The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-07
WORKERS MEET
IN PARIS FLAYS
WAR ON RIFFS
Hundreds of Socialist
Delegates Attend


PARIS, July 9 (By Mail).-over the
weekend of July AS great workers
congress was held here.
This congress, called by the com
mittee of action" represents the high
est point yet reached in the struggle
Of the French workers for unity
against the imperialist war in Moroc-
co and against the whole bourgeois
policy Of the Painleve government.
Riffs Break French Front.
With $50 credentials still to be veri-
ned, it was announced. last Monday,
that there were no less than 2,470
delegates present at the Paris work
srs' congress. These delegates repre-
sented 100000 workers.
1T is A PARTICULARLY STRIK-
ING FACT THAT OF THESE DELE
GATES 1916 WE'RE MEMBERS OF
THE FRENCH SOCIALIST PARTY,
the infamous action of whose leaders
in supporting the Moroccan war is
well known. THERE WERE ALSO
1876 TRADE UNIONISTS FROM c. G.
T. UNIONS. e., the General Con-
federation of Labor, affiliated to Am
sterdam, whose leader, M. Jouhaux, is
one of the most INSCRIPTIONS and bit
ter opponents of international trade
union unity. Some 343 delegates were
non-party or independent"
To have succeeded in calling a con-
gress of this character-for Paris and
district alone, let is be remembered
lis a great tribute to the work of the
French Communist Party and the left
wing trade union federation (the C. G.
T. ", who were instrumental in or
ganizing the committee of action.
"a Paris Soviet"
With justice one of the speakers
christened the congress ''the first So
Wet of Paris" For most of the thou
sands of workers present had been
delegated from their workshop, fac
tory, depot, or office. One after an
other, during the two days of the con-
gress, simple socialist and trade union
workers got up to say, in plain, blunt
language, that what they wanted was
UNITY to smash the Moroccan i'm
perialist adventure and to defend the
workers standard of living against
the government proposals for infia-
ton.
Speeches were made by outstanding
leaders like Marcel Cachin and Henri
Barbusse; but it was the continual
stream of rank and file delegates, ex-
crossing the real feeling of the mass
es. Ioften in hating and uncertain
phrases, some of them still with the
remains Of a patriotic faith in their
reactionary socialist and trade union
leaders, that gave the congress its
magnifciently impressive character.
Here was a real workers parlia-
ment. setting itself boldly up over
against the shams and mockeries of
the parliament of the bouregoisie.
Women, Arise!
A woman worker comrade, Klaweis,
who lost her son in the last war to
end war" said plainly:
I'VE must all of us take our stand,
men and women alike, against the war
ask the women particularly-we will
arise for the social revolution against
militarism and the bouregoisie."
Liabaers, the secretary Of the Bel
gian Garment Workers Union, fra
ternal delegate, made a long and
closely reasoned speech in favor of
trade union unity.
1T is a lie," he said, Ito say that
Moscow is responsible for the division
in trade unionism. The attitude of
the reformist and socialist leaders in
1914 was the underlying cause of the
crisis in the international labor move
ment after the war"
Trade Union Unity.
He concluded on a note of appeal,
which reused the congress to the high
est pitch of enthusiasm.
workers of France You are
faced with this alternative. from
which there is no escape. You will
either pay dearly for the error of your
divided forces, and will allow still
heavier chains of slavery to be rivit-
ed upon you. Or else, by tiade union
unity, you will be able to stop the
criminal war in Morocco, and then to
forge the weapon which the workers
need for their final emancipation"
SO ended a truly great congress-a
real congress of the united front from
below. the united front Of the toiling
masses. irrespective of section or ten
denotes.
1t was unanimously resolved to send
a strong deputation to the government
and a commission of inquiry to Moroc-
co.
What contrast between this meet
ing Of workers. full Of determination
70 end the Moroccan war, and the
meeting of the bureau of the labor and
socialist international in London, also
over last weekend.