The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-19
HERRIOT WANTS
POUND OF FLESH
FROM GERMANY
Communists Alta c k
Dawes Plan
Especial to the Daily Worker.)

Revolutionary workers of France con-
sidered him and his cabinet agents
Of the bourgeoisie and would oppose
him vigorously as the left bloc made
its debut.
Marcel Cachin, Communist spokes-
man, tore Herriot's speech into tat
tiers, branding the Dawes report,
which Herriot accepts without reser-
walton, a plan to enslave Europe.
First the bankers are laying their
hands on Germany" said Cachin, "and
Frances turn will come next. The
Dawes report cannot solve the repa-
rations problem"
While Herriot mouthed about free
dom in general and peace for the
world, he said nothing about the ex-
ploitation of subject peoples by the
french imperialists. Herriot talked
about the evacuation ct the Ruhr aft
or the French capitalists took their
pound of flesh out of the body of Ger
man labor. "Why did you not say
anything about the evacuation of
Syria and Morocco" demanded Ca
chin.
The Socialists, true to their role Of
crawling time servers, supported Her.
riot but on the question of break
with the Vatican Socialist deputy
attacked Herriot for proposing to
open an embassy in Moscow and to
close one at Rome.
The new Herriot government is a
middle-of-the-road one much like the
Ramsay Macdonald Labor" rule of
England, and both seem determined
to stuff the Morgan-Dawes Preparations
plan down the throat of Germany.
Herriot goes to England Saturday to
confer with Macdonald.
Herriot and President Doumergue
made their official policy statements
to the chamber of deputies by begin
ming with a hypocritical "concilia-
tory" smile at Germany and saying
that France would not move out of
the Ruhr until Germany had given in
fact all the guarantees provided by
the American financial experts" who
assisted "Hell-an'- Maria" to put over
Morgan's little plan for running west
ern and middle Europe as one branch
of his banking business.
Not Far from Reactionary.
Frances new government asserts
its severest opposition to the German
lpationalists and industriausts, but
takes care to safeguard it's own ma
tionalists and industrialists by reiter-
ating its right to reparations." The
social reformists, Herriot and Dou-
mergue, are only little less obvi-
ously attentive to the demands of the
French and American capitalists who
are still the power behind the
throne Cor chair" now than their
predecessors, Millerand and Poincare
Herriot is little shrewder in read
ing the public psychology. Like Mac
Donald of England, he is not really in
terested in the workers and peasants
of his country, but losses them few
social-reform promises like scraps of
food from the banquet table of the
financial lords whom he is really serv-
ing.
Already 1000 Germans have been
allowed to return to their homes in the
occupied territory and 600 Of the 500
expelled German customs officers
have gone back to their jobs. The
French and Belgium Ruhr railway op-
orators have hired $4,000 German
workers to run the lines.
Another SocIal-Democrat.
The new French government is OBJ
posed to the German nationalists and
Industrial lords, who in turn cordially
hate Herriot. The German democrats
seem on the whole pleased with the
change in French affairs. Herriot is
not too reactionary nor radical for
them. He is a business man. But
German Communists, of course, see
thru the futile pretenses of Herriot
and know that he will try to force the
enslavement of German workers as
well as French.
The German industrial leaders want
the masses of German workers to pay
the reparadons, while France seems
intent upon forcing every German fac
tory to meet a specified industrial OBJ
legation. The German workers will pay
anyway besides giving the German in
dustrial barons their profits, unless
the growing Communist movement
succeeds this time in sweeping away
the debris of the social democracy and
the cheap beer-celar nationalist plots.
Premier Herriot protested again
that his cabinet was one Of "concilia-
ton" toward Germany and that his
minister OF war, General Nollet, was
an offense only to the extreme nation
alist militarist Germans.
Recognize Russia.
Exploitation of the colonies may
have been put in the program for the
imperialists, or perhaps II is just
phrase anyway. Reputation OF any
notions OF conquest, however, was one
part OF the statement OF foreign pol
icy. Reduction OF the standing army
was another. Recognition OF Russia
with protection OF French interests" is