The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-15
Mr.. Thomas: Imperialist Agent
Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secreta-
qiat, Shanghai.

Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secreta-
riat, Shanghai.
China has recently had a dis
tinguished guest" in the person of
Mr.. Albert Thomas, who holds the
position of Director of the Labor
Office of the League of Nations at
Geneva. 1t is necessary, therefore,
to introduce this gentleman to the
workers of China and the Far East,
and explain just who he is, what he
stands for, and what is his record.
Mr.. Thomas is a French social
| list. Since 1914, he and his party
have been in the service of the
French government, that same i'm
perialism which holds Chinese terri
tory, Expresses and exploits 20 mil
lion Chinese people in AMMAN and
Cochin-C China, participated in mas
sacres of Chinese people Canton,
June 90, 1920, and takes part gen.
orally in the imperialist exploitation
of the wc~ld.
| During the World War, Mr..
Thomas first became well-known to
the world, as minister of munitions.
French working men were rebellious
and did not wish to produce ammu-
milton to slaughter their brothers in
an imperialist war; Mr.. Thomas, the
socialist" was made minister be-
ause he could fool the workers, cheat
them with high-sounding words,
and with talk of Socialism" per-
suade them to plunge deeper into
the war.
What the imperialists think of
Mr.. Thomas, and the reasons why
they love him are to be found in his
war record, as well as in his services
today in the League of Nations; but
especially in the days of 1917 in
Russia when the workers and peas
ants were revolving against tsarism
and war. The French government
sent Mr.. Thomas to Russia to persu-
ade also the Russian workers that
they should submit to imperialism,
should kill and be killed obediently
in imperialist war. The reactionary
French ambassador to Russia, M.
Paleologue, has published his diaries
of that time, in which we find such
records as the following:
"Albert Thomas is in cheerful
mood, beaming, highly amused at
the idea of meeting the tsar. We'll,
old Thomas he cries, so you are
to come face to face with his
Majesty the Tsar, Autocrat Of all
the Russiasw
The captains of industry hurried
to meet and receive this Socialist"
They asked him to inspect their fac
tories. The vice-president of the In
dustrial War Committee said to the
French ambassador:
my friends and / are very
anxious that M. Albert Thomas
should attend one of our sittings.
He would certainly have most
valuable things to tell us, which
we could then circularize to all
our factories"
CAT one moment" writes Pa
leologue, Il saw Albert Thomas
in conversation with Sturmer (the
transit premier). / came up to
them and listened"
"'Your factories are not get
ting enough DONE said Albert
Thomas, you could produce ten
times as much. You should mill
tarize your workers"
A Comrade of British Imperialists.
After the tsar was overthrown,
Thomas and Socialists" from many
nations came to Russia to persuade
the workers to continue to fight for
the allied Imperialism. The British
Iimperialist ambassador, Sir George
Buchanan, tells about giving a din
ner in honor Of the Socialists" at
which Mr.. Thomas asked him:
II "What would you have said if
/ you had been told five years ago
that / and two other socialists
would be sitting one day as guests
at your table ?"
"The very idea would have hor-