The daily worker., 1925-09-15
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. !. o'FLAHERTY

THE various socialist delegates to
i the recent congress of the Socialist
and Labor International, held in Mar
seilles, France, were chiefly concern
ed with the interests of their respec-
tive governments and not with the in
terests of the working class. One of
the amusing incidents of the congress
was the squelching Of Victor Berger,
who attempted to introduce resolu-
tion condemning the Treaty of Yer
sailes. This resolution smacked of
revolution to the capitalist ministers
and ex-ministers who led the congress
and Berger was declared out of order.
Whereupon Victor walked out, shout
ing, Go to He'll"
TT must not be assumed that Berger
4 introduced the resolution because
of left wing tendencies. Nothing of
the kind. 1t was his undiluted Ger
man patriotism that prompted him to
to do this, and also his consideration
for the feelings of the German-Ameri-
can voters in Milwaukee, who like the
Irish living in America, love to strike
heavy blows for the Fatherland at
safe distance.
GENERAL delegates claimed credit
~ for the Dawes plan, declaring
that the American bankers would ne
yer have been able to put it into OPP
Grafton without the help of the Eu-
ropean socialists. Morris Hillquit re-
gretted that the United States had
not entered the league of nations. He
thought the league should be demo-.
cratized and should include Germany
and Russia. Otherwise it was al
right.
ON the question. Of the Security
~ Pact, the German and French
delegates put up a united front. They
we're opposed by the British who had
to consider the interests of their en-
pire. French, German and British del
egates labored long, behind closed
doors, trying to reach a compromise.
One or two delegates pointed out that
the Security Pact was aimed against
Soviet Russia How those delegates
got into such a counter-revolutionary
conference still remains a mystery.
THE Russian mensheviki threw cat
L fits when the resolution on Soviet
Russia was introduced. 1t is signi-
ficant that the commission appointed
to frame resolutions on the Soviet and
Eastern question met in room in
the Town Hall and conducted their
deliberations underneath a large oil
painting of visit of the former czar's
fleet to Marseilles in 1892. The visit
was coincident with the granting of
the first French loan to the czar The
painting was the personal gift of
the car to the city of Marseilles.
M. TCHERNOFF, a Russian social
1Fl revolutionist, was infuriated by
the comparatively moderate speeches
on Soviet Russia made by Bauer of
Austria and Dan, the Russian men,
shevik Bauer talked a lot of non
sense about the gradual increase of
liberty in Russia, the only country
in the world where the workers and
peasants have any liberty. Tchernoff
raved about the Communist propagan-
da in Asia and denounced the Soviet
government for encouraging national
liberation movement. Jean Lonquet,
grandson OF Kari Marx, took the same
line on this question. He charged the
Bolsheviks with being in favor of
granting freedom to african sava-
ges."
T1HE representative of the Polish In
L dependent Socialist Party warned
the delegates that they were ignor-
ing the imperialist aims of the Po-
llsh and Roumanian governments.
This delegate was quickly jumped on
by representative of the Polish So
cialist Party who made a patriotic
speech, disavowing all imperialist
aims for the Polish capitalists. A
Roumanian delegate also took a mild
ly pro-Soviet position.
T EON BLUM, the French socialist
IL pleaded for common policy for
all socialist parties. Much tho they
Adetested the Communist Internation-
i, he said, It had the merit of single
olicy in all countries and the social
TH International must have some dis
Zinc. This statement did not get
4 far, the delegates holding that