The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-11

great progress. 1t is far stronger
than it has been. 1t has a sound left
wing which we are supporting. What
was formerly the center" must join
the left wing in forming a common
left" in the true sense of the Com
munist International, and without
forming a fraction. The French
Party must capture the large indus
trial centers in the country.
At present its only stronghold is
Paris. This is important. In Brand.
ler's old Central Commute it used to
be said that they had everything else
behind them except Berlin and Ham.
burg. But then it turned out that
everything else" was also not behind
them.
The French Party now holds Paris
but has too little support in the prov
inces.
In Sweden, Comrade Hoeglund has
everything" except Stockholm. ]
don't want to draw any conclusions
from this; Hoeglund should do it him
self from various examples.
The chief task of the French Party
as present is to get out into the in
dustrial proletarian districts outside
of Paris. In our activity we must
take into account the illusions created
by the victory of the left bloc. The
French social democrats have tried to
be very cunningl They have not
openly formed the government, but
they will vote for the Budget, the oc.
cupation of the Ruhr, etc. Actually it
is part Of the Government. We will
be cunning too. We will say to the
social workers: this is not your gov
eminent, your people are not in it.;
why should you worry about it, it is
only a bourgeois government; why
should we not fight it together for
amnesty, for the evacuation of the
Ruhr, for higher wages, for the rec
ognition of Soviet Russia, for the
eight-hour day, ETC.? We must con-
duct the tactics Of the united front
skillfully. At the moment when the
social democracy is becoming officially
the third" party of the bourgeoisie,
there will be no development from
above. The moment when the social
democratic leaders enter bourgeois
governments, their combinations pre-
sent favorable opportunities to win
over the rank and file. While the
social democratic leaders are engaged
with their government combination,
favorable opportunity presents it.
self to get among the masses of the
social democratic and non-Party
workers and get them to combine
with us.
Then the Social Democrats will be
crushed between these two combina-
tons. The masses will become more
disconnected, unemployment will con.
tinue, the economic situation will
grow worse, and the Experts Re
port" will not help the workers. This
is an ideal situation for winning over
the best section Of the workers, par
ticularly in France.
Outside Of Paris.
/ The most important task Of the
French Party is to win the individual
centres outside of Paris and to ex
tend and strengthen the Party appa.
ratus. In Paris we have 5000 mem
bers and yet we have $4,000 subscrib.
ers to "Humanite"; and we polled
100000 votes at the elections. What
does that mean? A decided backward
ness in the Party organization. What
does this signify? The backwardness
of the Party from the point of view
of organization. We must accustom
the French workers to different meth
DDS of organization. The federation
of the Seine must in the near future
have $4,000 members. The most inn
portant task of the French Party is:
To wipe out the last remains of Eros.
sardism. What was formerly the
Centre" must boldly and sincerely
march together with the Left" The
French Party must utilize the excel.
lent qualities of the Partisan workers
to warn the workers in the provinces
at the moment when the leaders of
the Social Democracy are engaged
with governmental combinations with
the bourgeoisie. The factory-councils'
movement in France is still in its
infancy. People are too busy talking
about high politics" In the whole
of France there are only about 12O
factory councils; such progress can.
not be taken very seriously. Party
nuclei and factory councils are only
the first requirements of the French
Party. There is no country in the
world to which the policy Of the
Workers and Peasants Government
is better adapted than France. II
must penetrate deeper into the coun
try, into the peasant cottages; we
must have good Communist press;
. strong party apparatus; better inter
national connections. These are the
tasks.