The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
World Front
By HARRY CANNES

Brands of Enthusiasm
French Elections
THE British empire is agog
4 with enthusiasm over the
r emarka Bile and amazing
achievement of the aviators
C. W. A. Scott and T. w.
Campbell Black. Varying emo
lions surge in the breasts of
the different classes under the aegis
of the British lion. The masses,
stirred to a fever pitch of enthusi-
.asm in England and Australia "
the newspapers, see in this his
torical feat one of the greatest
achievements Of mankind, the dar-
ing, the bravery of men. A trip
that took the Tollpuddle martyrs,
pioneer trade unionists who were
exiled in irons TO the wilds of
Australia one hundred years ago
for organizing workers, over six
months to make, was flown in II
hours by the winning planes.
But to the organizers of the
stunt, science, achievement, the
drawing closer Of the myriad races
and peoples covered by the. II .323-
mile flight was only a means to
an imperialist end. The British
admirals and generals turned to
their military maps with the salts
faction of knowing that in a day
or two bombing planes could be
sent to Indian villages from Eng
land to splatter bombs on rebellious
workers and peasants. British
statesmen felt that in this flight
they we're knitting the colonial en-
pires closer to the counting houses
Of London.
AUSTRALIA, the outpost of the
n British empire, is now closer to
London than Chicago was to New
York at the time of the Civil War.
The ss-conscious workers Of
England saw in this flight a chau-
whist stunt of British imperialism,
an effort to arouse enthusiasm in
the air war plans of British inn
perialism, to draw the masses be-
hind the efforts of British inn
pcrialism to tie tighter the bonds
over the growingly rebellious coll
onies.
After passing over Europe the
score OF planes droned their
way over the white Mans Bur
den." where the flying fishes play
and over 500,00ooo0 peasants and
workers toll end starve to make
profits for the British bond
and stockholders.
NONE of the American capitalist
~ newspapers carried detailed re-
ports Of Socialist and Communist
results in the recent Department
elections in France We have just
received the following:
At the frs. ballot, which took
place on Sunday, Oct. 7, 1872 Of
the 1913 candidates were elected,
and 300 candidates remain for the
second ballot election. Where can
didates do not receive sufficient
proportion of the votes at the first
election, they are carried over to a
subsequent election. None of the
parties recorded any great gains.
The Communists we're, however,
able to increase the number of
their seats by II, in comparison
with the frs ballot of the last
elections. Three Communists still
stand for the second ballot, The
Socialists have already won SO
seats: 48 stand for the second ball
lot. The right Marin group gained
nine seats "a to al of 227 seats. with
Al on the second BALLOT. The Neo-
Socialists won Is seats, II candi-
dates standing for the second ballot.
Numerically, the Communist Party
gained many votes-over 10000 as
compared with the 1928 elections.
The greatest gains we're made in
the industrial centers. In the De-
partment du Nord. $4,000; Pas de
Calais, 1850; Cher 5000; Seine ct
Disc. 12,70o; Havre, $500; Allier,
$780, Nievre, 800.
THE Finnish bourgeoisie have
1 melted out a savage sentence to
Hertta Kuusinen, daughter of o. w.
Kuusinen, member of the Executive
Committee of the Communist In
ternational. Hertta Kuusinen, whose
crime was having set foot on Fin
nish territory, where she was born.
was sentenced 10 four years at hard
labor on the pretext Of "prepara-
ton of high treason" Matti jan
hunen, accused together with her,
| got six years and half.
The Social-Democratic press, in
line with the Finnish capitalist
press, declared that she had come
to Finland to reorganize the Com
munist Party. In reporting the
sentences, the Social Democratic
press made no comment-and no
protes.
EORTY-SIX soldiers of the army
i telegraph corps in Stockholm.
Sweden, signed their names to a
protest csbled to the Bulgarian
government against the sentence Of
death for seven Bulgarian soldiers
st Picwdiw Tho Swedish soldiers
expressed heir solidarity with their
BULGARIAN comrades and welcomed
their courageous attitude.
latest figures on the Swedish
elections, which were originally
gs-bled in this column Though
/ the election results are not vet