The New York herald., 1921-10-02
FRENCH COMMUNISTS
MAKEHEADWAY With
LABOR UNREST RIFE
Class Hatreds Also Being
Stirred in Hope of Polit-
ical Capital.
MANY VOTES BEING WON
Governments Intervention in
Roubaix Strike Proves
Blow to Red Flag.
MANY VOTES BEING WON

special Gable to THE New YORK HERALD.
oopvnohf, 1891, oy THE New York HERALD
New York Herald Bureau,
Paris. Oct 1.
French Communists are seizing upor
every phase Of Frances difficulties te
ouild up class hatred. and they will
win larger representation in Parlia.
ment next year unless some solution
can be found for the labor difficulties
at Roubaix, Turcoing, Lille, and espe.
cially in the Vosges textile industries
There is strong possibility that the
extreme left group will be dangerously
reinforced even before the next elec.
tions.
This, however, must not be taken as
signifying that France is turning Bol.
shevist, for the French brand Of Com
munism with all its temperamenta
clamoring frequently is really little
more than a demand for social reforms
and higher wages such as won public
sympathy in America twenty years
ago. The only danger lies in the fact
that the Communist leaders here pro.
fess that they are q part of the Mos
COW Internationale, and as the Mos
COW Internationale spells RED" revo-
luton. those who are trying to solve
the problem must move warily to pre-
vent aggravating this element un-
necessarily.
The Governn ent's Intervention on be-
half of the workers in the strike area at
Roubaix has had the effect Of turning
q affepftop auav from, rayoluffov, ~ idaa g
as despite the waving of the red flag by
Cachin, Frossard and other Communist
leaders the sti ikcrs themselves are con-
vinced that the Government Is anxious
to help them If a common ground can
be found.
Sixty thousand strikers at Turcoing
paraded the streets Monday and Tues
day without O. single revolutionary cry
or the breaking of a single factory win
dow, although they were harangued by
the deepest Reds" who urged them to
suppress the richer classes and assert
their proletarian supremacy
The real Bolshevik here, however. ex-
pect to regain some of their lost power
Sunday. when Andre Marty, Communist
mutineer who had the great idea of
Bolshcvixing the whole French navy,
will be candidate for reelection to the
Chamber. Marty "or three years has
been serving a twenty year sentence for
treason. The Reds have painted a won
derful word picture of how they intend
to batter down the prison doors as soon
as Marty's victory is known.
But even II Marty is elected It will
not be a Communist victory. as other
groups under inspiration of a league
founded to protect individual rights de-
cided last week to go to the aid of the
marine engineer on the grounds that
punishment could not be inflicted for a
purely political crime unless every one
with similar ideas. including the editors
of Communist newspapers, were like
wise imprisoned.
Another instance of how the Com
munists are playing upon public SYM
pathy is to be found in the expulsion
from Frances teaching staffs last week
of Socialist named Martha Bigot
Nine. Bigot signed a protest against
recalling the class of 1919 to the coiors
for the occupation of the Ruhr Valley.
She explained her action by the fact
that she Is a pacfist and altogether de.
MED any Bolshevist connections. The
Red leaders have taken up her cause and
are bowling for the proletariat to show
its power by demanding the reinstate-
ment of Nine. Bigot just as though she
were one Of tine protegees OF the Com
munist party