The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-24

children do they want to kill the mo-
theirs of grief?
"Favoritism has again made its an
pearance. One has an arm that is too
long, and he doesn't go. Others fix up
some sort of graft. place is found
for them, and they don't go. It's the
honest ones who are good to send out
there, and to die there.
I'VE read PHumanite every dav.
and we thank you with all our hearts
for struggling so bravely against this
senseless war in Morocco. Let those
who have interests out there 60 and
defend themselves!"
The Workers and Peasants
Congress
Individual protests of his nature,
with their consciousness that French
Imperialism, and not the Riffs, is the
enemy are extremely significant as
signs of the process of revolutioniza-
ton that is going on among the pro-
letariat of France, but it is in the
great Workers and Peasants Con-
crosses being held turnout France to-
day that the true mass character Of
the resistance is revealed. These con-
crosses are being organized by the
central and regional committees OF
action, the united front committees
formed to organize the united resist
ance of the proletariat to the steadily
increasing taxation of workers and
peasants, the capitalist onslaught up
on the living standard of the French
worker, to fascism, and above all, to
the imperialist wars in Morocco and
Syria.
The Workers and Peasants Con-
crosses held, so far, in Paris, Lille,
Beziers, Marseilles and Bordeaux, at
which Communists, socialists, mem
bers of the the c. G. T. and the C. G.
T. u, non-party workers and peasants
were represented, have already
rallied, in the face of the opposition
Of the government, police and yellow
socialist leaders, some three million
workers and peasants around the slo-
gans of united proletarian resistance
and defeatism in the war: an imme-
date peace, independence for the Riff,
the evacuation of Morocco by means
OF determination at the front, by boy
cotting the transport of war material,
and the preparation for the 24-hour
general strike to consolidate and de-
monstrate the strength of the pro-
test.
The initial congress, held in Paris
in July, created a very deep impress
sion turnout the country, and in ad-
dition to its success in rallying the
non-party workers Of the district
around it's slogans, was especially eff
fective in arousing numbers of social
list workers to a consciously critical
attitude toward their treacherous or
cowardly leaders. Since the congress
many letters have been sent in to the
committee of action by socialist work
ers, in which the failure of the social
list chiefs to carry out the mandates
OF the congress-the demand for the
immediate cessation of what amounts
to military dictatorship and the recon
vening of the chamber Of deputies.
Se~' "1S bit1Sity CflllCiZeQa
Alliance Of Soldiers with Workers
and Peasants.
The Bordeaux congress, which took
place last month, and at which 71s
delegates represented 278,O00 workers
and peasants. is noteworthy for the
predominance Of the peasant element.
Side by side with the lockers and sea-
men OF Bordeaux, the metal workers
and railroad workers, sat fishermen
from Bases Pyrenees. vine-growers,
and large delegations of workers and
peasants from Lot-et-Garonne and
Gers. In the course OF the discussions
the common interests of workers and
peasants as against the exploiting
class were brought out in unmistak-
able terms.
At this congress the third element