The New York herald., 1920-12-28

Sembat insisted, and. incidently, this
Is a serious admission by a Left leader,
that Communism itself Is sufficient
warrant for the use of force to put II
down If 1t endeavors to interfere with
the nations welfare.
Sembat was lifelong friend of
Jaures, the great French Socialist lead
er, who was assassnated on the eve of
the outbreak of war. and arorsed the
fury of the extremists by declaring
that Jaures's Socialism was the very
antipo6e of that p~ofessed by Lenine.
Leon Blum. Socialist member OF the
Chamber of Deputies and author OF the
motion on behalf of the Right wing
to remain as the Socialist party. said
he agreed with the Communist theory
that "the Socialists cannot always
confine themselves to legal action" but
he emphasized that there was a DIFF
ference between that and the "clandes-
tine" power contemplated under Lenine's
conditions which he said state that
where there is a legal and an Illegal
organization the former shall always
be subordinated to the latter"
NJ. Blum said this invisible govern
ment probably was selected by the Mos
cow Government and not by the people,
as n legal organization would be. He
ad ded that the Socialists had much to
fear from n revolution without the
proper education.
NJ. Cachin compared the revolutionary
measures Moscow has imposed upon
the French Socialists to the raid OF
John Brown. the American abolitionist,
on Harper's Ferry, Va, in 1859 Some
great revolutions have been brought
about that way" he declared. John
Brown gave impetus to the movement
against slavery. He did the same thing
we want to do in France to capitalism
and to the bourgeoisie. If We enter
upon purely revolutionary campaign
in France we Will only be following
French revolutionary tradition"
The anti-Bolshevik delegates cried &c
Cachin, You are an opportunist." /"
when he declared that IL 1t was found
expedient not to sociallze the land In
Russia, but to divide 1t among the
peasants, the same thing could be done
in France.
Predicts Labor Troubles.
Paul Faure in his speech predicted
that with idleness growing next spring
would see serious labor troubles, and
possibly the unchaining OF a revolution.
despite the fact that the Communists
plans are not sufficiently developed for
such an eventuality. especially since the
Government had ample military and
civilian forces to crush a revolutionary
movement He advocated support OF the
Bolshevst platform In principle without
accepting Leninc's demands.
Compere-Morel asserted that the
future danger lay in the lack Of interest
Ia Communism by the agrarlan ele-
ments. more than 10000 of which were
ready TO defend their little patrifnonles
and the fruits of their labor in the field
by taking up rifles against Moscow
teachings.
But all arguments were swept aside
ruthlessly by Cachins street corner elo-
quence. in which he painted Russia as
a veritable heaven where labor alone
was omnpotent. Cachin assured hs
comrades that the possibility of an al
lance between Lenine and Ludendorff
of the German military faction was
gross absurdity. He said this amid tho
plaudlts of hree-fourths OF the dele
gates. lie urged that the Congress
Weld TO all of Lenine's demands and
issue an ultimatum TO bourgeoise
France that the Communist party
would not share the burdens of any fu-
ture wars save that OF the Moscow So
viets against the middle classes of the
Western nations.
IL Is understood that the first echeme
OF Cachn's Communists Will be to sub
jugate the General Labor Federation,
which IL already facing dissolution be-
cause Il INDUCED in politics instead Of
In puraly social reform meAfureA