The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
Fascists Ask
Dictatorship
For France
Workers Face Armed
Attacks melted By
State and Press

PARIS, Nov. 5.-The Doumerguc
government not only is mobilizine
troops with a threat of civil war to
put over its fascist measures, but is
whipping up campaign of fascist
terror and the threat of street
fighting against the Socialist and
Communist united front.
Paris capitalist newspapers are
inspiring the same fascist bands
who on Feb. led the bloody street
fighting in which % were killed to
prepare demonstrations now to as
sist Doumergue to put over his fas-
cist constitutional amendments,
The newspapers, in order to get
the Radical Socialist deputies to
support Doumergue's proposals on
Wednesday, are freely predicting
bloody rioting and civil war should
the government be forced to dis
solve the Chamber of Deputies in
the face of an adverse vote.
Pierre Renaudel, Socialist mem
Der of the Chamber of Finance
Committee, speaking before the
Socialist Party convention at Toul-
Ion today declared that the Gov
eminent is preparing the most ter
rible measures against the Socialist
and Communist united front, but
that the workers will be ready to
defend their rights and fight fas-
cism. He predicted bloody street
struggles within two weeks.
Similar to the Lerroux- Robes
governments attacks ON the reyolu-
tionary workers before the armed
uprising in Spain, the Doumergue
government is now circulating ru-
mors that the French workers are
arming themselves. The capitalist
press prints stories saying that
arms are being imported from
Switzerland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia,
Spain and Germany by the Social
list and Communist Party. On this
pretext, it is reported here that the
War Ministry is moving troops into
the industrial centers for use
against the workers, and to help
the Doumergue government put
over its fascist laws. The War
Ministry denies it is making any
special troop movements, though
the Doumergue government admits
that it is preparing for civil war
eventualitieS.
Premier Doumergue, after the
Radical Socialist leaders showed
their weather-vane reactions to
mass discomfort with the proposed
fascist measures, made q radio
speech, hoping to whip up a chau-
whist frenzy against the united
front.
Figaro, leading capitalist sheet
in Paris, called on the government
to prepare for civil war, charging
that the Socialists and Communists
were making this inevitable. 1t
also spread the report that the rev.
dictionary workers we're armins.
On Wednesday, Doumergue will
appear before the Chamber of Dep
uties and propose passage Of the
governments budget for three
months, and concealed in the bud
get will be measures for granting
greater dictatorial powers to the
Premier in line with its desire to
inaugurate fascist terror against
the Socialist and Communist par
ties.
Fearing that these measures will
m e ct with an adverse vote,
Doumergue is preparing all extra
parliamentary fascist forces to help
him put over the decree under the
threat of civil war, and the institu-
ton OF an outright fascist dictator
ship in France.
The Socialist and Communist
Parties are massing the workers for
resistance, exposing the fascist meas
ures, calling for keeping the ranks
OF the united front solid and pre-
pairing to resist every attack on the
workers, no matter under what
guise it is proposed to put it over.