SATURDAY, MAY 23. 1936 MMLITANT PAGE France the Last Week Before the War INTRODUCTION work. And that is what the bandits on By Rosmer dispatch from Strasbourg relating In an article entitled: Maledicthe Boulevards have been halling to Socialist activity in Alsace Lortion! Bataille Syndicaliste infor the last two days.
raine: velghs not so much against the war ter dealing with the last week before the war in The last week of July 1914 was And that, mind you, solely be CONFUSION has its roots in ignorance, and the in general as the Emperor of AusFrance, describes in detall the reaction of the trade widespread confusion of the present day on the the last week of peace, the last cause some serblan peasants and burning problem of war is in large measure due to STRASBOURG, July 31. The union movement to the problems raised by the war Socialist Party has organized pro tria In particular. This unexpected the history of Europe and of the ling and will come to grips.
crisis. In it we note the gradual but perceptible test meetings against war and malediction occurs in the last line of the article.
past. This condition can be principally traced to metamorphosis of the outstanding leaders, some of against the threat of a universal world. So! Unless we are either crazy the studied, sedulous, systematic dissemination of The ultimatum of the Austro or corrupt; unless we want to see false information and interpretation by the social whom, like Jouhaux are still at the head of the trade conflagration in the great cities of MALEDICTION Hungarian Government was served our country throw itself in a few patriots. disoriented working class, nurtured on unions of France and still advocating the same pol Alsace. meeting was held yes Weeping!
icies.
terday evening at Mulhouse and Weeping!
on Serbia on Friday, July 24. The hours into the worst imaginable ad lles, is pliant material for the militarists in time of French newspapers published it venture; it, comrade, you do not war. To create such a condition is the special Job Beginning with loud pacifist pronunciamentos, this evening others will be held Weéping!
and commented on it the next day. want to be torn from the arms of of social patriotism.
with threats of general strike, with telegrams of in Strasbourg, Mulhouse and Colmar. rain of tears is falling Saturday the 25th. The Bataille your family to be led into the East ternational solidarity and even the organization of Meetings are also scheduled in the upon the city.
It is the general mobilizaSyndicaliste (organ of the to the firing line, the people of Paris What is the lesson of the World War? To read huge anti war demonstrations, their position begins less important centers.
to veer the moment war is unleashed. The call for a It also makes mention of Internation!
Ed. gave it the importance that must be immediately aroused. This or listen to the Stalinists, reformists or pacifists one general strike is forgotten, and how else could it be, tional working class action. Leglen. May the monstrous crime It deserved; a three column spread is an emergency. If these criminal would gather that it was a terrible calamity, destroyas the leaders begin to explain: We have done evers had sent a telegram to the which is to plunge all of Europe announced: The ultimatum of Aus tools, who cry: Long live war! ing wealth, body and soul, and that is all. That the thing in our power. then a complaint against the Joubaux replied to him. Here it is into barbarism, into the abyss of tria to Serbit. The Viennese Gov. are not silenced this very evening World War shattered besides material treasures and ernment wants to impose humillat then the end has come.
black mourning and roln be punthe lives of millions of human beings, the policies of working class for not understanding its duty and as published in the finally the acceptance of the war as an accomplished Ished.
ing conditions on Belgrade. It ser Tomorrow We will be Mobilized the leading circle of the working class movement, is fact: It is odlous, it is atrocious, it is unbelievable INTERNATIONAL WORKING May the thrones tumble, may. but it is. with this, the treacherous leaders CLASS ACTION the crowns fall!
then. The article stressed of all our friends, of all the trade Because these very same policies, with differences wash their hands of all struggle against war, nay In reply to a telegram from com The will of the people has been the gravity of this new house me the unionists of Paris, of all the friends only in decree and emphasis, are being practiced and the. advocated in the labor movement today. Disaster for more, they join in the struggle for the victory of the rade Legien, secretary of the Inter violated, imperialism is the criminational Secretariat, requesting the bal that Vague capitalist fatherland they invelghed against leashed the tempest.
able character of the European This Evening After o Clock the working class followed in the wake of these polcomplications which would follow on the main streets opposite the Icles in 1914 1918; blindfolded, it was led to the im. But if it must be, if the rhetorical flourishes the day before. But the ground opinion of the on the present is even then tested cautiously through a patriotic situation, the Confederal Bureau catastrophe inevitable. If the It drew no conclusions.
offices of Matin.
perialist slaughter, while at home the fron heel of remark at the Emperor Franz Joset. From this point addressed the following telegram to force of the workers for peace was In the same edition prominent And everyone shouting, Down capitalist dictatorship made a mockery of the shibvallant but futile to save their on the social patriots grow bolder. The working class him position was given to the Russian with War!
boleths they were dying for on the battlefields. Ceris exhorted to leave the front without bitter Legten, Engel Ufer (15 Berlin. bonor, oh! then may the very extent strikes under the heading: The Belleville, Menilmontant, St. tain as death itselt the same policies today, will lead ness, to die not for their capitalist fatherland but French Federation of Labor of the evil consummated arise to riots continue. Repression has be Antoine, Montparnasse, remember to the same tragic results.
for the revolution (Modern version. democracy, the resolutely against war, demands in annihilate stifing militarism!
gun.
your heroic traditions. Let the The imminence of another war, no longer consid Soviet Union. The outstanding trade union leader ternational proletariat Intervene by May this be the end of the The next day edition, Sunday, streaming masses from the fauered even by the skeptical as a fantastic prediction enters the unholy coalition of class peace and ad pressure on governments to obtain nightmare!
July 26, was of paramount impor bourgs flood the centers of the city of panic mongers, makes it imperative that we, the vises the capitalist class as to how to induce passivity a localization of the conflict. And a curse upon the name of tance: it provided the conclusions and submerge these imbecile and revolutionists, the class conscious workers, study and and quiet in the working class and how to profit most Pence is possible, and must trl the senile Emperor Franz Josefi which were missing from the ar jingo provocations.
assimilate the real lessons of the first World War from the imperialist war.
amph, if the workers organized inticle of the day before and provided That is our only hope of peace. Imperative if we are not to be caught unawares, with Rosmer book deals only with the French laborternationally remain united in the day conscripts were entrained to Throughout Sunday, the first them in the name of the That is our only salvation. The trade union federation Ed. That is our last hope of avoiding reason we are devoting an entire page of the NEW the war coming as an unexpected shock. For this movement, but it can be applied almost in detail to same thought: opposition to all conthose of almost every other country before and during flagration.
Join their regiments. During this First a boxed head over the first the catastrophe; let us save our MILITANT to a chapter of Alfred Roemer invalu the fatal years of 1914 1918. Above all, it can and This peace lles in the hands of doubtedly looking for booty, sacked time, the people left behind, untwo columns under the caption. selves while there is still time.
able book, recently published in France, Mouve must be applied today. The events of the last world the international working class, 1t the boches shops, and abandoned WE DON WANT WARM Time presses Until this evening!
ment Ouvrier Pendant la Geurre De Union Sacree a. war must become an integral part of the revolution it proves equal to the peril.
themselves also, bere, there and and the text Here pacifist demonstrations everywhere, spy hunts. The ConZimmerwald (The Workers Movement during the. Bataille Syndicaliste.
ary arsenal. Only by learning the errors and crimes of yesterday can we be strong today and tomorrow. are continuing We Armly believe federal Committee held briet The decisions of the federal War From Civil Pence to Zimmerwald. This chapin peace because we are energet meeting in the early afternoon.
congress on the attitude of the Finally the District Committee working class in case of war be was convoked for the next Thurs sentiments of the people of Paris hood of the Etolle. All the neigh. hastily terminated, inasmuch asically resolved to avert war.
Monday Bataille Syndicaliste said come operative at the moment war day. Down with war!
which do not differ in any way from boring subway stations were closed Jouhaux, Merrheim and other memLong live nothing about it. The leading aris declared.
Meeting of the District Com the sentiment of the people in gen at seven o clock. But the workersbers rushed to the offices of Hu peace guaranteed by the Labor Intielo, captioned The Irreparable. In such a case the declara mittee, joint meeting of both sec eral on the possible war.
When they arrived there, is signed This warning will be immediate at which the government decl manite tion of war should be the signal for tions, Thursday, July 30, P. 38 Jouhaux. The Irreparable has now be every worker to immediately stop Rue la Grange aux Belles. Agenda. ly followed by another. Tomorrow sion was made and posted, could rue Montmartre was thronged with The systematic campaign of de curred.
the international situation. the same people will march through not be prevented from arriving a vast multitude of agitated workmoralization of the masses by the. The European war is un(signed) Jouhaux, Sec y. the two halls in the Wagram, be from all parts of the city in ers shocked by the horrible news. circulation of false news continued. leashed. To every declaration of war the workers should immediately cause both halls are too small to large numbers.
reply with a revolutionary general The Violence of hold them.
asked for an explanation were im. But there was not alone grict on the 28th the newspapers an. The spirit still refuses to believe strike. This time they will again indi mediately beaten up, slugged, ar among them, there was also angez nounced the assassination of the this. Extract from the resolution Democracy cate their unshakeable determina rested, and falled. Bataille Syndi. and a desire for vengeance. Their Cerature representatives in Belgrade. Nevertheless, it is only too true, adopted by the Special ConferThese appeals were heard. From tion to put into practice the decealiste wrote that the garb of a rumber was constantly swelling.
Friday, July 31 at about 10 lives and our spirits, recalls us back and Federations, Oct. 1, 1911) o clock until midnight that Monday Isions of the Trade Union Congressworker sufficed to provoke a beating The Socialist leaders assembled at Saturday, August 1, the order of to our sense of duty, fastens it to ence of Central Labor Unions an enormous crowd flowed cease on war. They will show that they by the police. From which the this time no doubt feared reprisals general mobilization was already those conceptions to us which we Youth Against War traordinarya hutbe Boate paredes were ta in peace, making common cause the workers, there tho enemy. De agalnst the perpetrators of the posted at tour in the afternoon, want to recentemente compromince we During this last part of the month mobilized; the tactic of the chee with the proletariat of Germany. spite this show of police force and crime, all of whom were well wbich set the frst day of mobiliza our hopes, crush sa loob omatiste all the brutal orders conscientiously known, because a voice from one of tion for Sunday morning. While the forts.
of July when the war danger sud Matin (in anticipation of a work on the morrow the rulers are executed, crowds gathered around the windows of the offices of the thelr new demonstrations against unbelievable.
of police was to protect the offices England, Italy, and elsewhere.
Socialists and syndicalists prepared It is atrocious, It is odious, it is denly reappeared, the Jeunesses members once more to demonstrate agents had been stationed inside will they will be preparing a cruel Ternes, which soon became the calm. The multitude of workers struck down by a hired thug and Syndicalistes decided to call their ing class assault, a hundred police insane enough to ignore the people even the Etoile and the Place des paper was suddenly heard urging war, the war makers had Jaures But it is.
scene of bloody encounters. This dispersed against the military parades of the red house. and, by police tomorrow for themselves. From now on war is impossible quarter of Paris kept seething the into the newy, very slowly: late the government, which continued to night many groups still Saturday the 25th. In the morning cordons, established in each of the Social Patriotism entire evening remained discussing. But the crime declare that it wanted peace and that it was making all efforts to Bataille Syndicaliste published their streets leading to the Boulevards, the people will not permit it!
of the speeches made at the fuBataille Syndicaliste of Thurs was go unpunished.
appeal and in the evening there to prevent the formation of a single Our second demonstration towere more demonstrations. The mass demonstration by checking the morrow evening at Wagram will day, July 80, carried the following Saturday, August 1, Bataille Syn avert war, had decided for the gen neral of Jaures, that of Jouhaux streamer. Down with war.
dicaliste drew the following balance eral mobilization. It only remained alone must be retained here. The Bataille Syndicaliste reported them flow of new arrivals. But the work prove it!
for Poincare to cynically declare for Wed. August 5, prints long sheet of this fatal day: despite everything!
as follows on Sunday: ers who came from the faubourgs The meeting referred to in this that mobilization is not yet war, extracts. Jouhaux first explained into the centers of the city were so Article was announced further on The government did not stop with DAY OF TRAGEDY although he knew only too well that why the working class loved Jaures. THE MILITARY PARADES numerous that the tactics of the in a box: this brutal prohibition of anti war Mobilization Rumored; Jaures PROVOKE INCIDENTS police produced unexpected rethe Russian general mobilization, then he cried. Assassinated.
meetings and demonstrations; 1t begun on the 31, in the early hours Today, it is still in our minds Cries of Down with War! sults: there were soon as MONSTER MASS MEETING methodically prepared the minds of Under the heading: monstrous of the day, made the universal con that we will draw upon indispen The military maneuvers pro demonstrations as there were sable forces. In the name of those voked incidents last evening to streets. The violence and brutale General Confederation of Labor the people for war and its accepcrime, the paper wrote: What a flagration Inevitable. Trade Unions of the Seine Dist. tance. In these critical days 1t which the present situation gave an of the police could not dampen the To the Workers: practiced special technique through death?
sinister omen in this martyred But Poincare le deceived no one who are about to depart myself Then Leon Jouhaux. Mobilization is war. Bataille Syn among them declare that it is especial importance.
fighting spirit of these crowds; all After a year truce, the Jeun evening the cry of down with events surge on, the possibility of which alternately blew hot and dicaliste announced it in its issue not hatred of the German people NO HYSTERIA esses Syndicalistes have called on war! resounded from the Opera to war becomes clear.
cold: one day it was war, the next The hour la grave, but not deg ler: pon must in this stream which drives us to the battle fields triumphs over reason. it is hatred of German Imperialism.
the military parades passed over following lines summed up the re crime to take place, without having even more rapla; on the same day numerous friends in the world, and their members to demonstrate when the Place de la Republique. The Shall we allow this abominable day peace. In Paris the rythm was perate. The cause of peace has still The Die Is Cast The editor of adds in his to the right bank.
port an accurate report by a cer made heard our protest and with they passed successively from war the working class of all countries story. On one side the shouts were tain which the Bataille Syndical out having done everything to pre to peace. By this method the peo are acting in a common thought: The Issued a manifesto to Tumultuous applause.
Emotion raised: Long live the Republic! iste gave of the demonstration. vent it?
ple were rapidly whipped up to a to avert the armed clash, the workers of France: was at its zenith. People wept.
Long live Calllaux! Down with The government officials? Ah! the Already our central organiza frenzy. On Wednesday, panic was Above all we must guard our GRAVE HOUR HAS JUST Maurice Barres applauded vigoroug.
war! Down with the three years great apostles of democracy! They tlons have appealed to the trade already in the air. There was a selves against panie and hystoria, STRUCK ly and said to one of his neighbors. military service! On the other: were pacifists at election time. Yesunions to observe the decisions of run on the banks and on the say which lead to the worst results.
Long live the army! After the terday they opposed to Paris will the Federal Congress.
ings banks and gold was universal. Our duty is to attentively of triumph. ray of hope is still cried out: And to think that these The evd forces are on the polnt Very sood! Very good! one sen: ator, a bitter enemy of the demonstration, the Jeunesses Syn for peace the sabres of the police We will comment on these declly demanded in place of bank notes. scan the news we receive without dicalistes, reinforced by numerous and the guns of the Gardes Mobilessions and we will describe thelr ap The for Thursday reported however placing unlimited trust visible, but so weak that the worst are the men we wanted to clap in spectators, demonstrated on the It was their first step toward war. plication in a eventualities must be envisaged.
the incidents of the panic under the upon it.
jall!
oulevards. However swept by the whirlpool, Yes, they are mobilizing, but mobil Monster Meeting following caption. The confederal Committee will we want to preserve the hope In the of Thursday, Aug. 6, But during Sunday, other demonizing the police against the work which will be held on Wednesday, In possible peace a new explanation of the war is strators, several thousand in numers. Their first victory. No July 20, at 8:30 at Wagram LET THEM STOP AND THINK call popular demonstrations, Hall, Wagram Avenue. day of anxiety. The govern Paris and in the provinces.
ber, marched along the Boulevards they were not victorious. Up to this hour the Confederal adven in an unsigned but promiment On its part the Confederal Com Committee has remained at its post, nently placed article: shouting: Long live the army! Most of the Tuesday, July 28 is Joubaux, Dumoulin, Yvetot (c. the international crisis: prepare the mittee had adopted the following lighting for the cause of peace. FROM THE CLASH OF Long live the War! On to Berlin! sue was devoted to this demonstra Only yesterday it addressed a LIBERTY LET LIBERTY On to Berlin! The Seine Trade tion. The front page bore the Chauvin (Building Trades repression against the working agenda Federation. Merrheim (Metal supreme appeal to the international Union Federation, and the Bataille streamer: The People Rise Up SPRING FORTH Workers Federation. Lefevre This is undoubtedly the guaran The Confederal Committee, meet working class.
Syndicaliste decided to reply im Against the War. In the present conflict the They called on the Then a four column head. Jewelry Workers Federation. mediately.
tee demanded by the Ozar, four on Friday, July 31, resolves in view If its efforts do not appear to ethnical question has its impor Parisian workers to come out on PARIS WANTS NO SLAUGHTER Syndicate de le Seine. Bled, Minot, Ganbiez (Union des friend and ally. Sach measures will save neither organize in agreement with the 80: right to expect, what the organized of a coarser strain and therefore the streets in their turn and as It proved it yesterday evening.
national Independence, if it were cialist Party great international working class hoped, it is because more submissive and resigned in semble before the ceilings of todatio There were demonstrations every: Repression Begins endangered, nor the little statesmen demonstration agalnst war on Aug events have submergedJus And 18 spirit, have not our spirit of Indethe workers and the one which at teeming sections of Parls. The great Thursday, the 30th. Everything to the most catastrophic of adven committee was selected to moment, it is also because the prothat time most cynically pushed onboulevards were jammed. Officials had been prepared to make the tures.
Nevertheless the Anonymous aumeet with a committee of the so letariat has failed to understand toward war. The Bataille Syndi and Jingoes were warned. The po meeting of Wednesday evening a The workers have shown their clalist Party.
sufficient unanimity all the thor will say in his conclusion that caliste renewed the appeal in a lice charged violently against the a powerful working class protest sentiment by the demonstrations on The Committee was instructed consistent efforts necessary for pre it is only the proud and ferocious special edition printed during the demonstrators who shouted. Long against war. coup de theatreo the Boulevards; our ministers know to advance the demonstration it in serving humanity from the horrors clique which must be conquered.
curred. Late in the afternoon, the today what they must count with. ternational events warrant it. of war.
the working class sections of the live peace! Down with war. Indignation Against the Assascity after P. Women, you who are weeping at entitled: Humanity Justice! Ch.
The report was preceded by an morning was banned by the goverb. The will of the people is clearly article entitled: First notice, ment. The circumstance of the pro Woe to those who ignore this sination of Jaures. ANSWER THE JINGOES this moment, we have done every. Malotta recommends tact to the On to the Streets Tonight The committee learned during thing in our power to spare you foreign anarchists and Socialista whose importance was indicated by hibition are noteworthy. The deci today. Everything isn settled yet: the and the Union des Syndicats. isters held at o clock in the after cataclysm!
its session of the cowardly nagal this sorrow. But sad to say, today residing in France, and discernment the signature of the Bureau of the slon was made at a council of min Woe to those responsible for the nation which struck down the noble we can only deplore the falt ac to the government which had some die is not yet cast; but as things The following is the text: figure that was Jaures, compli.
what indiscriminately imprisoned noon. But this council of ministers are now, only a blunder or a rash Woe to the perpetrators of the It is impossible to transmit the Can we demand a greater sacriseveral move is needed to precipitate the Yesterday morning the Batwille was the first held since the return slaughter and savagery!
sentiment of sorrow which gripped flee from our comrades?
On August 8, another new recruit, of Poincare, who disembarked at catastrophe.
Syndicaliste in its own name and Dunkirk that very morning. What Woe to the powers that be! the members present. Although we are pained to say Charles Albert, who will become a. War. is the unleashing in the name of trade union organ. special information could he impart The working class alone will de In Jaures we had the most clairit, we will reply: No.
regular and prolific contributor.
of every hideous instinct, the blood izations called upon the people of to provoke such an extraordinary megalomaniacs. Before, during or humanity causes. Jaures who is unshakeable attachment to trade his first article: fate of these criminal voyant, the most ardent defender of What we implore of all, is an Here are the princlpal passages of lest, vilest and basest instincts. Re Paris to demonstrate the same eve step? Or what plot against peace after the massacre.
read the reports of the correspon ning against the threat of war. Adid he hatch in St. Petersburg with no more.
dents on the atrocities committed in special edition appearing at five his sinister accomplice Tsar Nicho the die is cast. Let them take warning before unionism, which must traverse and DEPART WITHOUT BITTER For Confederal Committee, survive the impending crisis.
NESS the course of the last Balkan war. o clock repeated the urgent appeal las, while the Russian workers cel The Bureau: Leon Joubaux. As firmly as yesterday, we must Immense Yvetot, Dumoulin, Marck, Cal preserve our ideas in their entire Remember the women raped and of the morning.
hopes, incalculable ebrated the holidays by disembowelled, the old men and And yesterday evening at eight strikes and spirited demonstrations wertul Jaures Assassinated opes are rising in the world.
veyrach.
and faith in their final triumph. Depart without bitterness, children mutilated, their fingers and o clock up to the time of this writ in the streets in all the working Friday evening. July 31. The In the issues of the preceding The Labor International will al without regret, comrade workers, ears cut off, their eyes gouged out, ing, despite the police, one hundred class sections of the city. Did he Confederal Committee was meeting.
days, the had pablished in ways remain the goal of our efforts. you who are being called to the villages burned and the piles of de thousand, two hundred thousand. already bring the order for general On its agenda was the organization formation on the demonstrations To It all our hopes converge, it front to defend French soll.
composing corpses abandoned in the who can estimate such a crowd. mobilization?
and preparation of a new and pow. which occurred simultaneously in must not be destroyed in the tem. Depart without bitterness, leave open to the flies and vultures!
of the workers of Paris demonstrat. At the same time that the minisertul demonstration against the war Germany, among them this dispatch pest.
without any mental reservations. Those corpses, tomorrow, it wili ed on the great boulevards with ters made this unforeseen and be which would take place simulta from Berlin, July 28: The police Because we know that a day will comrade workers. It is for the rev: be you!
constant shouts of: Down with lated decision, orders were issued neously in Paris and in all the chief has this evening proscribed come when the peoples will have olution you are going to fight. Those women, those children, war! Long live peace!
those old men, tomorrow they will. This is the first warning ever brutality necessary not only the telephone rang, interrupting the he highways. The police chief of it strength, when it will constitute closest to you who remain, both be yours!
given to the rulers of France who the holding of the meetings but any deliberations. Jatres had just been Munich took similar measures. That is war!
from now on are informed of the sort of gathering in the neighbor assassinated! The discussion was the only safeguard of Peace and young and old, whose hour bas not And on this day it published a civilization. Continued on Page 4)
many class.