The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-30
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Africa, the French Communist PARTY nut IN the
young sailor, Dumoulin as candidate OF the Work
ers and Peasants block in the municipal elections
at Ivry, the workers suburb of Paris called the Red
City"
Dumoulin is serving four years sentence. as q
leader OF the 1925 mutiny in the Mediterranean
fleet against Frances imperialist Moroccan cam
palgn The Red suburb returned Dumouln by big
majority, and when the election results were an
nounced, thousands of workers. waiting in front of
the Marie, broke into the International and then
went marching through the streets of the town sing
ing revolutionary songs and shouting their demand
for amnesty.
The French Communist Party attaches great i'm
portance to the election of the Young mutineer It
is gesture that will catch peoples imaginations-
particularly the lmaginations Of the young workers
and peasants serving in Frances army and navy.
and help In arousing sentiment not alone for am
nesy but also in favor of the Partys anti-imperal
list campaign against on revolutionary China
and Soviet Russia.
The 1925 mutiny is still fresh in the minds of the
French workers. The uprising, spreading from YES
sci to vessel of the fleet sent into Mediterranean
waters to assist in carrying on the Moroccan cam
palgn, conceded with the great anti-war confer
ences held throughout France by the Workers and
Peasants United Front Committees of Action
An account of the Marseilles Peasants and Work
ers Conference giving wierd picture of how sailor
delegates slipped away secretly from their cruisers
and came before the immense audience to pledge
the solidarity of the class-conscious men in the navy
with the other sections of proetaran France against
the governments imperialist ventures.
This movement among the sailors was distinctly
revolutionary in character.
1--WE refuse to be the accompces of the bankers"
declared the sailors, stationed at Toulon in letter
to the Committee of Action. eve have heard YOUR
slogans-the sailors understand the slogan of fra
termination"
Already our comrades of the Strasbourg and the
C1urbet have taken stand against the war The
violent repression which they have had to suffer
will not hold us back 1t will only strengthen us in
our decision
Whatever the cost may be, we shall find way
to impose our will upon the militarst assassins
I'VE belong with you; you will help u.s. 1t is
through the determination of the exploited prole-
tarla and of the enslaved soldiers and sailors and
the oppressed colonial peoples-it is through our
common action that we shall be able to put an end
to the war in Morocco"
AT the time of the mutiny 20-year-o1d Dumoulin
was quarter-master of the Courbet. where num-
Der of sailors killed and wounded in the strug-
gle with the officers. Dumouln took leading part
IN events on shipboard, and then later made
splendid showing at the court-martial by which he
was condemned
Of course Dumouin will not be freed immediately
because OF his election. But, in the meantime his
election will give fresh impetus to the amnesty and
the antl-war campaigns. The French government
has frequently testified of late to the effective
ness OF the present Communist anti-militarist cam
pagn with its definite class base and freedom from
the bourgeois pacfist illusions of the ant-militar
ist campaigns of the pre-word war period. Their
latest testimony to the effectiveness of Communist
antwar tactics is the imprisonment of seven of the
leading party members on charges of treason be-
cause of their anti-war propaganda.
AS Sarraut recently expressed it in an attack on
the Communists delivered in the Chamber of Depu-
tics:
'The anti-militarist campaign of 20 years ago
failed to penetrate the morale of the country
but the present anti-militarist action Of the Com
munist Party is infinitely superior in its method"