The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
RED FORCES OF FRANCE OPEN DRIVE Every Factory A Com munist Citadel, Is
 Battle Cry TO OPEN BRANCHES IN ALL INDUSTRIES Take Lenine Cue And In- sist Upon Member
 ship Of Workers NATIONS RAILROADS
 FIRST OBJECTIVE Strike To Be One Of Weapons
 Tn Battle For RevOlu- ton
TO OPEN BRANCHES IN ALL INDUSTRIES
NATIONS RAILROADS
 FIRST OBJECTIVE
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 PARIS, Sept. 14.-"Every factory in France must be a communist citadel" That is the watchword of the new or ganization of the "reds," who hope to overturn the present order of society in western Europe and reorganize it on the lines of soviet Russia.
 Taking their cue from Lenin, the French communist leaders do not De- lieye that a membership, however large. in a communist society will De able to bring on the revolution for which they are working. They insist on regular participation of all the mem bers of the party in actual labor, especial!y in forms of labor where there gre large numbers of men and women employed. In factories, stores, offices, the railroads. In the shipyards there has been established a communist "cell," or nucleus of a branch of the party According to Humanite, the official organ of the party, each of these unclei is d '"listening post for the revolutionary forces"
 Rely On Propaganda.
 If comprises the adherents of the communist party working in the same factory. or other place where labor is emplosed. The duty of each communist is to .sather in tbe same group all the :. < fanat hisers at hand Special aftens lion is paid to propaganda in the great enterprises on which the life ot com muIiities depends, such as the rail- roads. electric and water supply ser vices, the docks. There are "city com mittees'' for large towns, local com wittees" for the smaller towns and outlying villages. committees Tor de- nartments. committees for larger sec tjons of the country and, above them all, the central committee of the party, which has it's seat ill Paris.
 There are nearly thirty communists in the chamber of deputies. So far their efforts have been of the spec tacular kind, such as provoking flst battles in parliament. but they have m important part to play in the poll tical arena. The chief point on the communist parliamentary program is Ihe reinstatement of the thousands of railroadmen who were dismissed on ac- co,,nt of their participation in the May Day strike of 1920. These men are nearly all active members of the com munist organization and are regarded as the best of propagandists because they have actually joined the fight ing ranks of the Reds.
 Ex-Minister of Public Works La , Trocauer, in recent debate in the chamber, openly charged Marcel Cachin, communist leader, with having organized railroad station committees" in every important railroad center in france. The communist railroad organ, the Railroaders' Tribune, not only de clared that this was fact, but 1t explained that these committees were taking very important part in the propaganda.
 ''The task of the members of the committee" it said, lis to teach tke railroad regulations to all cur comrades who happen to ignore them. These regulations are our best weapon. It is in their appicatiOn that the revolu- tionary spirit will spread"
 What it means is that on the govern Inent railroads here the men have cer- tain well defined privileges, one of which is the right to strike on condi- tion that the strike does not last longer than twenty-four hours. The ''reds" advocate what they call the "btad strike" that is quitting work for twenty-four hours, going back for an- other twenty-four and so on indefinitely. The strikers thus could attain their ob- iect without risk of dismissal.