Montana labor news., 1936-08-20
Fascists Everywhere
Alarmed by French
Peoples Front
Revolution In France in Full
Swing.

IAQS.IlfP)-NOthing mas lhdue
the Nazi dictators of Germany tremble
SO much in the three years Of their
bloody existence as the formation of
the Peoples Front government in
France.
From the moment that Leon Blum,
the Socialist leader, with the support
of the liberal, progressive and Com
munist parties, took up the reins OF
government in France, the Nazi press
has been screaming blue hell and muir
der about chaos, confusion, riots, hor
rors, bolshevism and anarchy in France.
The French working class and the
Liberals have shown how to deal with
Fascism. They banded together,
clenched their fists, and the hirelings
of the munition trusts along with their
dupes took to their heels. They are
still running and their allies across the
Rhine are shaking in their shoes, for
they know now that some day, and that
soon, the German peoples wrath will
sweep them into oblivion.
1t was a bad day for Hitler and
Goering when the Fascist leagues in
France were dissolved and their club
houses closed all over the country. 1t
gave the millions of workers in the
Nazi slave camps new hope. From a
dozen sources were learn OF the birth
and growth of illegal workers organi-
cations in the Reich. The formation of
a Peoples Front in Germany against
the Fascist murder regime stands be-
fore the door. The idea OF a popular
front is also in the air in England. In
Belgium it has just become an con
plished fact.
The only thing that Nazi Propa-
ganda Minister Joseph Goebbels could
think of to offset the tremendous i'm
preston which the democratic victory
in France produced in Germany was a
campaign Of wholesale lying in the
press. His example was followed by
the king OF the press in England, Lord
Rothermere, and by the Hearst poison
pumps in America. All of them hol-
Tered about the chaos in France, the
destruction of property, the danger
which foreign visitors, and especially
women tourists, face in France.
All the time France was perfectly
calm. Not a single act Of sabotage
was reported in the occupied factories.
Perfect order reigned in every town,
village and hamlet, although thousands
Of agents were let loose
among the striking millions. Fascists
offered the workers arms and muni-
tions. Working class d~iscipling, which
is not something that is acquired by
the aid Of rubber t~runcheons, ~revolvers
and thumb-screws, as in Germany and
Italy, but a spontaneous condition, not
only resisted the provocations, but
thous9nds of Fascist st%oolpigeons were
banded over to the public.
Today a new campaign has been
started in the Fascist press of Ger
many, England and Italy. Every day
you can read how the Peoples Front
in France is going to pieces, that the
Liberals are breaking away because
they are afraid of the Communist in
fluence and that Moscow has ordered
a revolution SO as to establish Soviets
in France before attacking Germany
from two sides.
Moscow knows better than anyone
else that at the first sign OF a violent
revolution in France, the German
armies would cross the Rhine. Mos
COW does not want that wal or any
other war.
AS to the revolution in France, it is
is in full swing now. 1t is coming
about orderly and peacefully. The
workers are the dominant class in So
ciety. The people are running the
show and not the steel trusts and the
railway magnates. If there is VIC
lence, it will be when the plutocracy,
in desperation Of losing out forever,
urges and finances the Fascists to
stage a putsch. But for that moment,
10000 anti-Fascist committees of vigil
lance are on the alert.
After dissolving the Fascist leagues,
the Peoples Front government is ma
tionalizing the armament industry at
the demand of Liberals, Socialists,
Progressives and Communists, vino are
more united than ever for freedom,
bread and peace. What is taking
place in France today is the greatest
social transformation Of the century
next to the Russian revolution. The
Fascists know it. That is why they
holler so much.