Scott Nearing

“ If the Government would not stop the war, and if the League could not stop it, some new method must be found to meet the crisis. The leaders of progressive working class opinion in France decided that the only hope for effective opposition to the war lay in organized working class action. They therefore determined to oppose the war; to attack and expose the French ruling class during the war as war makers and war profiteers, and to make every effort to fraternize with their fellow workers in the "enemy country," the Riff. ”