The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-20
By A. LOSOVSKY.

WHILE the French reactionary
r." press was wrecking its malice
against the U. S. S. R. and on the
very day September 19th) on which
the gilded youth of the American
bourgeoisie paraded the streets Of
Paris as Representatives of the
American people" the congress Of
revolutionary unions of France open
ed at Bordeaux.
''ShOOt Them Down.
Both the campaign against the U
S. S. R. and the arrival Of the Amer
lean guests" served the French
bourgeoisie as an excuse to deaI
fresh blows at the revolutionary wing
of the labor movement, which has al
ways been the true and tried ally OF
the Soviet workers. The intensity OF
the hatred felt by the French bour-
geoisie to its native Bolsheviks may
be seen from the following extracts
from the bulletin of "Agence Poll
tique ct Financiere" Of the 18th Sep
TENDER (organ of financial circles):
"On this day (September 18th
patriots will also carry revOlvers
which they will empty with pleas
ure into those rascals who, unfold
ing the red flag, are the symbols
of theft, slOth, mutiny, cowardice
and treachery. Until we take adj
vantage of some meeting of Com
munists and sewers of discOrd to
shoot them down numerically to
the merry music of bullets, these
scOundrels will poison our exis-
tence."
The hatred of the French bour-
geoisie so wildly expressed in this
leaflet, finds it's expression in the
pressure on the working class such
as is now being carried out by the
whole machinery of the State of
Third Republic The greater the
growth of the revolutionary move
ment, the more repressive measures
are showered upon the revolutionary
workers, who are arrested and SEN
fenced on the most trivial excuses.
Almost the entire leadership of the
Communist Party and the Unitary
General Confederation of Labor is
imprisoned.
Freedom of Press"
On the eve of the opening of the
Unitary Congress Z French Commun-
lists were sentenced between them to
80 years of Imprisonment for declara-
tons in the press: Comrade Bellage,
10 years; Gay, years; Michelet, 6
years; Monmousseau, years; Klam-
amusse, years; Coutela, years;
and Josef, years. Such is the free
dom of the press in the French re-
public, in which any corrupt scoun-
drel can write what he likes while an
honest worker r?sihs ten years in
prison for expressing his views.
The General Atmosphere.
1t must further be borne in mind
that the Congress proceeded in an
atmosphere of an ever-developing
economic attack by capital and the
naturalization of industry at the ex-
pense of the working class, and that
TIE bourgeoisie, by means of lock-
outs, discharges and black-lists, were
squeezing the revolutionary workers
out of the factories, in which work
they frequently had the assistance of
the reformists, and trying to exploit
the naturalization of industry and
the economic crisis to get rid of "dis-
tarbing elements"
And, finally, it must be remem-
upon its labors after the congress Of
bered that the congress embarked
the reformist Confederation of La
Dor had been held, which had come
forward in the most hostile manner
against trade union unity in France
and at which Leon Jouhaux, the agent
of BRAND and Poincare, renowned
the sins of his youth and swore that
for mature persons" nothing but re-
formist tactics wee acceptable.
Surrender of RefOrmists.
After the congress of the Reform
list Confederation of Labor was held,
the famous congress of the Amster-
dam international in Paris, at which
the reformists of all countries have
thrown down their masks, appeared
before the French and international
working class in their true light.
Here the struggle against the bour-
geoisie was abandoned in favor of a
desperate fight for fat jobs.
The Contrast.
Thus the congress of the Unitary
Conf federation of Labor met at the
moment in which an extremely tense
situation had been created both at
home and abroad, demanding the ut
most possible clarity in the settling
of questions if the toiling masses of
France were to receive proper lead
The agenda and discussion showed
that the Unitary trade unions are to
be distinguished from the reformist
unions in practice as we'll as in policy.
The agenda was as follows:
Report of executive commits
sion.
2.-Trade Union Unity and the