The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-20

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publicly acknowledged as similar by
the British labor leaders. But Mac
Donald, the head of the labor gov
eminent, is faithless even to these
aims consequently Lloyd George is
considering the necessity of sending
Macdonald home.
Meanwhile, the revolt is brewing
and consolidating in the ranks of the
Labor party. The Clyde members of
the party, representatives of revolu-
tionary workers, are forced to bear
the shame and disgrace that the La
Dor government is heaping on the
working class of Great Britain. Not
yet Communist, not yet imbued with
the full spirit of fight, these leaders
are not yet filled with the will to
start an open fight--to split if necesp
sary They have to tolerate the spec
tacle Of the head Of the labor govern
ment making a travesty of the party
and of the labor government at the
convention of the Independent Labor
party-and yet they are not prepared
to split.
And yet all is not wine and honey
for the bourgeois labor party leader,
Macdonald. Millions of workers are
making demands on the capitalist en-
ployers. When Macdonald entered
office he faced a strickland these
strikes have continued. The work.
ers have not won-against them stood
the secret sabotage of the labor gov
eminent, which is determined to in
stall class collaboration and attempt
nothing that will jeopardize the exist
ence of the labor government. For
Macdonald and his colleagues of the
labor party wish to prove to the bour-
geoisie that socialism lin the form of
the second internationally is not such
dreadful thing; and that the work
ers organization in that international
are ready to assist in Reconstruction"
even tho such cooperation cost the
workers bread.
More Strikes in England
More strikes are looming-the
workers are encouraged to take the
step because of the existence of the
labor government. No wonder that
many a worker has said that when he
voted for the Labor party he had no
idea that it would act as it has. The
workers regarded the Labor party as
the organized political expression of
the working class of Great Britain.
Today he picks up the Daily Herald
to read that Macdonald makes COM
promise of Labor party principles
in order simply to hold on to office.
He wants two years Of it: the work
ers of Great Britain may imagine
what will remain of so-called Labor
party principles at the end of that
time.
Shortly after taking office Mac
Donald was asked what the connec-
ton of the Labor party is to the Ham
burg International. His reply was
most significant: that when the prin-
ciples Of British labor government
do not coincide with those of the
Hamburg International, the party is
tional The British Labor party is
the backbone of the Hamburg Inter-
national-which remains the Second
International despite the change of
it's name. Its absence of principle,
its cowardice, its treachery are being
compounded year by year. The Ger
man social-democracy and the British
Labor party, are showing up the in
ternational to which they belong: an
international of collaboration with the
bourgeoisie for the further enslave-
ment of the working class.
Danish Go Labor"
The world is to witness the spec
tacle of another so-called labor gov
eminent The recent elections in Dem
mark resulted in an increase of social
democratic votes A cabinet is to be
constructed by Staunting-a genuine
social-democratic ministry, which will
teach the Danish workers that the So
cialdemocrats will use the same CAPT.
talist methods that the bourbons en-
ploy: persuasion, compromise and
then force. 1t is the historical process
that the workers into whose minds
has been poured bourgeois philosophy
cannot turn to the left at once. They
must pass thru the illusion of gov
eminent Of their own" government
made up Of petty-bourgeois leaders
(even if once they were genuine work
ers and presumably revolutionary
leaders). The workers must learn
the lessons from their social-demo-
cratic leaders, treason and finally turn
! to the left--to the Communists.
The French socialists are not to be
outdone in this sport Altho the
French workers have seen thru the
hollowness of the French socialist
party the leaders Of that party-es-
pecially Blum-have been loud in
their assertions that Germany was
guilty of fomenting the world war and
that Germany must pay the full toll
Of the reparations. They know, as
well as the Berlin "Vorwaerts," the
organ Of the Social-Democrati party
knows, that the Preparations will be
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