The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18
HERITAGE OF THE PARIS COMMUNE
into

normal wages of a worker, and in
no case should exceed 5000 francs
per year.
A DEADLY MENACE
TO THE EXPLORERS
All these measures showed with
sufficient clearness that the Com
mune was a deadly menace to the
old world, founded on slavery and
exploitation. Therefore bourgeois
society could not sleep peacefully so
long as the Red Flag Of the pro-
1etariat waved over the Paris City
Hall.
When at last the organized force
of the Government had managed to
defeat the poorly organized forces
of the revolution, the Bonapartist
generals who had been beaten by
the Germans and who were brave
only when fighting their defeated
coultrymen, these French Rennen-
kampfs and Meller-Sakomelskys,
organized such slaughter as Paris
had never known.
About 10000 Parisians were killed
by the ferocious soldiery, about
$4,000 were arrested and many of
these were afterwards executed,
thousands were imprisoned or exil-
ed. In all, Paris lost about 100000
of its sons, including the best
workers of all trades.
The bourgeoisie were satisfied.
Nov we have finished with So
cialism for a long time" said their
leader, the bloodthirsty dwarf,
Theirs, after the blood-bath which
he and his generals had arranged
for the proletariat of Paris.
A NEW GENERATION
PICKS UP THE FLAG
But these bourgeois crows cawed
in vain. Six years after the sup
preston of thee Commune, when
many of its fighters were still PIN
ing in prison or in exile, a new
workers movement rose in France.
A new Socialist generation, en-
riched by the experience of their
predecessors and no whit discour-
aged by their defeat, picked UP
the flag which had dropped from
the hands of the fighters of the
Commune and bore it boldly and
confidently forward, with cries of:
Long live the social revolution!
Long live the Commune!"
And few years after that, the
new workers party and the agita-
ton raised by it throughout the
country, compelled the ruling class
es to release the imprisoned Com
munards, who were still in the
hands of the government.
FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM
OF TOILERS
The memory Of the fighters OF the
Commune is not only honored by
the workers of France but by the
proletariat OF the whole world, for
the Commune did not fight for any
local or narrow national aim, but
for the freedom of toiling human
ity, of all the downtrodden and
oppressed.
AS the foremost fighter for the
social revolution, the Commune has
won sympathy wherever there is o
proletariat struggling and suffering.
The picture of its life and death,
the sight Of workers government
which seized the capital of the
world and kept it in his hands for
over two months, the spectacle of
the heroic struggle of the prole-
tariat and its sufferings after de-
feat--all this has raised the spirit
of millions of workers, aroused their
hopes and attracted their sym
pathies to the side of socialism.
The thunder Of the cannon in Paris
awakened the most backward strata
Of the proletariat from deep slum-
Der, and everywhere gave impetus
to the growth of revolutionary So
cialist propaganda. This is why the
cause Of the Commune did not die.
1t lives to the present day in every
one of us.
The cause OF the Commune is the
cause Of the social revolution, the
cause of the complete political and
economic emancipation of the
toilers. It Is the cause of the pro-
letariat Of the whole world. And
IN this sense it Is Immortal
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