorman—a settlement which gave the workers nothing. The textile strikes should be spread to every mill in the textile and cotton garment industry. The demands of the general textile strike can still be won. The textile workers should this time set up their own rank and file strike committees in every mill, and take over from the traitor Gorman the leadership and negotiations in their own strike. The textile workers, in spreading their strike against the renewed attacks of the employers and the Roose- velt boards, must take the present strike struggles into their own hands. Defeat the Curley Bill! O STONE is left unturned in the drive of the bankers and their puppets in city authority to slash the relief rolls and, in general, lower the “cost” of municipal gov- ernment at the expense of the masses. The Curley bill, adopted by the Board of Alder- men on Tuesday, is another thinly-disguised attack on the workers of this city, employed and unem- ployed. The fact that an ignorant, blatant, publicity- seeking ward-heeler introduced the bill in his own name does not detract one whit from the essen- tially sinister character of the measure. In making residence in the city and citizenship essentials for getting on the city payroll, the proposal sets up two classes of hunger. One class of hungry will be fed—they are citizens and live within the con- fines of New York City, Another class of hungry are non-citizens or live outside of the city—they, therefore, cannot be on relief projects which are patd for even in part by the city, nor can they be regularly employed by the city. The Daily Worker holds no brief for the well- paid Commissioners such as William Hodson, who resides in Westchester County. Gentlemen like Health Commissioner Dr. Louis Rice, whose home is in Connecticut. and Austen McCormack, Commis- sioner of Correction, who lived in Ohio when he was appointed by LaGuardia—these gentlemen will find the question of residence no problem, They will simply set up voting addresses in New York, as some of them have done, and keep their comfor- table country homes. But for the relatively low paid civil service employee who lives out of town it is a far more difficult problem. He cannot afford to maintain two residences, . . . bes thousands of municipal employees in the lower wage brackets who bought little homes in Westchester County, Nassau County and the Jer- sey shores—they will be affected by the bill. The thousands of workers on work relief in the city who are not citizens will be affected, But, of even greater importance, is the fact that this measure, if adopted, would set up a vicious, fascist, divisive precedent that would quickly spread to private employers. It would affect every worker in New York who does not happen to be a citi- zen. Such a bill, if the working class permits it to be adopted without protest, will logically lead to worse and even more discriminatory legislation. New York labor must not permit the Curley bill to beeome law! Already Isadore Begun, Communist Candidate for Comptroller, has pledged a fight against the measure. All workers must support this fight. A mass protest movement will-send this measure to the oblivion it so richly deserves. SRO rE TATE An Ironic Spectacle OTHING has so completely exposed the pretensions of Upton Sinclair than the manner in which he has crawled to obtain the support of Roosevelt. To stand in well with the Democratic machine he repudiated the fantastic promises of his EPIC plan even ‘be- fore the election. Now he beats his breast and howls that he is a good Democrat, begging the adminis- tration for help in his campaign. His reward for being a lickspittle was his en- dorsement by Jim Farley, who distributes the boodle for the Roosevelt machine, An ironic spectacle, this picture of the graft-tainted Tammany ward heeler and the saintly reformer, embracing for the glory of the New Deal and the tnrichment of the capitalist class. Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please scnd me more information on the Com- munist Party. ADDRESS.... | | Party Life | Exposures of Real Records |Of Boss Party Candidates Urged in Election Campaign i[X our election campaign, it is of | | great importance to expose the | | records of capitalist candidates on A NEW CHRIST IS RISEN! |the basis of what measures they introduced and how they voted on | certain important measures during | their terms in the City, State or | Federal government. Such infor- | mation is easily obtainable by re- | ferring to copies of their bills and | | to the legislative journals. I made a search of the record of Irwin | Steingut, member of assembly, New | | York State, and found material | which can be used excellently from platforms and in leaflets and in| certain instances (demagogic bills such as that for declaring a crim- inal offense any anfi-radical utter- ance) exposure through calls to ac- tion can be carried through. The capitalist carididates who come up for re-election issue dema- gogic slogans—“Vote for me on my record”—and they go ahead. to say that they in‘roduced a bill for Un- employment Insurance, for relief, for old age pension, etc. A careful reading of the bills they intro- duced invariably discloses that they are often opposite in nature than their names proclaim, or at- any ra‘e that these bills only begin to scratch the surface of necessary legislation. For instance, Assembly- man Cohen of the 28rd proclaimed his introduction of an anti-injune- tion bill which turned out to pro- vide for notice to the striking work- ers before the injunction was handed down. Here, in these bills, is a wealth of material that we can use. How shall we get it? Sane een IRST: Assign a good comrade for this work, one who is a stickler for exactness (we want no errors of quotation). Above all, it is necessary to get one who has “Political sensitiveness,” i. e., who sees the political importance to the working class of certain measures which on the surface appear to be unimportant. and Fifth Avenue Library, Room ords of Assemblymen and State Senators, ask for the New. York State Legislative Index, 1934 (or | 1933, if you want to get last year’s Turn to the section which | record). lists the names of, let us say, AS- semblymen. Under each name there is a list of bills introduced by him, titles only are given. There is a number at the beginning of each title which refers to’ another sec- tion of the Index which contains the summaries of each bill. Using this number, | and, if upon reading the summary, the bill seems important, make a record of ihe “printed number” ap- pearing at the end of the sum- mary. This printed number refers |a complete list of all the bill num- bers you wish to look up, list them State, 1934, printed numbers A479, A950, etc. urn this slin in at the entrance desk and the folders con- searcher with records and con- tents of the bills introduced by the Assemblyman in question, but, in order to get. wha’ is equally im- portant, yea and nay votes on cer- tain important measures, such as State Troopers’ appropriations, re- lief appropriations, salary reduc- tions of State employees, anti- racial utterances, etc., it is neces- sary to go to the legislative jour- nals for a list of those who voted yea and nay. Unfortunately, I did not make this part of the search and so cannot furnish precise direc- tions for going about it. However, full details can be obtained from the female librarian at the first desk left hand room. Since there are but two weeks left before election day, prompt action is necessary to get this valuable material. J, M. 'German Warship Flees Anti-Fascist Slogans on Amsterdam Whar f AMSTERDAM, Oct. 24.—The Ger- man warship, Schleswig-Hoistein, abrupily left here after'a short visit. Every night anti-fascist slogans and inscriptions had been painted on walls near the wharf, where the ship’st crew could scrutinize them all day long. Anti-Nazi leaflets were distributed to the sailors as they returned to the vessel, and every effort was made by the Holland workers and*anti-fas- cists to contact the men aboard the battleship and to explain the nature of Hitlerism to them. to cooperate with the officers of the ship by an intensive search for the propagandists. Nobody was azrested. The Second International Again Refuses : The United Front * (Continued from Page 1) to pass judgment as to who is responsible for the disrup- tion of immediate joint action of the two Internationals in support of the Spanish proletariat. We call: upon the workers of the United States to proceed themselves, everywhere, to the actual organization of united action fo support the heroic Spanish workers, and to redouble all-efforts to realize unity of action of the working class, overcoming ali opposition and all obstacles. Despite the sabotage of leaders who oppose the united front, it is necessary everyw'ere to intensify efforts tor By EARL BROWDER Spanish brothers! immediate joint action of Socialists, Communists, and trade unionists, including non-Party workers, and really begin to develop joint actions. The success of the first steps toward a united anti-fascist action between the Italian Bureau of the: Communist Party and the Italian Federation of the Socialist Party, in the United States, should encourage all other sections of the movement to renewed efforts along the same lines. Forward to united action in solidarity with our heroic Forward toward the united proletarian front against the capitalist offensive, against fascism and war! Second: Go to the 42nd Street 218, Sociological Division. For rec- | find the summary, | | to the bill number. When you have | on a Request Slip as follows: “N. Y. | taining co; of the bills will be | delivered to your desk. + eee (E above will provide the The Amsterdam police attempted | Burek will give the original drawing of his cartoon to the highest contributor eneh day towards his queta of 81,009. | his Socialist competition with Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, “del,” the Medical Advisory Board, Helen Luke, David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for Contributions received to the credit of Burck in | $60,000. QUOTA—S1,000. | Jack London Club of Plainfieid ..... +8 421 by Burck World Front |—- By. HARRY GANNES Dimitroff on the Saar | Hitler’s “Promises” | The Call of the Hour |MNNHE voice of Georgi Diml- troff, which was heard jaround the world in his ime perishable, heroic attack on Hitler fascism, is now raised jagainst the F.~ ist threats in jthe Saar. “The struggle in the Saar is the great battle between freedom and barbarity, between peace and war,” declared Dimitroff. We print below an interview given by Comrade Dimitroff to the Mose cow correspondent of the Seaare A. Sallater (gets cartoon) David Woogen . Jerry Jonson . Previously Received Total to Date .. | brucken “Arbeiter Zeitung,” om “Why the Status Quo:” “I AM following with intensest ine terest the struggle of the ‘peaple of the Saar. We Communists, as everyone knows, do not regard the status quo as the final solution -for - 17.50 30 | . $59.21 - $81.47 By VERN SMITH MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. Oct. 24.— The ninety million workers and farmers who will cast their votes in November and December for mem- bers of soviets are now “talking pol- ities.” An election campaign is go- ing on. Everyone is interested. Practically every adult will vote. Instead of millions of workers be- ing barred from voting by residence | or poll tax requirements or by lit- eracy tests or registration require- ments, as in America, here every worker, every farmer or housewife, | Student, or. Red Army man,.. ev one, in fact, over the age of eight- ; een who makes his living by useful labor of hand or brain, has a right to vote without regard to residence period, race, creed, color, income or education. Only enemies of the workers, such as former Czarist or White Guard officials, especially those who acted as jailers or police Officers, employers of labor for profit (though there are very few of these now), priests, criminals actually in detention or kulak sabotagers con- victed and living on probation for a certain number of years, the in- sane, etc, are denied the right to vote. The fact that such enormous numbers do voie, over 90,000,000 out of a population of 170,000,000 or | more than half, shows that the list | of workers’ enemies is after all | quite small nowadays. In the United States the proportion of legal electors to the general population is about one-third. Instead of barring from the polls racial minorities, as the Indians on reservations are legally barred in | America, and as millions of Negroes |in the South are illegally barred, the Soviet law makes particular Place for national and racial mi- norities, insisting that they shall have their representatives on all elected bodies, and on all election commissions, which are appointed by the soviets or executive commit- tees of soviets to arrange election meetings and watch the enforce- ment of election laws. The election laws are so drawn that national mi- norities are represented on all so- viets and congresses of soviets, if there are such minorities in the area concerned. It is particularly specified that each autonomous re- public, region or other area inhab- ited by a national minority shall send its representatives to the All- Russian Congress of Soviets, the highest: governing body, in accord- | ance with its population, just like | the Russian speaking areas. At the Seventh All-Union Congress, which | meets. Jan. 15, 1935, it has already | been announced there must be, for | example, 61 delegates from the Uz- | bek Socialist Soviet Republic, 15 ‘from the Turkmenian Socialist So- | viet Republic, 14 from the Tajik So- cialist Soviet Republic, etc. | Not only that, but in each elec- tion to village or city soviets, the election laws specify that whatever or wherever a group of people of a national minority live inside the ‘district mainly populated by another j nationality, the smaller group may have their own election meeting and elect their own delegates to the local soviet, provided there are enough of them to elect even one delegate. Foreigners Vote Instead of fore‘gners being abso- lutely barred from eleciions—a pro- | vision that excludes millions of workers in America from the right | to vote or hold office, these rights are guaranteed to foreign workers in the Soviet Union even though | they may still retain their foreign nat onality. The elector] basis, the franchise, Ninety Million Will In Soviet Elections Next Month a ¢ | of the Soviet elections, is therefore the broadest and freest in the world, with the largest percentage of the population involved and concerned in the campaign. But the methods of the campaign here differ nearly as much from the campaign now taking place in capitalist America as the social sys- tems of the two countries differ. Here there is no orgy over cam- paign funds, no colonizing of doubt- ful districts by hired voters, no rushing of spellbinders from one city to another, no voting of tomb- stones or telephone. directories, no barring of workers’ candidates on technicalities of pétition filing. no use of gangsters, no mad scramble between parties for trumped’ up is- sues. Money Doesn’t Count Money doesn’t count in the So- viet elections, campaign funds are absent—and far from the barring of workers’ and farmers’ candidates, there are no candidates except those of the workers and farmers. American workers are sure to wonder why there is any need of an election campaign at all in the Soviet Union, if there is only one class engaged in the election, and only one Party, They may ask, what can an election campaign mean if there is no one to denounce as a betrayer of the principles founded by our forefathers, if there is no hatred for mugwumps, desert- ers of their party, if there is no ruling capitalist class for the work- ers to rally their forces against at the polls, and no capitalists to seek by every means from persuasion to gangster’s bullets and kidnapping to prevent casting ballots for work- ers’ candidates? 5 If we go further and say that in. the Soviet Union there is not even any essential difference over the policies to follow, all being agreed on the necessity of socialist construction, of fulfilling the Sec- ond Five-Year Plan, on the peace policy of the Soviet Union in in- ternational affairs, and. on defense of the country if war, nevertheless, is launched against it, this feeling of wonder over the necessity of an election campaign must rise still higher. And when one points out that most Soviet elections are practi- cally unanimous, that there is no’ severe competition for office, then, indeed, it must seem to the work- ers of a capitalist country that an election in the Soviet Union is an unnecessary luxury. Masses Mobilized But it is not unnecessary, and everybody is intensely interested in it, and especially in the campaign that precedes it. In a word, the Soviet election campaign is the me- chanism through which that an- cient problem, never solved in any other social system, of the combina-; tion of democracy with efficiency) of administration, is solved here. It is also the mechanism through which the broadest masses are mo- bilized for active carrying through of the policies of the Five-Year Plan, etc., and by which they guar- aniee that their elected represen- tatives in the Soviets and Con- gresses of Soviets and all govern- ment positions, are aware of the policies of the masses, and capable of carrying them out. The main policies were decided on by discussions within the Commu- nist Party ranks, and by open meet- ings in which non-party and Party members jointly discussed plans prop?sed by the tried and recog- nized leaders of the Party, months ago. This discussion culminated Cast Votes last February in the All-Union Con- gress of the Party. It has continued | as to application in detail in in- numerable meetings of all sorts of, organizations, unions, etc., in Party | meetings, in public meetings of workers at factories, down to the present, and is continuing. It is a/ practical discussion, over details of | application in concrete situations, | and has been that ever since the! main line was agreed upon. | Careful Searching of Records Now in the election campaign, the | first stages consist of a “careful searching of the records of all elected members of Soviets to see whether they have understood the policies, and have carried them out. Each delegate to each Soviet is having his record drawn up, in the first place, by the Soviet itself. If he has been slethful or incapable, this will show. Particular attention is paid to whether the delegate has carried out the detailed instruc- tions given him by the meetings of workers and farmers who elected him, at. the time of his election three years ago, and in meetings since then. Each delegate now in the Soviets will have to face an open meeting of all those who elected him. In most parts of the country these meetings will be in November. Not! only his official record will appear for or against him, but he will have to report in full, and face all ac- cusations that may be made from the meeting itself. If it is clear from all this, that there is some one better than he, that person will be nominated and the. present. incumbent. will not be, or, if nominated, will not be: elected. The election meeting will give the newly elected, or re-elected dele- Bates specific instructions, not only as to general policy, but in detail about his work in their vicinity. The meeting may go on record, for example, fdr a new bathhouse, for new streets, for improvement of service in the stores—the delegate will have to work in the Soviet to carry out these instructions, or face the discipline imposed on him by the electors, which may go so far as to recall him even before his term is ended. The Soviet Union is al- most the only country where elected officials are. actually recalled. for failure to carry out the will of the People. The best are ciscted, and the Communist Party, the ruling Party, securely in power in a sense that no capitalist party is ever in power, wholeheartedly coopsrates in the! election of non-pariy workers, if| they are good material for the! Soviets. This is particularly true of the lower Sovists, village and city, where the most direct contact is made with the peopie. Remem- ber, the Soviets are not just legis- latures, but have the executive power as well. Even in such a big center as Moscow, the capital, the most important and largest city of the country, 826 of the 2,601 mem- bers of the city Soviet are neither in the Party nor in the Young Com- munist League. In very small local Soviets in smaller districts, where the percentage of Party members among the population is lower than in Moscow, non-Party members are in a majority. You are elected, in the Soviet Union, on the basis of your will and ability to do public service, your electors instruct you to carry out the policies they are all agreed on, and those are in fact the policies of the Communist Party.) The Party actually tries to draw |the Saar district, as little as the toiling masses of the Saar regard it in this light. _We Communists are for the complete emancipation of the Saar population, including the abolition of any government by the League of Nations. But at the present juncture the Saar popula tion has to choose between two pos- sibilities: Either to vote for the status quo or for affiliation to fase cist Hitler Germany. At the prese ent time there is no other pos- sibility. “The Saar is a German district, and must remain German. The Saarlander will always struggle for a@ re-uniting with the. German People, but they will not take up this struggle till the moment when it really lies in the interest of Germany and the Saar... . “Every Saarlander who.comes for- | ward for the freedom of the people of the Saar, for peace, and who re- | fuses to relinquish the hardly earned rights of the toiling masses, who really loves his people, who really |takes to heart the sufferings of jhis millions of brothers in Ger- many—every such Saarlander must 25 | stand energetically and determinedly against the affiliation of the Saar district to Hitler Germany. I have received many letters from the Saar and from Germany. They are all inspired by one thought: “All are against the Hitler fas- cism which has enslaved the Ger- man people in the service of the industrial magnates and the barik- ers. It is no wonder that the masses of the Saar district have no wish to be maltreated and beaten by Hitler’s bands, and incarcerated in concen- tration camps, Oa He “THEY do not want to be deprived of their rights, and to'see their trade union agreements destroyed, in the interests of Rochling, of Papen, Wolff, and Co. “They do not want their youth to be driven from the works and factories into the barracks, nor their wives and daughters degraded to second class human beings. “They do not want the Saar dise trict to be made the base for Hit ler’s war advance. “For if Hitler were to be success- encouraged to an even more un- bearable enslavement and exploita- tion of the German people, and the war-mongerers would be spurred on to further efforts. But vice-versa: A defeat of Hitler in the Saar sig- nifies a severe blow to fascism, and not only in Germany. ae ana “JITLER is endeavoring to lure the Saar population by a variety of promises. But it is a notorious fact that Hitler was extremely free with extravagant promises to the millions of the toiling masses in Germany. Task: Has even one of these prom- ises been kept to working youth, to the women, to the small peasants, to the middle class? “Is it not true that wages have been reduced by about 20 per it \by direct wage cuts and compu! contributions to funds, whilst at the same time the dividends of the lJarge capitalists have increased? “That in 1933 Hitler stole 690 mile ions from the unemployment ins surance? “That the social insurance benefit and service haye been reduced and destroyed? “Is it not true that in the first half of 1934 the amount of goods consumed by the toiling masses fell off by 6.9 per cent, even when coms pared only with 1933? ~ i “That the workers’ press, the trade unions, have been shattered? ~~ “That Ernst Thaelmann, the lead- er of the German working class, has been kepé in prison for almost two years, maltreated, and is to be brought up-before a court of blood justice? “That the number of persons con- demned td death and already exe ecuted is increasing steadily? : “That prisoners are continually being ‘shot whilst attempting to es- capt’? “If all this is so—and: incontest= ably it is—who cannot but realize that affiliation to Hitler. Germany signifies: “ a“ “Slave. wages, forced labor, the horrors. of the concentration camps, the fettcring of all intellectual life, the. rule of the executioners, the madness of war. i oe Sy “The freedom and the future of the Saar peaple lies in its own hande. a Aas “What must be done? “How aré the masses of the peopl to prevent the coming of fascism, barbarism and slavery? It is com- prehensible that political differences exis: among the people of the Saar, that the Communist, sozial-demo- cratic, and Catholic werkers have differences of opinion. But I am of the opinion: vt se “The call of the hour is united action against fascist enslavement.” Contributions recetved to the cialist competition with’ Del, Mike Gold, the Medica] Advisory Board, In the Home, Jacob Burck Devid Remcey, in the Daily Worker | drive for $60,000. Quota—s500, Ruth Texis .. David Woosen .... non-Party. people into this public work... Total to date ..... ful in the Saar, fascism would be § credit of Harry Gannes in his So-. .