Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-08
FRENCH DEPUTIES
WILL INQUIRE INTO.
MAY DAY CLASHES
Marcel Cachin, Socialist, viii
lnterpellate Government on
Interference by Troops With
the Demonstrations.
BY William Cook
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Pub
fishing Coz
(The New York World
Especial Cable Despatch.O

Paris, May 1.-THE May Day cele-
brations in Paris, which We're wit.
messed by Germans who are part OF
the enemy delegation, and who came
in from Versailles, are to be the sub.
ject Of an Interpolation in the French
chambers of deputies when that body
resumes its sessions after the recess.
Marcel Cachin, socialist deputy.
who, it is reported was injured dur
ing the manifestations, will ask the
government about the interference by
troops with those making the demon
stration.
1t is pointed out here that similar
manifestations held all over France
were quite orderly because the troops
did not interfere and the workers
were given a free hand. The various
syndlcates of workmen who organized
the Paris manifestation publish calls
upon their committees to meet to de-
eide the course to be adopted to "ac-
cept the direct challenge made bv the
government to the workers"
brutality of Police"
Deputy Cachin, in an editorial in
the Humanite headed The Govern
ment's Responsibility" records what
he calls "acts of brutal violence by
the police and by mounted troops,
thanks to which scores of workers
went about with bleeding faces, 9TH
ers were more or less seriously in
Jured, while one lad was taken dying
out of the crowd.
The responsibility for all this falls
squarely on the shoulders of the chief
OF the government, who took upon
himself the decision to oppose a dem
onstraion by peaceful workers with
formidable cordons of police and
troops If Premier Clemenceau had
permitted the parade to be carried
out in the way scheduled, everything
would have passed off in quiet"
Ihen Cachin pays tribute to the
soldiers who We're called out to keen
order and who in many parts of the
city refused to harm their brother
cltaens, while the demonstrators
greeted the soldiers with cries:
Nlvent les poilus!"
Clemenceau Attacked.
Another socialist deputy takes rn
arms IN the newspapers against Pre-
mler Clemenceau. lillening the affair
TO a military battle, and saying:
Here he came out in battia in y
battle against the working class, This
sAIllster mischief-maker, who last
Eear, after having given away the
Chemln des Danes to the Prussfans
ana brought them again to the Rhine.
Valnly, and by lies to his subsidized
journalists, tried to claim a military
victory which in reality was brought
ABOUT by revolutions in foreign lands
ana by the sacrifice of soldiers"
me Figaro, in summing up the i'm
preston made upon the conservative
parties in France says:
Was MournfuI Day.
The day was a mournfliI one brt
Mlhout any other signification than
ttat Oh fights and disorder it was a
gay OF social hatred entirely lacking
tne grandeur of dignity. The day Il
can De stated, was not the dav of
workers. 1t was that of leaders who
II they meant to show the middle
classes their time had passed, failed
completely 'eu
!. The moral effort toward n revoIp-
.tonary movement and the attempt to
scare the imagination of simnletone
lalled, because French workers would
NOT iehd an ear, because the govern
Inent aid its duty and because tho
Iltizehs, no matter to what class thov
neIohg, showed themselves above tbe
threat and remained confident of
tilelf victorious country"