The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05
By ]. BERLIOZ.

L
Communist Party OF France, which
took place at the end of June, was
held under the shadow of the cam
paign of suppression on the part OF
the French government. A number
of those attending the Conference,
among others the reporter on the in
ternational question, Comrade Ber-
nard, had long been sought for by the
police; others, as Comrade Semard,
are again to be placed behind prison
bars.
Wide circles of the French working
class, even including certain elements
in our own Party, do not yet know
how to estimate correctly the often
sive of the Poincare government.
Even if the proce dings of
the French G vernm en- t of ma
tional Unity" against the revolution
airy portion of the working class and
it's organizations are intended to pre-
pare the ground for the elections next
year, it must nevertheless be recog-
nized that the offensive against
the working masses has a far wider
objective; i. e., to deprive their class
organizations of their leaders and to
weaken the resistance and fighting
power Of the workers. By this means
the bourgeoisie hope to achieve three
things: l. the carrying out of in
dustrial naturalization, 2. to enforce
the new military laws, 3. to prepare
for war on the Soviet Union.
The National Conference Of the
Communist Party Of France was
thoroughly alive to the war danger.
Both the opening speech of Cachin and
the report of comrades Semard and
Monmousseau, as well as the report
of Comrade Bernard and the speech
by Renaud Jeane, in which he clearly
and concretely analysed the coming
military laws, which are being rem
dered even worse, if possible, by the
counter-proposals of the socialists,
clearly Illuminated the present situa-
ton and characterized all optimism
as dangerous.
The National Conference was there
fore perfectly unanimous that an en-
ergetic campaign must be conducted
against the danger Of war. 1t was
in this spirit that it adopted its de-
cisions: mobilizing Of the working and
peasant masses for defence of the
Chinese revolution; approval Of the
line of the Comintern with regard to
the policy towards the Kuomintang;
emphatic condemnation of the OPP
position in the C. P. S. u, as it's frac-
tional activity can only damage the
unity of the Bolshevik Party, which
unity, however, is the precondition for
the fight of the Soviets against en-
circlement and against the attacks of
the capitalist powers; organizing Of
the working class defence against the
capitalist attack on wages; fight
against the new customs tariffs and
against the further growth of mill
tarism. In all these resolutions the
main attention was directed to eX-
tending to the Russian Revolution the
necessary help.
Nevertheless it must be said that
the National Conference, although it
provided so much theoretical clarity
on this question, was too theoretical.
Too little was spoken of the practical
work which is to be carried out in
the various districts of France, in the
workers organizations, among the
peasant masses, and also among GER
tain sections of the middle class who
are realistically inclined. The re-
cent experiences were not adequately
analysed, as for example the reduc-
ton of the wages Of the miners, which
was carried out almost without resist
ance, and also the defeat in the textile
workers strike of Roannais. Fur
Their, sufficient concrete instructions
were not given regarding the methods
of realizing the united front, for
capturing the big factories, for
strengthening our trade union work
and for the organizational activity of
the Party.
The Left errors of the former
leadership still hamper the Party, in
spite of the new course followed since
December 1925. Nevertheless, the re-
pOGL Ol COnlIduG IHOIeZ, WHICH gave
an exhaustive analysis of the politi-
cal and economic situation and laid
down the next tasks of the Party, in
dictated the way of approach to the
masses. The Party members are
rallying more firmly round their
present leadership, which has their
complete confidence. The National
Conference unanimously approved the
line of the present leadership, which
comedies with the line of the Comm
tern.
The opposition was as good as non
existent. Not district had sent OPP
positional delegates. There were only
a few Ultra-Left present who, through
the mouth of Comrade Calzan, raised
oppositional demands, among others
the convocation Of an extraordinary
World Congress Of the Comintern for
the discussion of differences-as if
they had not been sufficiently dis
cussed in the C.P.STT and in the