The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-25
Imperialist Policies of
British Empire Are not
Changed by Macdonald
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY, the inperast policies Of Great Britain are the
always, in spite of the fact that the Macdonald
labor" government holds the reins of power Macdonald
may hold the reins but British finance capital tells him where
and how to drive And always the drive against the inter-
ests of the oppressed.
1t is the British government power in the hands Of
the labor PREMIER Ramsay Macdonald Of the lead
ing figures in the Second (Sooiaist) International is
plotting to overthrow the nationalist revolutionary govern
ment Of Sun Vat Sen, in Southern China
is the Socialist" Macdonald who has put his 20 K"
this drive behalf of the British money lords crush
the liberation of Chnas oppressed strug
Cling shake off the rule of their native bankers and rich
merchants in league with the international money kings
The rich oil fields in the Near East call for the greatest
effort of British imperialism to maintain its position
against French and American competition There the Mac
Donald labor government stands back Of the British
troled Ango-Persan Oil Company Just as sody and with
the anxious and socous cooperation that Secretary
Of State Hughes gives the Standard Oil Trust in the same
corner OF the world.
is the British government in the hands Of the $50
cat Macdonald that plots the overthrow of the present
ruler of Aghanstan friend of Soviet Rule in Russia who
proclaimed his independence of the British throne in 1919
Donald carrying in the Near East but the old imperial
st policies of Cuzon These the policies that have
vailed during liberal and tory ministries alike in Great
Britain and that continue under the labor" premier,
Macdonald who is opposed to Soviet Rule and makes war
on Communism
significant that this week. when workers the world
celebrating the Goth Anniversary of the First Inter-
national under Communist inspiration that Macdonald the
socialist premier of England should be agreeing to the
Ebert, for admission the Black international of World
Capitalism the League of Nations
In the hour that the Communist international ceIe-
brang the first effort go years ago. under the leadership of
Karl Marx to organize the workers OF the world into dis
the socialist premier of the British empire and the so
cast president of Germany give their support to the in
ernatona of the biggest bandits of the robber business
interests.
These Socialists" who have been raised power in
organize attempt the overthrow of Russian Soviet
Rule and the crushing Of the spirit of awakened labor every
where
Even before he became PREMIER Macdonald did his ut
most to overthrow Soviet Rule in Georgia, and
labor premier he seeks the aid of capass international
to Soviet Georgia from the Union Of Socialist Soviet
Republics and restore the rule OF the bankers and the land
lords in this Near East country, British imperialism
maintains its sway other oppressed nations whether in
Egypt, India or China.
It is into this same that the
campaign would lead the workers and farmers of the United
States. Under the appeal of Get something now under
capitalism, LaFoette lures the workers and farmers away
from their main objective, which is to overthrow capitalism
and establish their rule
LaFoette, in power, would be different than Mac
Donald in power England Ebert in power in Germany;
agents of the bourgeose uphold capitalist rule
the hand and to crush every effort to establish Workers
Rule the other
international problems do interest Mr. LaFoIIette
Wall Street may subugae Mexico Central and South Amer
ca 1t may send its warshps to crush the revolutionary spirit
of the Chinese doing 1t may page the islands of the
the Philippines, Cuba Porto Rico and Haiti is
doing LaFoIette only turns his attention to domestic
matershow best keep the workers and farmers
tented at home under capitalism
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he celebration of the Goth anniversary of the birth of
the First international the first effort of world labor build
international organization is fitting time the
workers and farmers against those depcabe slaves of
capitalist mperaIsnl-Ebert in Germany; Macdonald, in
Great Britain; LaFoette in the United States.
In the of the revolutionary struggles of the work.
of China of the peoples of the Near East of aspiring
humanity everywhere let the workers and farmers of the
United States enlist in larger numbers than ever the
standards of the Communist International thru Joining the
Workers Party giving untirng support to the
FosterGtlow ticket in this years presidential campaign.
Only along the road to Communism lies the way that leads
to the victory of the workers and farmers. II