CHALLENGE TO FASCISM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22434, 2 June 1936, Page 9

CHALLENGE TO FASCISM

NEW FRENCH GOVERNMENT CONTROL BY TRADE UNIONS PARIS, May 31 The National Socialist Congress unanimously passed a vote of confidence in M. Blum, Prime Minister-elect, after hearing n speech in which ho delivered a warning against Fascism. M. Blum said that a Socialist Utopia could not yet be expected, adding that the working class must realise the impossibility of dissociating class action from political action although it was natural that, following a long period of misery, tho proletariat should manifest impatience when it seized power. Nevertheless, all its movements must be controlled by trade 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 executed. Fascism was on the watch. Its aim everywhere had been to destroy workers' associations and subordinate them to capitalism. The present regimo could not utilise scientific and economic developments for the general good. His party must continue its x>wn mission by constructing a new system. If he failed, he would be the first to tell his followers -it was a chimera or a vain dream. Even so, the party would be hit only temporarily. Tho truth of Socialism would not be affected. France's voice would be heard throughout the world with increased power in support of peace, complete, indivisible and disarmed.