The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-20
AS WE SEE 1T
By t. J. o'FLAHERTY.

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President Oregon Of Mexico, sent
condolences to the Russian Soviet
government on the death of its great
leader Lenin. But Ramsay MacDon-
aid did not, tho he cabled his re-
grets to Washington when the no.
torious mountebank Woodrow Will
son quit the world he had helped to
make safe for the ruling class.
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| When Ramsay Macdonald recog-
nized the Soviet government, he
followed that action up by state
ment that che would stand no mon
key business from the Soviet govern
ment." Ex-premier Stanley Bald
win remarked that Mr.. Macdonald
would not dare use such language in
addressing either the United States
or French governments.
American Socialist papers have
placed all their eggs in the British
Labor Party basket and are furious
ly defending every act of the Ram
say Macdonald government. A re-
cent issue of the Oakland World.
edited by a group Of pacifists, tells
US that even tho the British La
Dor Party can accomplish nothing in
parliament, it is better that it should
stay in, doing nothing than get out
and allow somebody else in. For
instance, a socialist has the Job of
cleaning out King Georges garbage.
Another sees that his sleeping quar-
tiers are free from unpleasant COM
pany which might cause his Majesty
to consume much valuable energy
scratching himself at night. Then,
there is the Scotch socialist turnkey
who is in charge Of the Church Of
Scotland. All nice jobs.
They can do lots of things in these
positions the Oakland World argues.
They can promote international
peace (by laying the keels for seven
new warships); liberate oppressed
peoples, (by shooting fourteen Hin
doc rebels and dropping bombs on
Mesopotamia). The labor govern
ment of England, our socialist con-
temporary goes on, has already done
a good deal for world peace. It has
done so much that we have a new
dictatorship in Europe, since Ramsay
Macdonald assumed office. With the
aid of Morgan's 500, 100000. Poin-
care has assumed the dictatorship Of
that country.
Macdonald released the Hindoo
pacifst Ghandi, and assured the Hin
docs of sympathy in their move for
self government, says the Oakland
World. Ghandi was released. He is
now supporting England against the
lreal Hindoo rebels. The latter part
of the statement is a deliberate lie.
Macdonald sternly warned the Hin
doc that his government would stand
no nonsense about independence
from India. The Irish Republicans
asked him what he was going to do
about self-determination, which he
bleated about before he came into
power. He did not reply. He has
repudiated the capital levy plank in
his platform and the naturalization
plank. Like the Socialist Party Of
America, the British Labor Party has
thrown overheard everything it ever
stood for, that means ANYTHING to
the workers, but it will hold to the
jobs to the very last.
The Ramsay Macdonald govern
ment is just as imperialistic as
either the Tories or Liberals. Il is
seeking to harmonic the contradic-
tons within the capitalist system as
its brother party in Germany did.
The Social Democrats of Germany
are today thrown on the dung heap
OF history while the exploited work.
ers of that unhappy country spit on
them as they pass. Ramsay Mac
Donald and his partners in the be-
trayal of the workers interests will
travel the same road. They will be
tolerated by the capitalist parties so
long as they serve them, but when
the workers get thoroly disgust
ed with them they will be booted
out into the cold world by the British
ruling class.
The Chicago Tribune comments as
follows on the Dawes Commission.
"The Dawes commission is a Morgan
commission, and Poincare who has
taken help from Morgan, must ac-
cept the findings of the Dawes COM
mission or the help will be with
drawn and France win be in the ruin
of its currency" Yet the Morgan
Dawes commission was unofficially
blessed by the Coolidge government
and in a recent comment on the
100000 loan Of Morgan to enable
Poincare to become dictator, Cool
Iidge declared that the United States
government was behind the loan.
Perhaps the esteemed Tribune thinks
Morgan is not running this country
as successfully as he is running
France. Well, we'll say he Is.
If our readers have any doubts as
to whether democracy exists in the
| United States we urge them to 60
over our "Teapot Special" very care