The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-08

Colonial Regiments refused--as did those of Arch
angelic fire a single shot on the Red Army
Then you thought about sailors because they were
not in direct contact with the Russian Revolution
With them it was not longi
April 10th it the Battleship Protet (Andre
Marty was officer; April goth in Sebastopol the
squadron mutined the biggest battleshps as France
Jean Bart Vergniaut Justice, hauled up the Red
Flag the sailors landed and demonstrated with the
workers. April 9th in front of Odessa it is the
battleship Walbeck+Rousseau, on board of which /
was imprisoned which in turn Joined the revolt
And then the Buirix-in every ship without single
exception there revolt.
The fire gained the Mediterranean Sea In Con-
stantinople May 1919, in front of the terrorized
officers the sailors of the Battleship Jean Bart
demonstrated in the city singing the Internatonale
and the Young Guard. At tea in Greece it was
the oattleship Guichen which mutined The officers
were only able to maintain control of the boat with
the help of colored soldiers
At Toulon, France June 18th the Flaosbin Prov
ence refused to start out for the Black Sea and
turned its guns toward the Naval General Head
quarters. For two days the sailors held meetings
IN the city and We're masters of the situation. It
needed two regiments of cavalry and thousands of
morse gendarmes to preYent them from opening
the Arsenal Navy Prison.
AT Brest, Cherbourg, Rochefort Bzerta the
same manifestations were repeated till August and
the government handled them only by sending tb-
sailors back to their families.
1t was with these that you were trying to
crush the RUSSIAN Revolution? Really, Mr. Marshal
IL you had been at Odessa and tried to conduct
things the way Clemenceau and Poincare did i -
probable that today would not be writing polemics
WIN you, but you would be in the Pantheon Insult
ing by your presence the memory of Jean Jaures.
one thing we know and that is your declaration
was inspired by your government of big cantal and
a against tha ID
believe that the time of Gallifet. Theirs and
oInef butchers OF the Paris Commune is passed and
IL IS useless for you to try to initiate them And as
you ADDRESS the French mperialist menace Whose
representative you are) to the u s. s r rema,nbor
mat we are tens of thousands of ex-fighters from
Russia and the Black Sea who will right now dopbIo
our efforts to arouse the workers and peasants
solhers and sailors, against the war that YOU are
preparing at the order of the French capitalists and
the so-called socialist government And tho dow ~
which you will again try the crime of 1910 ' IN
40 everything with the entire support of our Cow
mufisr Party, for this time the soldiers ami sailors
WIZ not only refuse to march against their Rnssia
ntoenefs' but will put their in the service of
the workers and peasants in order to crush NV social
war. y oii' oioou ana
Receive, Mr.. Marshal, my anti-mitarist and ro,,
dictionary salute go" ie
ANDRE MARTY.
communist Deputy in the French Parliament
now IN jail in La Sante Paris
letaran front The vanguard of the WORKING close
looks with both pride and hope upon it's G q r
DIS upon the augury of victories to come in the
patues against fascism and the boureeoisia ya+
tnlS IS not the way the G. c. L. is looked upon Inv
the Amsterdam crowd f ~
helasing TO recognize the legality of the dissolu
ton OF the G. c. L. announced by band Of tra;fors
and scouting the idea that tl1e Iead;r,r o. - -