The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16
MESSAGE FROM
MARTY, Who Led
FRENCH MUTINY
Greets U. S. Workers
Thru "The Daily"

Ddlly worker lnru Jne DAILY
Worker he speaks to the American
workers.
French sailors refused to fight
against Soviet Russia, refused toI
crush the First Workers Republic,
refused to fire upon workers who had
emancipated themselves from the rule
of capitalism.
They hoisted the red flag on the
proud battleships of imperialist
France, they sang the International,
they mutinied. And for this, punish
ment was meted out to them. But
the combined protest of French work
ers freed them.
It was we'll enough to shoot down
mutineers in 1917 in the great mutiny
which broke out during the war in the
French army, but the workers were
awakened in 1919, and it was not so
easy to carry out mass executions,
especially as these mutineers had act
ed in the cause of the liberation Of
the worlds workers.
The people Of Paris showed by
their votes that they wanted Marty
freed. The people of Paris elected
him scores of times to Office as a
sign of their solidarity until the gov
ernment no longer dared to keep
Andre Marty in prison. The article
which follows tells it's own story.
Perpignan,
Saturday, Dec. %, 1928.
Dear Comrades:-
l am sending you an article with
my photo for the daily Worker"
/ hope that it will reach you in time
for the first number.
You will give me great pleasure
by sending me the number in which
it will appear.
Be assured dear comrades of my
best and sincerest wishes.
ANDRE MARTY.
Address:
/ Andre Marty,
Hotel Central, Place Arago,
Perpignan (Pyrenees OrientaIes)
France.
Perpignan (Pyrenees Orientales),
France, Dec. 20, 1923.
Dear Comrades:
/ l learn with joy that on Jan. 10,
you will launch the "Daily Worker,
and am happy to send you my wish
es for success to the organ which
will defend the American working
class under the direction of the
Workers Party.
know how hard viii be your task.
In free America King Dollar reigns
as absolute master as the monarchs
/ OF our old Europe. Nowhere in the
world do the money powers display
more cunning and ferocity in their
fight against the workers. But no
where are the workers more ardent
and more tenacious in the fight.
Against the formidable trusts they
oppose enormous masses; and the
memory of those colossal strikes of
miners and railwaymen, those strikes
which lasted for months, is still vivid
in my mind; we are pretty small, we
Europeans, beside these formidable
movements. The "Daily Worker"
will serve as link and as an inspi-
ration to thousands Of wage-workers
who perish, who waste away, for the
greater good of capitalist combines.
| have no doubt of it's rapid expan-
sion, or of the enormous Importance
of the doctrine which it will spread.
1t will grow up quickly, l am sure,
and the spectre of social revolution
will soon haunt your selfish and
pleasure seeking exploiters.
All yes, / know: Against you are
all the forces Of finance, of darkness,
of police: you will vanquish them,
and you will be victorious under the
magnificent symbol of the sickle and
hammer surmounting the red flag.
Five and half years have already
passed since the time that thousands
and thousands of us, soldiers and
sailors, were distributed all along the
whole Russian coast of the Black
Sea and along the Roumanian border,
Without any REORGANIZATION al
most without any connection with
France, we were told terrible stories
about the Bolsheviki; and they want
ed to make us crush this magnificent
proletariat whose disarming was
awaited by the White Terror assem-
bled behind us so that its fighting
spirit could be drowned in rivers of
blood. But we had read the procla-
nations: "French soldierl French
sailor! You are a worker or a pea
santl You have before you workers
or peasantsl Before shooting look
and Think" And the French soldiers
did look and think, and did not shoot.
Like their American comrades at
Archangel, the regiments which had
mutinied had to be quickly led back
to the rear and had to be sent back
home And it was then that the
sailors saw along the whole coast, on
all the buildings, the red pennant, al
ways colored anew by the blood Of
the workers; and the sailors under
stood. On April 20, 1919, the day
after my arrest, at o'clock in the
morning, on Easter Day, the sailors
Of the dreadnaughts "Jean Bart" and
"France" solemnly hoisted at the
fore-mast the red pennant, and with
bare heads, and motionless, they sang