The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-17
BY PAUL GREEN

TEN months have passed since the
4 February 6 riots took place in
the streets of Paris. That decrepit
old man Doumergue was called back
to Paris to save France from civil
war; he was called to inaugurate
a reign of terror against the toll
ing masses of France. He was sup
ported in this undertaking by the
right wing of the political parties,
which parties had as accessories the
different fascist leagues which killed
about II workers in the streets of
Paris and elsewhere in France. He
also had the support of the neo-
Socialists and the Radical-Socialist
Party. The capitalist class and its
lieutenants did not reckon with the
class consciousness of the French
proletariat. They thought it would
be very easy to introduce a fascist
government-but to their astoniSh-
ment something happened. The
French proletariat said: We must
unite in one mighty united front
to crush fascism, and since February
IL, 1884, not a day passed without
some united front action of the So
cialists and Communists.
Then came the proposed reforms
of Doumergue Tardieu Marquet,
and amidst all this, the cantonal
elections and the Radical Socialist
congress at Nantes. The result of
the cantonal elections caused some
heavy losses to the Radical-Social-
lists. 1t was warning from the
rank and file of their party. Again
at the Nantes congress the warning
became more pronounced and more
vigorous. Herriot ard Co. had to
decide between the forces of fas-
cism and the demands of the mis-
guided rank and file of his party
who would have no more of his
piffle. The rank and file and the
militant Radical-Socialists demand
ed at the congress: ID That their
party caese cooperating with the
National Union which, under cover
of a truce, the fascist bands arm
and drill; % That their party de-
mand immediate dissolution and
disarmament of the fascist leagues;
90 That the decree-laws which
slashed salaries, cut pensions, bur-
dened the little man with taxes and
relieved the exploiters, be categori-
cally condemned; ca That the Rad
ical Party make it known that any
injury brought to the rights of rep
yacnl1fntinfl ir~t,oI
suffrage would not be tolerated.
THESE demands made by the mil
4 liant delegates at the Nantes
congress were applauded, and then
what happened? Herriot made
speech and in caucus they changed
the entire thing. In their program
you will not find the demands made
by the rank and file delegation;
you will not find the demands for
the dissolution of the fascist leagues.
The program maintains the truce
and gives carte blanche" to the
Rsdical-Socialist ministers. The
fall of the Doumergue Cabinet
might lead one to the idea that
Herriot and his hand were against
Doumergue's reforms. II anyone
thought so, and according to the
reports CT the bourgeois papers one
might have been inclined to believe
SO, these illusions have been quickly
dispelled, for no sooner had Elan
din, the pro-fascist, announced the
Cabinet than we found Herriot in
it, in company With that arch-en-
envy of the working class known to
be che of the leaders of the Fascist
Leagues. Louis Marin, Georges Man
del, monarchist associated with
the Cemelot5 Gu Roi (snother royal
ist and fascist organizs tom and
others of the same branch.
The political lineup, therefore,
with the new so-called truce gov
eminent is clear. On the one hand.
we have the anti -Marxist front,