The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-26
British Coal Miners to
Give MacD onald Their
Views on Dawes Plan
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

naronal LABOR Pdty gathering Ramsay Macdonald
became premier. 1t will give large of rank andf file
delegates from the trade unions and from the of
the Labor Party and the Independent Labor Party, OPP
pouny say what they think Of MacDonad government
What many of them will say, according reports, will
be very complimentary to Macdonald.
In the United States the big political parties gather
every four years. to frame platform and nominate cand
date for president The platform the party
ride successfully into office 1t is intended that
the platform promises should be carried The candidate
usually compromise to secure party harmony and keep
captalsn's political forces intact
After the convention the delegates sent home
to wait for another four years roll by Coolidge did not
report the Cleveland republican convention any than
did LaFoete to his gathering in the city, They
dictated their the assembled delegates expected
to be obeyed without question.
Macdonald would like to do the same in England. But
the British Labor Party affords little expression of opinion
is at least the sebance of forum for the discussion of
British Iabor's problems
Macdonald, like lot Of other labor" representatives
when they power adopt the Coolidge attitude Instead
of carrying out working class policies in the interests Of the
workers who had put him in he held to the capitalist
democratic fraud that he represents all the people,"
This attitude gets Tabor" politician into many tight
places especially when he is responsible to organization
like the British Labor Party.
Thus find the labor" premier, Macdonald, refusing
meet with depuation of coal miners discuss the sua
ton caused by the MorganDawes pan Macdonald turned
down the coal miners in the best style of Lloyd George and
Asquth the capitalist premers before him With the Labor
Party Conference looming big however, Macdonald changed
his mind, and decided hearing with the miners Oct l.
These British coal miners feel that the owners whip
that laid the backs Of the German working class
going hit them The 10 and the 12hour day Ger
at low under the Dawes pan turning cheap
coal that be bought and sold in the British market by
British proftees at great profit to themselves in
creasng unemployment among the British miners
These miners tell Premier Macdonald that there
10000 unemployed digges in the Northumberland
and Durham fields alone Macdonald helped Morgan Mellon
and Lamont put over the Dawes Plan Tn The British
Trade Unions told the British Trade Union Congress recent
M ne uno M
Russian and the British workers about this Wall Street plot
against all European labor
That should be interesting conference between the
delegation of the coal miners and Premier Macdonald Oct
less than week before the opening Of the Labor Party
Conference.
The coal diggers demand the naturalization of the
mines That is the first big issue the agenda of the Oct
7th gathering The miners will want to know why Mac
nonao me labor premier mas nor moved IN TINS orecton
is also demanded that the government take over the
Then there IS the resolution that the British Labor Party
affiliate with the Communist international.
There labor" politicians the British Labor Party
just there hordes Of political careersts attached to
the LaFolette movement in this country that make
the Communists These politicians have far prevent
ed the British Communist Party from winning affaon with
the Labor Party
labor has solved the problems of the British
workers. any than the attack of Compers and LaFo
ee Communists in the United States has presented the
workers and farmers of this country with solution of
problems The struggle under capitalism against the
poyeTS dictatorship contnueS JUST same continue
just long that dictatorship continues; until it is dis
placed with the rule of the workers.
Macdonald may think that the Dawes plan big step
towards world peace But that only shows that his mind
well his services has been captured by the British ruling
class Perhaps needed capturing But Macdonald
has paraded socialist for years. abeever the class
struggle of the workers against capitalism enemy of
capitalist And for this that he rather than
Arthur Henderson, open collaboration with capitalism
minister in the Kings war government became the PREMIER
Millions Of British workers still harbor the illusion that
just American workers indulge in the nightmare that
LaFoette going to find oasis for them the capitalist
desert.
Every act of the Macdonald government opening the
eyes of British workers. wider and wider.
When Macdonald at first efused to receive the deega-
ton Of coal miners he added thousands of
Communist ranks His defense of his labor" government
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