False assertions concerning former Premier Leon Blum and Secretary-General Leon Jouhaux of the General Confederation of Labor were made in a recent Italian radio broadcast, it was revealed here today.
In a statement protesting “Malecent insinuations” against the working class, assertedly contained in a speech by premier Edouard Daladier at the radical socialist congress, the Confederation, which represents nearly 5,000,000 French workers, declared:
“There might be some ex-convicts among the workers’ delegates. In this case, they’ should be denounced and dismissed in compliance with the law. but one has no right, in public debate, to throw suspicion on the entirety of republican workers. such methods are only admissible in fascist regimes. furthermore, we are obliged to note that at the very moment the premier proffered his outrageous insinuations against the workers’ delegates, the Italian radio propaganda broadcast that: ‘The public prosecutor has demanded the arraignment of Blum and Jouhaux, implicated in a vast criminal affair discovered in Marseille and in which 150 policemen and local officials were reported to be involved.”
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