The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-17
'PA|NLEvE MADE
FRENCH PREMIER,
CRISIS STILL ON
Predict New Cabinet
Will Soon Fall
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leVe LnlB AFTERNOON accepted the dp-
pointment as premier, and immediate
ly commenced an attempt to call
cabinet.
The appointment of Painleve mere
ly prolongs the crisis in French fin
ance and politics, as Painleve belongs
to the same coalition which made
Herriot premier. and a PainleYe cabi-
net will met the same opposition in
the senate that caused Herriot's down
fall.
cailIaux After Job.
Reports that Painleve had tele.
graphed Joseph Caillaux to come to
Paris and would offer him the minis
try of finance were confirmed when
! it was learned that Caillaux left Ma
mers at noon today for Paris. He
announced he would accept as minis
ter Of finance if offered the job.
Predictions are made that any cabi-
net formed by Painleve, who is
member of the radical socialist party.
will not last a month. Painleve had
previously declined the thrice repeat
ed offer of President Doumerge to
form a cabinet, as he knew stormy
time awaited him.
Socialists in Bourgeois Coalition.
The socialists, who have been the
bulwark of the bourgeois rule Of
France by the French bankers and
industrialists and WHO have allowed
foreign capitalists to gain greater con-
troll over French finances, belong to
the majority block of the chamber of
deputies. The socialists hold 104
seats, the republican socialists as, and
the radical socialists, who are really
the conservative socialists, 149 seats
All are upholders of bourgeois rule.
Painleve did not accept the premier
ship until he had been assured by the
socialists that they would support his
bourgeois cabinet, and participate in
his government. Under Premier Her.
riot, the socialists. altho they sup
ported the premier, did not accept
places in his cabinet.
The socialists made a deal with
Painleve that they would take three
positions in the cabinet in return for
their support of the new ministry.
Crisis Merely Prolonged
1t is being rumored that Herriot
will be offered the portfolio of for
eign affairs in the new cabinet. The
senate has already made it known
that it will not support a left bloc
government, and thus the present
crisis is being prolonged
Further illegal Imitation.
The senate is to meet this after
noon to "legalize" an increase in the
paper franc circulation by four bill
lion $500, O,OOO). This will cover
the present illegal imitation which was
recently exposed. The officials of the
Bank Of France refused to issue an
other weekly statement, which it is ad.
mitted will show still further illegal
circulation. and threatened to close
the bank, unless the illegal issue was
"legalized."
America Owns Ruhr.
M. Colrat, who was a minister in
Poincare's cabinet, said in a state
ment on the control of France by in
ternational bankers by means of the
Dawes plan: 1.-THE Ruhr now belongs
to Americans and Englishmen. 1t
would be folly to install a govern
ment in France which might cause
prejudice to Anglo-Saxon invest
ments."
Chamber for Imitation.
PARIS, April 15.-An effort by Dep
uty Louis Marin to have the four bill
lion franc increase law Of the Bank
OF France declared Illegal was reject
ed by the chamber with a vote Of 3sS
to 1874.
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