The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25
CABINET OF
FRANCE AGAIN
MEETS DEFEAT
Communists Try to
Force Elections
lspeeIaI q rhe paIIy workerl

PARIS, France, Nov. 2s.-The Pain
Ieve cabinet Unsigned last night after
defeat Of it's tax program by vote
Of 27s to 275. Though the vote was
not announced as vote of eonfid-
ence, the defeat Of the governments
financial program created an impasse
that made the continuation Of the
PaineIeve government intolerabIe. AS
soon as the Defeat was announced
Painleve declared that he would pres
ent the resignation Of his cabinet,
which he did Instantly by receiving
the designations Of all his ministers
and presenting them to President
Doumergue.
After a short discussion with the
president, Paihleve. left the Elysee
palace and Doumergue summoned M.
de Selves, president of the senate,
and M. Herriot. president of the cham
Der Of deputies. to discuss with them
the selection of new premier.
Communist Votes Decide.
In the first balloting on other parts
of the program Of the government, the
Communists, who have 26 deputies,
refrained from voting. But when
article five containing one of the
moratorium features came up, they
cast their votes against the govern
ment thereby forcing the resignation
Of the cabinet. The yellow socialists
who had served the most abominable
aims Of French imperialism in Nor
Deco. and Syria and who had aided
the government imprison Communists
were furious at the defeat OF the gov
ernment and sormy scenes followed
the voting
Communists are hoping that the un-
stable conditiDns of France and the
fact that thereis no dominant group
in the chamber capable of maintain
ing a government will force the dis
solution of thee parliament and there
by bring about new elections. In a
political campaign they feel that at
this time the situation is such that
the working masses can be aroused
against all the capitalist parties. The
hectic conditions in France may be
utilized to mobilize the workers be-
hind the Communist Party in a con-
certed assaults upon the rule of the
capitalist class.
BRAND cor Poincare.
The next cabinet, which will be or
ganized with the object of pacifying
the conflicting elements among the
capitalist parties, may be headed by
either BRAND or Poincare. The form
er, many times premier of France,
may try to create cabinet by bring
ing the right and left elements of the
bourgeois together on a common pro-
gram to avoid elections at this par
ticular time. He has been trying to
get support from the right and still
maintain enough left elements to en-
able him to organize a government.
On the other hand Poincare, former
premier of the bloc rationale, (the
industrialist group may be able to
bring the left socialists, who are loyal
servants of the capitalist class, into
bloc with the right in order to try to
overcome the Communist menace.
In either eventsthe government can
be only temporary. as the conflicting
elements within the political groups
in the chamber will produce one crisis
after another until a new chamber is
elected with one group sufficiently
powerful to maintain a cabinet domin-
ating. Whether this is possible only
time can tell.
The Communists are well pleased
with the situation as they view the
series Of crises sas indicative Of the
breakdown of bourgeois parliamentar-
ism