French Communist Leader on Popular Front Gains Arles, Dec, 26.
Achievements of the Popular Front were outlined to-day by M. Maurice Thorez, Secretary-General of the Communist Party at its congress.
Among these achievements were the forty-hour week, holidays on full pay, collective contracts, revaluation of agricultural products and the increase of popular pleasure organizations such as sports, tourism and education.
"Since the advent of the popular front," M. Thorez stated, "we are better off and can at least breathe." He then eulogized the Soviet regime, stating that the Soviet worker is "the "happiest in the worl Havas,
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