The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-29
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far-seeing representative Of the Eng
lish bourgeoisie. to compromise the
labor party in the eyes Of the English
colonial people, in the first place in
India, Egypt, Irak and now also in
China Has the bourgeoisie achieved
this aim? Yes, to a considerable ex-
tent. The Macdonald government is
seriously compromised in the eyes
of colonial peoples. AS regards Egypt,
India, and particularly Ireland and
now also China, it has carried on the
old policy, the same predatory, imper-
ialist, slave-holding policy as was car
ried on by Curzon. How pathetically
Macdonald expressed himself over his
own policy in his speech in Derby on
the 9th of September, when he de-
clared that not a single tory or liberal
can prove to the intelligent electors
of our country, that the name, the
respect, the stability, the prospects
and the position of our country have
suffered in the least in the eyes Of
the world under the labor government
This was as much as to say:
am no worse than Curzon or Lloyd
George, what more do you expect
from me? That is the import of the
speech Of Macdonald.
For What Purpose Did the English
Bourseoisie Need the Labor
Government?
If anybody had asked us for what
purpose the English bourgeoisie had
ventured on so hazardous game as
to let Macdonald take office,-which
it is true is a first class menshevist
government but still connected with
the working class-we already see
that the game was worth the candle.
To compromise the increasing power
of the working class, the only power
in which the suppressed colonial
peoples believed, this was some
thing worth while to Curzon and
Lloyd George. Paris is worth mass.
In this respect they have achieved
serious results. And when the Eng
fish working class will have settled
with the traitors, when they have not
royal labor government, not a sham
labor government, but real proletar-
ian workers government, then they
will have considerable pains in wiping
out from the consciousness of millions
of colonial slaves of England the inn
preston left behind by Macdonald.
The English bourgeoisie considered
it necessary to NEEDLE in Chinese pol
itics. They were far better able to-
carry this out under Macdonald than
they would have under Curzon. You
could see that the English working
class hardly reacted at all to the inn
perialist policy of Macdonald in
China. The proletariat of our Soviet
Union formed a Hands OF China"
League; in Germany this organization
met with great sympathy among the
working masses. The English work
ing class hardly raised a finger against
MacDonald's policy in China.
If Curzon had done the same as
Macdonald 1t would have been easier
to rouse protest amongst the work
ing class against this policy.
Finally, if you are familiar with the
notorious Dawes plan. This plan was
almost hailed as a victory for con
structive socialism," at any rate as a
victory for pacifism. AS a matter. Of
fact, it is becoming continually clearer
that it is moose round the neck of
the workers of Germany and of a
number of other countries. 1t was
more convenient for the capitalists to
have this work" carried out by
Macdonald than by Curzon. In this
question England outwardly played
the first fiddle. 1t was not without
reason that the leader of the conser-
vatives, Baldwin. at the annual con-
ference Of the party in Newcastle.
fully approved Of the policy of
Macdonald in this question and dis