The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-25
On the
World Front
L. By HARRY CANNES =
Fascism and Free Speech
United Front in France
China Today Is Out
Notes on Merthr
RY HARRY GANNRs

Socialist Party leaders
against the united front
struggles of rank and file
Socialists along with Commy-
nists against fascism in Lyons, Tou-
louise and many other cities Of
France. 1t is by these bitter strug-
giles that the revolutionary front Of
the working class is welded against
the fascist dogs.
Nor is it surprising to see how
the leading specialist in foreign af-
fairs for the American Workers
Party, Mr.. Ludwig Lore, pen-pros-
titute for the demagogic capitalist
sheet, the New York Post, treats
these valiant battles of the French
working class against the threat Of
a fascist dictatorship.
Scoring genuine international
class solidarity, the spokesman Of
the American Workers Party, whose
views do not diverge from those Of
the New York Post, can SANDER and
heap scorn on the actions Of the
French workers.
The unsavory Mr.. Lore has the
temerity to write:
But the Communist Party sends
its shock troops into these meet
ings to keep the fascist move
ment form taking root. Pledged to
defend the right of free speech IN
all political meetings, fascist or
otherwise, the police assist the
reactiOnaries against their attack
erS and the Communists usually
leave more victims on the scene
of battle than their hated OPP
pOnents."
THAT the Communists lead in the
i struggle against fascisn, we do
not deny, Mr.. Lore. But your in
timation that this is futile fight,
and that the vanguard is plunged
into hopeless struggle is the sheer
est SANDER. To take one of Mr..
Lore's competitors in the field Of
capitalism journalism, we quote a
cable dispatch from Paris to the
New York Times, published the day
after Mr.. Lore's mealy-mouthed at
tack on the heroism of the French
Communists:
Hitherto what had happened
was that some nationalist leader
would announce a lecture. Then
Communists and Socialists would
be together and seek to prevent
the scheduled meeting. The result
would invariably be a riot, and
sometimes very serious one"
The Paris correspondent for the
New York Times, who is not graced
with a pseudo-revolutionary role in
the American Workers Party, re-
ports what every other capitalist
paper has reported for months -
Communist and Socialist rank and
file joined in these demonstrations
against fascism, and it was not a
question of the Communists acting
alone as the vanguard in a hope
less fight.
However, this is only part of the
lying distortion of Mr.. Lore. He
talks of the French police pledged
to defend the right of free speech"
Anyone with half a knowledge Of
the facts, not intent on deliberate
vilification and SANDER, knows that
the French Government and it's
police was not protecting free
speech but the fascist meetings,
these gangsters against
the workers. Did the French police
protect the right of the French
to free speech on May Day,
Mr.. Lore? Or is it that you think
that the right of fascists to speak
freely is the right of free speech
per Sc?
IT is very difficult in this column
to print the vast amount of in
exhaustive and remark
able reports coming out Of Soviet
China, To those interested in OBJ
tanning these reports we recon-
mend highly the latest issue of
China Today, published by the
of the Chinese People, 1853
w. 23rd st. The June-July issue,
priced at 10 cents, contains the fol-
owing: u Complete Perspective of
Soviet China, part 2; D Mao Use
lungs Report Before the Second
Chinese Soviet Congress. Comrade
Mao is chairman of the Central
Soviet Government in Kiangsi and
Fukien provinces; 81 Social AS
poets of Soviet China, by Bella Kun,
and a an explanation of the or
yanization Friends of the Chinese
People.
m the recent Merthr elections in
England, the Communist Party,
lfter a stirring two weeks election
received 1900 votes, and
low the Labor Party scribblerS are
,rying to belittle this tremendous
advance of the Communist Party,
)ooh pooling it as mere drop in
he bucket. However, the London
Daily Worker points out that these
abor lackeys of British imperialism
ire trying to salve the blow given
hem by the Communist elections
yains.
The facts are that in a con-
stituency of $4,000 voters, with a
Communist membership of eight,
in 14-day election campaign the
Communist candidate was able to
win S,409 votes away from the
Labor Party and the Independent
Labor Party on a clear-cut rev.
oluticnary program for the pro-
letarian dictatorship and Soviet