The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-24
Not Reds But YeU01Os Defeated

premature joy capitalist press in reporting the
of the first ballot of the French elections hope based
upon what called the defeat of the reds The reds Of
the Communists nobody longer speaks of the mem
hers of socialist parties 'reds'
the the elections boiled down admission
that the Communist candidates have received votes than
they did in the last election four years and finally there
that in the significant sections the Communists hold
overwhelming lead the yellow candidates OF the socialist
The election other words defeat not for
the Communists, but for the social-democrats.
The particular nature of the defeat of the yellow candidates
important Leon Blum leader Of the socialist party heav
lily defeated by the Communist candidate Ducos will now be
forced show his coors to the working class by asking for sup
port of the capitalist elements in order to stand chance of
election and if he does this then still thousands of workers
will go to the Communists.
The worngclas districts the suburbs of Paris the
Communist candidates 233 900 votes against
socialist party candidates This admitted be indication
of the direction taken by the industrial working class.
agricultural department of the Loire the Communist
candidates received 10000 against the $4,000 for the
candidate of socialist party and this must be taken to have
significance the important question of the direction taken by
the peasants of France.
1t is admitted by the capitalist agencies probable
Communists will be elected the final ballot
ting to the Chamber Of Deputies and that Comrades Cacn and
who prison and Duco who being sought
the police will be elected to the Chamber of Deputies The
for the Communist ticket they concede will probably be
bigger than 1924 when French comrades elected
twenty deputies the first ballot The peculiar election law and
the extraordinary number of candidates in the field
the discrepancy in the first ballot this year.
these reports accurate they thatthe French Com
muns Party making Roadway winning the of the
French workers from the traitors who have long held them
their reformt Illusions only to sell them out to the capital
For this and not with illusions that the demo
cratic elections of capitalist state the power to
the Communists participate in bourgeois elections
country Of the world the socaled socialist parties
struggling preserve the faith the working class in the
capitalist state and thus they the most dangerous enemies of
the working class Upon the parties of the Second international
the capitalist of the various countries of Europe depended
period the world proetaran
revolution In the United States the party of Hquit Berger
Onea and the Reverend Thomas only thrng for the oppo
unty to the Wall Street capitalists in the that Nosk
Vandervde Macdonald and the Leon Bums the capitalist
class at time of high tide of working class action
The defeat of the most dangerous servants of the capitalist
class within the ranks of the workers. shown by the first ballot
the French elections victory for the working Only
when these traitors have lost their deude the
will be possible for the working class mobilize strength
for the overthrow Of the capitalist class.