The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-15
TORY CABINET
PROBING ITS
own red PLOT
Ramsay Macdonald Is
ShownUp in Mutt Role
Especial to the paIIy Worker,


Especial TO the Daily Workerl
LONDON, Nov. 14.-The for
eign office has qualified it's as
sertion that the question of re-
vocation of trade agreements
with Soviet Russia was not UNI
der consideration, by saying
that if the cabinet inquiry Of
the "Zinoviev note" warranted,
I the whole question Of relations
would be taken up.
zInovievs Counter Charge.
The foreign office statement init.
mated that recognition and allied ques-
tons might come under cabinet scrut.
my if no substantiation were found
for the charges Of Gregory Zinoviev,
president Of the Communist Interna-
tional, that his alleged note to British
Communists was a forgery.
This forged note was the means
whereby British spy in Moscow was
caught by the Soviet cheka, according
to reports. This spy had obtained &C.
cess to important documents and pho.
Itographed them. AS nothing in them,
however, warranted disturbance in the
relations between England and the
Soviet government, the plan was laid
by the cheka whereby the spy, then
under suspicion, would be proven a
spy by what the British government
did after he had photographed a let
ter, supposed by him to be genuine,
which the cheka planted for him and
which contained imaginary plots di.
rected against Britain supposedly by
Zinoviev.
Tories Used Trick on Ramsay.
AS the tories, under Ramsay Mac.
Donald, the Tabor" premier, control
led the admiralty and army depart.
ments Of the British government and
were in charge Of all the technical
work even in the foreign office, when
the photograph of the forged letter
reached Great Britain, it was copied
and secretly given to the conserva-
tive newspaper, the Daily Mail and
leaders of the conservative party.
AS the cheka in Moscow had put
into the forged and planted note the
amusing suggestion ito the British
Communists" that Ramsay MacDon.
aid was a good fellow and, being pre-
mier, was in a position to aid in over
throwing the English government, the
conservatives waited until the eve of
election day. Then the slick tories in
the foreign office persuaded MacDon
aid that he could make a big hit by
publishing the thing, together with
sharp note to the Soviet government,
and thus show that he, Ramsay, was
standing for no foolishness from the
Bolsheviks.
Ramsay Renlged Too Late.
AS the conservative party had
planned, the effect of the publication
of the forgery damaged Macdonald
in the eyes of the bamboozled British
people, and the conservatives did
everything possible to connect Mac
Danad with Bolshevism and brighten
the nervous electors. Altho MacDon-
aid reniged at late hour and said he
thought the note forgery, it was too
late and the election went against
him.
Paregoric for Public.
The statement made previously that
the conservative cabinet would not
consider revocation of the recognition
of Soviet Russia has been seen to be
politically unwise in the consideration
Of the tory leaders, it is thot, and the
present qualification issued to soothe
the nerves OF the public which does
not understand the trick put over by
the Baldwin conservatives upon Mac
Donald and the labor party regime.
The British government recognized
Soviet Russia for business reasons,
not because of affection for Bolshev-
ism, and the same reasons argue
against any revocation. English state
craft is equal to the occasion, and will
probably marage to escape from
zinoviev's charges by laying all the
blame on Ramsay Macdonald without
breaking off profitable relations with
Russia.