CONFIDENCE IN BLUM

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 143, 2 June 1936, Page 9

CONFIDENCE IN BLUM

Future Premier’s Warning Against Fascism NO SOCIALIST UTOPIA PARIS, June 1. Tho National Socialist Congress passed a unanimous vote of confidence in M. Leon Blum, the future Prime Minister, alter hearing his speech, in which he delivered a warning against Fascism. “A Socialist Utopia cannot yet be expected,’’ said M. Blum, adding: “The working class must realise the impossibility ot dissociating class action from political action, though it is natural that, following a long period of misery, the proletariat should manifest impatience when it has seised pow-er.” Nevertheless, all its movements must be controlled by Trades Unions. The new Government would not be a Kerensky Government but, even if it were, no Lenin would succeed it. The programme of the Popular Front, including the Radicals, would be exoouted. Fascism was on the watch; its aim everywhere had been io destroy workers associations and subordinate them to capitalism. The present regime could now utilise scientific and economic developments for the general good. His party must continue its own mission by constructing a new system. If he tailed he would be the first to tell his followers that it was a chimera and a vain dream Even so, the party would be hit only temporarily. The truth ot Socialism would not be affected. Fiance’s voice would be heard throughout the world with increased power in the support of peace, complete, indivisible and disarmed.