The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-06


constitute a force. And the workers
instinctively look round for allies, and
they find them. Where? OF course in
our country, in the Soviet Union.
They are beginning seriously to think
how it would be if they had genuine
workers government.
This process has developed in the
course of nine months. The Comm
tern had predicted it. However the
heads might be inclined, whatever
parliamentary combinations they play
ed, there went on the objective pro-
cess of the revolutionizing of the
working class of England, of course
only slowly up to now. And now
when Lloyd George and Curzon per-
ceiye that the masses are beginning
to speak of real power Of the work
ers, they decide that it is time to put
an end to this game. Macdonald has
been squeezed out by them like a
lemon and the continuation of this
game has become dangerous on ac-
count of the left tendencies of the
masses.
The bourgeoisie said; enough of this
fooling. They are not inclined to jest
over the question of who is to rule
and who is to be ruled. They have a
very keen class instinct and are pre-
pared to make every sacrifice for it.
aeDonald in the Unaccustomed Role
of an Impartial Witness on the Posi-
ton of Affairs in the Soviet Union.
What will be the result of the
struggle of the parties in the election
campaign? What will be the attitude
of the labor party? AS we have said.
Macdonald has no particular SYM
pathy for us. He had his hand in the
Georgian affair; as a leader of the
Second International he considered it
his chief task to prejudice the ideas of
Communism in the eyes of the work
ers. In spite Of that, in the present
election campaign the leaders of the
Macdonald labor party will be compel
led to tell the truth regarding the
Soviet Union, in other words, to make
propaganda for the Soviet Union.
They have no other course open to
them. The relation of forces is such
that the worst leaders of the Second
international will tell at least some
truths regarding the Soviet Union, the
home of the Third International
Even the English bourgeois press
makes pretty clear illusions to
MacDonaId's ambiguous position.
Something similar has occurred to
our Russian mensheviki. Abramo-
witch and Zeretei recently gave a re-
port at a sitting of the national adj
ministrative council of the indepen-
dent labor party upon the "cruelties"
in Georgia. At the end the question
was put to them: Shall the treaty
between the Soviet Union and Great
Britain be confirmed or not? And the
honorable Messrs Abramovitch and
Zereten replied: OF course it must be
confirmed. The Russian mensheviH
are in every respect dependent upon
the leaders of the English labor party
They know that the latter cannot do
otherwise than confirm the treaty be-
cause the masses so will it. Thus it
is that we witness an interesting his
torical paradox. as the chief section
of the Second International is COM
PEELED by the whole course Of history
to conduct the election campaign for
the greater part in favor of signing
the treaty. The events which are
now developing confirm this.
Campbell Has Also to be Defended.
will now deal with the Campbell
affair, which was the occasion for the
dissolution Of parliament. This COM
rade, as editor Of the weekly party
paper. some time ago published an
appeal to the English soldiers calling