The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24
Fascist Bands
Get Arms With
Help of Govt
Social-F ascists Fail To
Break United Front
of Workers


PARIS, April 23-The workers O.
France are preparing for May Day
in a tense situation which may
break out at any time into armed
clashes between fascist defenders
of a ruling class rotten with cor
ruption and broad and militant
workers united front.
Under the leadership Of the Com
munist Party and the revolutionary
Unitary Trade Union Confederation,
the fighting united front of work
ers, peasants, and even of soldiers
has reached level which has
thrown terror into the hearts Of the
French ruling class. Hundreds Of
thousands have demonstrated under
the slogan of "Soviets everywhere"
Workers Keep Fascists Off Streets
Day after day, in every part of
France, Communist, Socialist, and
non-Party workers have routed the
fascists, and swept them off the
streets.
Day after day, "L'Humanite.' CEN
trail organ Of the Communist Party,
has exposed the purchase of arms
by the thousands, and ammunitions
in immense quantities by fascist
groups, with the active assistance OF
the Doumergue government and the
general staff of the army, and the
military drilling of fascist bands.
FascistS Get Arms From Nazis
The chief purchases of arms by
the fasciSts are made in Germany,
at bargain prices offered by the
Nazi arms makers. A purchase
of half million automatic pistol
cartridges in Germany, carrying
the trademark of a no-longer
existing firm, has been exposed
by the Communists. The special
trade mark is intended TO con-
ceal the recent date on which the
ammunition was imported from
Germany. Such imports cannot be
made without the connivance Of
the government.
General Strike Begins May
On May 1, the series of short gen.
eral strikes and mass demonstra-
lions against the Doumergue gov
ernment's wage and veterans pen
sion cuts will eliminate n a general
strike OF state employees against the
governments war budget economy"
program,
This strike, called by the Unitary
Trade Union Federation, with the
energetic support of the Communist
Party, is to continue until the gov
eminent rescinds all the DEGREES at
lacking the standards of living Of
the working class.
National Anti-Fascist Congress
1t is to be followed, on May 20,
by three gigantic anti-fascist ma
tional congresses, called by the
French League Against War and
Fascism. The first is a general work.
ers' congress, the second a peas
ants congress, the third youth
congress. Simultaneously, through
out France. mass demonstrations in
support of the congresses, and
against fascism and war, are being
prepared.
Reformists Produce Fascist Scheme
The leadership of the Socialist
Party and the reformist trade
unions have attempted to head off
the militant will of their rank and
file by bringing forward social
fascist scheme for the "rehabilita-
ton of the national economy"
A mass meeting called by the
leaders of the reformist trade unions
for April 8, at which the fascist
like scheme of the reformists was to
be presented, was hurriedly called
off the day before, after confer
ence of the trade unon leadership
and Premier Doumergue.
1t was called off because the Com
munist Party, the revolutionary
trade unions, and the revolutionary
trade union opposition groups had
brought about the election of so
many militant representatives to
this social-faseist estates general"
that it became clear that this at
tempt at class collaboration would
be transformed by the workers nto
a gigantic expression of working
class unity against social-fascism,