Evening star., 1920-03-07
WAR Of CLASSES
strongly URGED
French Socialists to Nego-
tiate With Germans-ShoW
Few Signs of Moderation.
BY WILLIAM e. NASH.

BY WILLIAM r. NASH.
Cablegrum to The Star and the Chi
cago Daily News. Copyright, 1920.
PARIS. March 6.-The congress of
the French socialist party a Strass-
burg ended its discussions in way
which shows the revolutionary ma
tnre or the majority. After withdraw
ing from the second internationale.
which had expressed dissatisfaction
with bolshevism. the party refused to
join the third internationale organ
ized by Lenin in Moscow. But 1t is
to enter into negotiations with the
German Independent social lists with
view to a new conference of the par
ties interested in the third interna-
tionale. This is considered equiva-
lent to a clear expression of sympathy
with bolshevism.
The congress which lasted for sew
> eral days. brought out in an unmis-
taxable manner the divisions within
the party itself. Jean Lonsuet.
grandson of Karl Marx and man
who heretofore has been known as
one of the most radical extremists in
France. was actually attacked for
moderatism by the communist NJ.
Loriot and was reduced to siding
with the leader of the right. NJ.
Renaudel. BY vote of 1000 against
404 the dissenting deputies who had
DcPn erected 10 tne tndfnDeT Oil tHt
i-bolshevist ticket were excluded
from the bosn of the party. A mo-
tion for reconstruction along lines of
class warfare was carried only by a
narrow majority
Advocstes Class Warfare.
Daniel Renoult reported to the con-
gress a plan for the future organiza-
ton of the party. Some of his words
are instructive. He said:
..Tha French socialist marty de-
clares that the second internationale
no longer corresponds to the revolu-
tionary situation existing in the ma
jority of the nations 1t comprises
1ngmen of the world. Opposite to it
stands the third irternationale or
ganized in March, 1919, which calls
for a clean-cut program of class var
fare such as has been formulated by
the communist manifestos and by the
Amsterdam resolution of 1901. This
is an indispensable, principle for all
socialist movements and all socialist
action.
ITO this now ;nternatonaIc adhere
the Russian bclsheviki. the ma jority
of the Italian. socialists and various
factions of Sweden. Denmark, Bull
garia. Germany. Hungary. America
and. Great Britain. In sympathy with
the German independents who since
1918 have remained true to revolu-
IlOHATy tIdOltIOnS, tne FRENCH SOCIAL
ist party declares that 1t cannot re-
main in an organization where Ger
many is represented only by social
lists in league with the kaiser or
counter>revolutionari like Philip
Scheidemann and Gustav Noske. In
sympathy with all the movements for
the emancipation of the proletariat
we socialists wish to proclaim our
solidarity with the Russian revolu-
tion. We repulse in the most ensr-
getic fashion any plan of participa-
tiop with the bourgeois government
such as was seen during the war.
Things Now Called For.
More than ever we now call for:
81 Direct taxes on revenue and
capital based on the conscription of
IN socialization of capitalistic mo-
a"x Organization of transportation
Hy the state under the direction of
Nsppnsible technicals.
y Municipal control over the
lodging problem"
1Its is reported that Citizen Grum-
pncH. q deputy from Alsace. objected
~tb this speech on the ground that it
lpaAs He declared that every word
spoken in Strassburg was listened to
aftshtively on the other side of the
Rhine and distorted out OF all reser1-
nance 10 ltS original import. French
socialists, he said, ought to be care
fhl about the way in which they re-
newed relations with the Germans.
The Echo de Paris recounts an
amusing incident that happened to
the socialist deputies at Nancy when
they were on their way ba * to Paris
Entering the station restaurant about
. PIN, the delegates ordered dinner.
No waiter or waitress responded a nd
finally the manager, a demobilized
soldier, came to announce that his
personnel would not serve men who
had declared themselves friends of
the Germans. He then asked them to
leave the restaurant