The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 4, 1935, Page 6

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1935 Push the United Front RELIMINARY reports that about 300 delegates from local unions and Central Labor Unions of the American Federation of Labor will attend the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment Insur- ance which meets tomorrow in Washington. indicate These delegates have been elected in defiance of William Green's order to boycott the National Con- gress and to refuse the floor to local sponsoring com- mittee representatives. In addition, hundreds of other local unions have endorsed the Workers’ Bill in the recent period, and still others, unable to bear the expense of sending delegates to Washington, have delegated the A. F. of L. Rank and File Com- mittee for Unemployment Insurance as their proxies in Washington Following their deliberations in Washington, these delegates have already stated that they will elect a representative trade union committee to pre- sent to the national office of the American Federa- tion of Labor the demands of organized labor that William Green support the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. 'HE tremendous trade union support now being rolled up in support of the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance and the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill graphically indicates the growing revolt of the A. F. of L. membership against Official support given by the top A. F. of L. leader- ship to the relief-slashing program of Roosevelt and the denial of genuine unemployment and social in- surance. Early in the campaign for election of delegates to the National Congress for Unemployment In- surance, Green called upon all locals of the A. F. of L. to “be on guard against any attempt to create the impression that the A. F. of L. is in any way connected” with the National Congress, and declared that “a program of action will soon be sent to you for guidance in securing State Legislation.” Green's heralded program, when it arrived, vio- lated every demand of the A. F. of L. membership and of all workers for real unemployment insurance. Green proposed a scheme which is tantamount to a blanket support of Roosevelt's “actuarial” pro- Posals—a system of reserves eventually paid by the workers and with a long waiting period and nothing for the present unemployed. It is against just such raw proposals as these that the Naticnal Congress for Unemployment In- surance convenes tomorrow. 1 eh Preparations for this historic united front Con- gress have greatly accelerated the rank and file work in the trade unions. It should be made the basis of carrying forward still further this work, giving expression to the rank and file demands and pushing forward the fight for winning these de- mands. This spur to the united front against unemployment insurance schemes, against the Roosevelt inspired Wagner-Lewis “Reserves” Bill and for involving the members of the American Federation of Labor in the fight for unemployment relief should be made the basis of strengthening tine united front ail along the line—in the A. F. of L. and independert unions, in the Socialist Party locals and among the various unemployed groups. Carry forward the united front work of the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment and Social In- surance! Green's 100,000 Ballots NLY 100,000 ballots have been received at the office of the Daily Worker in its campaign to obtain one million votes for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. In almost all cases, these ballots have been ebtained by individual workers in their trade unions and mass organizations. Gratifying results, for instance, have been obtained through the efforts of the members of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, the Food Workers Industrial Union and the Marine Workers Industrial Union. The New York District of the Communist Party, however, oftered to obtain 250,000 votes for the Workers’ Bill. Up to Wednesday noon, only 12,000 have been received by the whole New York District. A letter received yesterday from a member of the Young Communist League in New York City ex- Plains why these baliots have not yet been received by the Daily Wor! “Why not send a batch of ballots to the different units of the Party and the Y.C.L.?” the letter asks. “I know that I can get many, many more signed than those appearing in the Daily Worker.” Undoubtediy hundreds of thousands of these ballots are still in the hands of workers. Every dis- trict must begin at once to get these ballots into the Office of the Daily Worker. Every unit of the Com- Mmunist Party and the Young Communist League must redouble its efforts to obtain all ballots now outstanding, and send these at once to the Daily Worker. Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party. ADDRESS... Anniversary ' SATURDAY, January 19, the Daily Worker will publish a special combined Anniversary and Lenin Memorial Edition. It is planned to make this edition one of the most comprehensive ever issued by the Daily Worker in its eleven years of existence. The readers of the Daily Worker, the organiza- tions which support the revolutionary movement, have reason to be proud of the publication of this edition. It is your great efforts—your response to our financial drives—which has enabled our paper to hold its head above the monetary waters. We call upon all our readers and friends to greet the Daily Worker on its Eleventh Anniversary. Make known by your testimonial that the arms of the working class are upraised in defense of its newspaper! At, this time when the capitalist class is making a mighty offensive against us every nerve must be on guard! Make your response a tremendous one, comrades! We call upon the Pariy units, the mass organi- zations and trade unions to achieve an unparalleled distribution of this edition all over the country. Let us determine to achieve a real mass circula- tion for our paper. Let us begin multiplying our efforts at once in a tremendous drive to double our circulation, to get thousands of new subscribers, For Unity in the Building Trades CONDITION that may result in the most serious consequences for the building trades workers in the United States, has developed out of the dispute sbetween sets of officials of the Building Trades Department of the A. F. of L. It may mean a split in all the unions and jurisdictional disputes | resulting in strikes not against the builders, but of one union against another. The Building Trades Department is now split wide open. Officials of 12 unions, refusing to abide by the decision of the Hutcheson-Green faction, have moved out of the A. F. of L, building in Washington and set up in- dependent quarters. will constitute the new Building Trades Depart- ment set up by the A. F. of L. Executive Council. Now we can expect that the officials of both | Sroups will oven a campaign in all locals. Each member will be asked “Are you with Hutcheson and Green or with MacDonough? (leader of those who split away). . . . UT what is underneath this split? Is it the issue of a fight against the construction companies who are openly promising a wage-cut? Is it because thousands of members are being stricken off the rolls for non-payment of dues? No! It is a fight over the $15,000 and $20,000 a year jobs and for Jurisdiction over the many smaller jobs undérneath them. It is a fight to determine which set of top officials will contro! building jobs. Officials of both groups have equally expelled militant members from the union, stricken the un- employed off the rolls, and have cooperated with the employers to make possible the continually worsening conditions for the workers. Coming at this time, when Secretary of the In- terior, Ickes, openly declares that increased building construction must be preceded by decreased wages, | when builders in all perts of the country have taken up this ery, the split policy of these top officials will prove especially serious. The reactionary officials in both groups will now competé with each other to obtain recognition from the employers on the basis of which can give them ‘the employers) the most favorable concessions. The workers in the 19 unions comprising the building trades department have no quarrels with each other. The issue before these hundreds of thousands is how to throw these corrupt officials off their backs and unite all forces for a powerful united movement of all building trades unions. Only one force can save the building trades unions from heading towards disaster—the growing militant rank and file movement in all locals. It is &@ movement to prepare struggle against worsening conditions, to throw out the reactionary officials, and build fighting unions. All building trades work- ers, all honest officials in the locals should fall in | line behind the program of unity of struggle and | of rank and file control.” The membership of all unions must be aroused to act over the heads of the corrupt ‘officials and defeat the splitting tactics of the top officials. Gag Rule ree Roosevelt administration is steadily increasing its dictatorial grip on the whole machinery of the government. Yesterday’s news reports indicate that the Democratic leaders in the House, act- ing under orders from Roosevelt, will fo:ce through @ measure which raises the number of petitioners required to bring a bill out of Committee from 145 to 218. The Herald Tribune describes this as “shutting off unwanted legislation.” Combined with Rooseveli's recent appointment of Donald R. Richberg to act asthe “Czar” of all Congressional legislation, the Rooseveit administra- tion now has a virtual gag rule on the entire pro- ceedings of Congress, with all alleged “free dis- cussion and legislation.” so adored by the liberals, completely wiped out. This, of course, is no surprise. Roosevelt has been steadily tightening the grip of the Wall Street monopolies on the life of the country, and this in turn requires that the whole process of government. be also tightened and concentrated. The violation of civil rights of strikers and mil- itant workers all over the country is one phase of the process of the advance of fascism. The steady advance of gag rule in the allegedly “free halls of Congress” is the improving of the ef- ficiency in carrying out the orders of the biggest and most reactionary capitalist cliques, for Congress itself is a tool of the Wall Street cliques. From the very beginning of the New Deal, Roosevelt has been speeding the process of fasciza- tion of the government. Today, he exercises a more direct domination of the government machine than any other president. He has virtual war powers. The Wall Street dictatorship, which has been care- fully wrapped up in the embroideries of “democracy is rapidly beginning to apnear through the cover- ing. More. and more, the capitalist processes of gov- ernment, cloaked by a fraudulent democracy, are taking on the form of fascist dictetership, ‘ t a as | = »>QWorker Greet the ‘Daily’ on Its | | social The remaining seven unions | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1935 | Party Life A Party Nucleus Cites Mistakes And Makes Plans UR unit buro read the October 6 letter on Oct. 30 from the C.C to the party membership, in which| was outlined various shortcomings | of the units regarding the flow of membership in and out of the Party. Discussions at three mest- ings brought forth many sugges-| tions from the comrades on recruit- | ing and activity. The following is | @ summary: | It was agreed that new members were often overloaded with assign- ments and others never got a feeling of being in the Party at all. Family life of some comrades prevents them from participating in real. activity, | and pressure from home sometimes | makes them drop out. Too many | | collections appear to some as forc- | ing new members away, as many cannot feel the need for funds for| | the Party and those unable to con- tribute are embarrassed. Too little! attention is paid to the way we speak to con ts. We must use simple language that every one can under- stand. Comrades in the’ unit need} to know one another better, more} activity would enable the comrades to get acquainted. The main shortcoming in our| work is that the life of our unit| does not reflect the life of our neighborhood. The unit does not make itself felt in the neighborhood. It only oceasionally issues a leaflet in the name of the unit. It does not lead the workers in struggle against landlords for improvements | of the house, for reduction in rent,| | nor does it lead militant struggles tor relief, coal, clothing, etc., and| | on school issues such as free hot lunches for needy children, free notebooks, free medical and dental care, eyeglasses, etc. And only) through such struggles can we win) | the confidence of the workers inj) the block, including those who are} under fascist influence and who at present shut the door in our faces. | One of our shortcomings is the | lack of organization in the shops in | our neighborhood. There is a city owned garage and repair shop which appears to have some sympathetic | | workers, whom we haven't ap- proached. Some children in the homes canvassed already read the| New Pioneer Magazine and want to | join the Pioneers. The Y.W.C.A. | has an International Branch where | contacts have not been made from) within or from outside as yet. Re-| | ports on canvassing are not com-| plete, sometimes not handed in and comrades do not observe the na-| tionality or state of living condi- tions of our contacts. On the basis of the albove, the} membership decided that there shall | | be an enlarged buro meeting with | three additional comrades to lay out | a plan of action for the unit to | follow. The balance of this report | | is in the form. of a resolution, the tasks are as follows: | 1) To find a means of increasing | the effectiveness of the Unemployed | Council and to use it as 2 mass base for our Unit activity. To establish) la shop nucleus in the city-owned garage immediately. 2) To urge the women to start | a women’s auxiliary of the Unem-| | ployed Council and to begin this | immediately, to demand school re- lief, free medical care, free lunches, | | playgrounds, etc. 3) To cooperate with mass or-| | ganizations in our neighborhood for | joint action and mutual growth, for instance to help to build the Ital- | ian branch of the I.W.O. in our territory. 4) To organize a pioneer tzoop with the help and cooperation of the Y.C.L, and I.W.O. 5) To issue more leaflets in the name of the unit and to make the unit a living force in the neigh- borhood. | Since there has been no fluctu- ation in th membership of our unit, our problem has been recruiting new members and to activize the entire membership. Once we have estab- lished a mass influence in the! neighborhood, we will recruit the/ more advanced element into the Party. Hereafter all comrades who go/| out canvassing should observe che following: How many children in the family? Which school they at- tend? Do they get free lunch and | milk? What are the conditions in school? Is the family on relief? In need of clothing, coal, etc.? What, is the nationality, trade of the worker? Conditions of the house? Need of painting or repair? Is it a firetrap. etc.? A complete report of the observa- tions should be handed in to the buro. To avoid all semblance’ of | apprearance of a social worker, no notes should be taken while talking to the family. It was decided that comrades in the unit belonging to mass or- ganizations or trade unions should report at unit meetings on their work, so that their experiences can be used. UNIT 3, SEC, 2, New York. | Currency Devaluation | Plans Made in Berlin BERLIN, Jan. 3.—Preparations | are being made for an 80 per cent devaluation of the mark from its present value, the Berlin corres- pondent of the Ceske Slovo com- municated to his paper. “Such reports of devaluation are increasing here in financial and industrial circles . . that a group, including notably Dr. Goebbels, has addressed an ulti- matum to Hitler demanding the devaluation of the mark in order to revive the export trade and to slash wages.” MADRID, Jan. 3.—The majority of the Madrid banks are refusing to accept German money. An in- quiry made at the Bank of Bilbao, as to the reason, received no reply. An employee stated that the re- jection of marks was due to the (have been going from house to | Of establishing quarters for troops,” . It is affirmed’ chaotic political and economic sit- uation in Germany, “We'll Have Everything Ready in a Moment, Darling!” fis abolition of capital punish- ment was one of the first acts | of the great October revolution of | 1917, A country in a state of revo- | lution, with armed enemies within and without: it was clear that the new power could only maintain it- self with the aid of force. But feeling triumphed over reason. The oppressed class, fighting for hu- manity, inspired with humanitarian ideas, discarded too quickly an in- dispensable weapon. It had to pay for this ill-advised act with streams of blood. But the Bolsheviki, who showed how to capture power, afterwards gave a splendid example | of how the revolution must be de- fended. i To capture power and at the same time to shatter the old State | force and defend the revolution | with all means became the touch- stone in the fight for Socialism. The Second International, which during the war carried out the Ppol- | icy of their own bourgeoisie, after the war carried on reconstruction on the old bourgeois foundation. | Whilst it continued to pay lip- | service to Socialism, it became the | defenders of so-called democracy, | conducted an unrelenting fight against all who stood for the dic- | tatorship of the proletariat, and | fiercely combatted the so-called Bol- shevik terror. It conducted this | fight in speech and writing, with police truncheons and machine guns, and, whilst not identifying itself with the white counter- revolutionaries, it fought side by side with them. In the name of humanity and in order to save the rule of the exploiters, it committed the greatest cruelties, which de- manded greater sacrifices in humen | life than a victorious revolution in Central Europe would have cost. | In the meantime world history | brilliantly confirmed the correct- | ness of Bolshevik policy. The prole- tarian revolution triumphed, So- cialism with all its cultural and material advantages is being built up before our eyes, whilst at the present time, in the whole of the capitalist. world, a devastating eco- | nomic crisis prevails which plunges the working population into eve> deeper misery and increases to the utmost the enslavement of the masses. This is especially the case in those countries where the Second International, by holding out the prospect of a so-called democratic Socialism, succeeded in restraining the proletariat from overthrowing the bourgeoisie. It is precisely in these countries that the proletariat has to submit to the most bitter bestial fascism and threatens the best elements of the proletariat with physical extermination. On the one side we see Germany, Austria and Spain, and on the other side the Soviet Union. This new by Limbach (NCREASED PROFITS ¥ } HANDS OFF THE o25 Rat U.S.S.R. world of free creative humanity which is arising proclaims in. flam- ing letters to all the oppressed and exploited: By this sign shalt thou conquer! Masses Learned Lesson Broad sections of the interna- | tional proletariat, taught by bitter | experience, have already learned the | correct lesson. They no longer allow themselves to be incited against Communist workers; they wish to| make common cause with them, | first in the immediate fight against fascism in the countries where fas- cism has triumphed, and in barring the way to fascism where it is about to go over to the attack—and in all countries for combatting the capi- talist. offensive, for opposing the | Preparations for new imperialist war and of the new war of intervention | against the Soviet Union. The Sec- | ond International is Placing the greatest difficulties in the way of this fight. So far we have succeeded | only in single countries in creating the first foundations of the united | fight. But these foundations are | being rapidly consolidated and offer | the best prospects for the future | fight, a fight which today is still aj} fight for immediate demands, but which tomorrow will be a fight on a broad front for the emancipation of | the working class and the whole of humanity. Proletariat Startied In this fight the international proletariat was startled by the shots | with which the murderer in the pay of the class enemy killed one of the | best Bolsheviki — Comrade Kirov, | The situation was lit up as if by a flash of lightning. Contrary to the | assumption that with the increased | successes of the proletarian revolu- tion a so-called pacification would ensue which would permit the revo- lution to weaken its means of de- fense, there is once again inexorably revealed the dialectical course of development: the more successes the proletarian revolution achieves, the more desperate efforts the class enemy makes to take revenge for the freeing of its slaves, to carry confusion into the ranks of the vic- torious army and to check as far as Possible the rapid course;of develop- ment which is leading to its final annihilation. It will be remembered that a debate arose on this ques- tion already before the Seventeenth Congress of the C. P. 8. U., and that Comrade Stalin maintained that the growth of Socialism.in no way im- Plied that the Soviet power could reduce its defensive measures. The proletariat in the Soviet Union and also the fighting prole- tariat in the other countries imme- diately grasped the situation and stood with a determination, devo- tion and unanimity such as the | World had never previously wit- |hailed by the nessed, behind the leaders of the revolution and their measures of | defence. In face of this firm will every hope of the counter-revolution is bound to be shattered. Blum Borrows from Rothermere In this situation the Second In- ternational saw fit to put forward Leon Blum, the leader of the Social- | ist Party of France—the Pariy which is carrying out a united ac- | tion with the Communist Party to prevent the advance of fascism—in order to defend the Russian white guardists who wish, by means of murder and sabotage, to prevent the victory of Socialism. Leon Blum borrows the argument of the Roth- ermere press and of the so-called} Riga correspondents, according to! which this murder was an act of revenge and has nothing to do with | politics. Personal revenge—we have heard this before. The same thing| was said on the cecasion of the} murder of Comrade Voroysky in| Lausanne and of Comrade Voikoy in Warsaw. Leon Blum had to learn from the columns of the Paris! “Temps” that in the case of Com-!| rade Kirov such personal motives | for the crime are quite out of the question. But at the same time the cannibal howls of the white Rus- sian press from Harbin to Minne- apolis, from Haparanda to Cape- town, must have taught him that the Leningrad assassination was rotten reactionary white guardist bands, not as an act of personal revenge but a sign of “Jiberation.” Does the Second International wish to repeat the game which it played in 1922, when it wished to | make joint action of the proletarias dependent upon decent treatment | being accorded the social revolu-| tionaries who assassinated Volodar- | | World Front |]———By HARRY GANNES -—— Nazis Nervous in the Saar | Majority Against Hitler ‘ But Why Some Waver } | NAZI fangs have already | been bared in the Saar, |and there is blood on them, | As the date of the plebiscite, |Jan. 13, draws near in the |Saar, the Fascists become |more desperate. Their rash |ness arises from the fact that con ditions in Fascist Germany are new becoming so bad, the Saar be- |comes the straw at which the | drowning Nazis grasp, hoping this will keep them afloat a little while longer. The shootings and riots provoked by the Nazis follow a deliberate | Plan, the kind usually resorted to by Hitler's agents when the objec- tive is to lead to armed struggles on a grand scale. This is the tactioe followed in Austria, to the assassi« | nation of Dollfuss. What makes the Nazis so des perate at this time? Hasn't Hitler |on a dozen occasions expressed his | utter and unshakable confiaenee in | the outcome of the plebiscite favor- jing return to fascist Germany? | Events, however, have occurred to shatter the Nazis’ confidence. The majority of the Saar population do | not want to be tied to the medieval butcher shop. of Hitler fascism, | which is the ruling force of Ger- | man capitalism. That is beyond question, no matter what the plebi- scite vote ultimately shows. What is still unclear in the minds of a large group of Saar voters— in other words, the chief unknown factor—is their feeling that though they do not want to return to Ger- many under Hitler’s rule, they fear if they de not vote for annexation of the Saar by Germany now they are forever blocked from moving in this direction. ua Latah IME and again, both the Commu- nists and Socialists, as well as the Catholics in the united front against Hitler and for the status quo in the Saar (that is, continua- tion of administration by the League of Nations as is now the case) have made it clear, the Saar is German territory. The only ob- jective of the status quo fight now |is to defeat Fascism in Germany, to prevent it from spreading into the Saar, and to continue the fight for the future annexation to Ger- many under different conditions. On the question of the future of the Saar (assuming a victory for the status quo), recent evidence tends to show that this margin of the voters is being convinced that their wish of future annexation to a free Germany can be realized, and that the main struggle for the lib- eration of the Saar peonle now is to defeat Hitler's designs. For ex- ample, the League of Nations has indicated that it will allow a second plebiscite in the future. on expres- sion of the wishes of the Saar people. Of course, though this is an assurance to these wavering elements, it is not required by the Socialists and Communists, whose united front will be continued, even if there is a victory for the status quo. It will be continued on the basis of the struggle for the ending of fascist rule in Germany and the merging of the Saar with a Ger- many under Workers’ rule, rises | f Ngee factor tending to reas- sure this section of the Saar population, so important on the question of the outcome of the plebiscite, is a recent occurrence in the French Chamber of Deputies (parliament). One of the Deputies recently queried the Minister of Foreign Affairs on France's attitude to a future plebiscite. He asked: “If the population of the Saar in its majority decides on Jan. 13 to maintain the present international regime, that is, the status quo, would this mean that it would lose sky and made an attempt on the! forever the right of some day re- life of Lenin? The leaders of the} Second International must be told| that twelve years have passed since then, twelve bitter years in which | the proletariat has got to know the methods of the Second Interna-| tional and also the methods of the} Bolsheviki. An “action” against fascism while at the same time un-| dermining the defense of the pro- letarian revolution in the Soviet | Union, that is an action for cavi- talism and fascism. And if the proletariat has not yet completely realized this, we must take care that it does. On this question there is no bargaining. On this question there can be only one standpoint: unconditional defense of the Sovist Union, defense of the revolution, that revolution which at the same time is a guarantee for the over- throw of reaction, the ovezthrow of capitalism and the victory of the whole of toiling humanity. Hands off the Soviet Union! Nazis Canvass Towns Of Frontier to Prepare Quarters for Troops PRAGUE, Jan. 3.—“In the fron- tier districts of Germany the Reichswehr quartermaster sergeants house to find out the possibilities the Prague Rote Fahne announces, as a result of information received from Warnsdorf. “Each house is to take in sol- diers according to its capacity; the minimum number is two... . The inhabitants have been told that there is going to be a war with France, and that since Ozecho- Slovakia is allied with France preparations must be made to pre- vent the advance of the Czecho- Slovakian troops. The houses must, be held ready to receive troops at any moment; the inhabitants have conversation on the subject will be looked upon as high treason. | “The quartermaster sergeants are | also busying themselves with the | lorries existing in the district. The |Tesult ofthis has been to cause a panic among the population in the frontier districts of Saxony. Am-_ bulance sections have been formed | (and young women have begun to be trained. It is a common sight to | see ambulance sections of 60 to 70 men passing by with stretchers.” A CORRECTION By a mistake on the copy desk, my name was signed to an article which appeared on page two of the Jan. 3 issue of the Daily Worker. This article, whose headline is en- titled, “Guarantees Against Frame- up of N.R.A. Elections Should Be based on a program presented by trial Union to the N. R, A. in Wash- ington. It was not my own article and I been warned, moreover, that any ¢ did not sign my name to it. } CARL REEVE, Demanded by Steel Workers,” was, the Steel and Metal Workers Indus-| Soviet Workers Hail Successes in Many New Year Meetings (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 3 (By Wireless). —At meetings scatiered throughout the Sovict Union workers in Soviet factories summed up the suczessful completion of the plan of the sec- jond year of the Second Five-Year Plan. The best shock-workers and he- roes of socialist labor, including many foreign workers, received val- uable presents and prizes. All clubs were crowded with workers and their families, and entertainments, bells, masquerades and rambles have been held continually up to today. Tens of thousands of Mus- covites met for New Year in the | Park of Culture and Rest, and the ‘numerous skating rinks were par- ' ticularly crowded. x ) turning to Germany? If, for in- stance, the Hitler regime were ended in Germany and the inhabi- tants of the Saar intimate their de- sire of being again allowed to vote, would there be a possibility of this- being done?” Laval, the foreign minister, an- swered: “As to the question which has been put to me about the situation | which would be created if the Saar population should in its majority decide in favor of the maintenance of the League of Nations govern- ment, I declare that if at any future time the population of the Saar should express the desire to be in- corporated with the German nation, it will not be France alone, but the Lezgue of Nations Council which will have to decide, by force of the sovereignty accorded to it by the maintenance of the status quo. Frence will not raise any objection in. any case.” ; ree tee oF COURSE, the French imperial- ists are not acting or speaking impertially in this case, They hope that future events may work to their benefit, and to the end of French centzcl over the Saf. But the same united front now work- ing to defeat Hitler's move, if vie- torious, can the more cecily defeat the French ruler’s appetite. The main, immediate, decisive question now is to deliver a blow to Hitler in the Saar, a terrific punch at a vital spot in the weakening, de- generate body of German fascism. * N JAN. 6, the anti-fazcist’ united front is to hold a monste: dem- cnstration, as the final rally for the ria of Hitler just before the vot- Our duty in this country, so far as the Saar is concerned, is still of the greatest importance. Cables to the workers and other organiza« tions in the Sear, telling them that the American workers are with them in their fight against Hitler fascism. would be great encouragement, Then we must be vrepared to fight with our Saar brothers against surprise attack of the Nazi any hounds, for the defensé of the anti-fascista,