Communists Ask Socialists to Form United Front Montreuil, July 24.
The convocation of a national congress of the committees united in the Popular Front in France and the immediate fusion of the French Sodalist and Communist parties wa urged by the Communist Secretary-General, M. Maurice Thorez, yester! day before the Congress of the Communist Central Committee.
M. Thorez reasserted the Party's loyalty to the Popular Front and admitted that the Front, in its fourteen months: at the helm of the government, had done much to better th lot of the working man. Nonetheless, labour worried by the instances where the Government have bucked down in their reforms. The big employers were encouraged to become more and more provocative, and the workers were obliged to strike for their rights, "We will support the second (Chautemps) Government of the Popular ut as far as it applies the Front's programme," M. Thorez declared.
When the ce-operating committees of Communist and. Socialist parties meet next Tuesday, he announced. ihe Communists would suggest combination and ask for a common con-
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