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send M. Rakowsky home. It is be-
lieved he is only too willing to do this
in order to win out at the election.
The chief issue in the campaign has
been the Russian treaty. The labor
party officials were divided on the
question, the leader of the bankers
opposition being Philip Snowden,
prominent British socialist. Since the
campaign opened Macdonald has been
trying to dodge every issue that had a
class character, and tho he was Of
ficially supporting the Russian treaty,
even since this alleged document came
into his possession, he now sends out
orders to all the labor party speakers
to knife the Anglo-Russian pact.
Until his assumption Of office Ram
say Macdonald protested to favor
revolution in England. 1t had been
the aim of British socialists and of
late their most prominent leaders have
repudiated this aim. The Communists
openly declare their intention Of over
throwing the capitalist system and its
government at the first opportunity.
There is no mystery about that and
it did not require secret document"
from Zinoviev to set the machinery
in motion. The Orders from Mos
COW" are so evidently manufactured
that the stunt will not hold water tho
it may stick until the campaign is
over.
Forced to Sign.
The British bankers have been car
rying on strong fight against the
treaty and it appears their work has
borne fruit. In the first place Mac
Donald would never have signed the
treaty but for the pressure of the
left wing of the Trade Union Con-
gress and the British Labor Party. A.
Purcell, chairman of the British Trade
Union Congress and E. d. Morel, M.
p, have written a booklet entitled,
"The Workers and the Anglo-Russian
Treaty" The authors say: "The foes
Of the Anglo-Russian treaty are to be
found among those who are the bit.
terest opponents of the rights, liber-
ties and aspirations of the British
working class"
Macdonald gained considerable
prestige among the British workers
as a result of his signing the treaty.
How they will take his latest act of
treachery is yet too early to state with
accuracy.
The Big Problem.
Since the Dawes plan was put over
ON Germany, the main problem con-
fronting the allied statesmen was to
prevent the export of products from
Germany from injuring their own
home interests and their own
markets. Naturally, unless Ger
many exports products, she cannot
pay reparation. The only market
the allied statesmen saw available
was the Russian market, so they
figured they could make more money
out Of the slave-driven German workers
than by loaning money to Soviet Rus
STA with which the workers and peas
ants government could build up its
own manufacturing machinery.
But there is much more than the
Russian treaty involved in the latest
scandal of the Macdonald regime.
The secret orders" document was is
sued by a permanent official Of thel
foreign office. This alleged document
was first secured, according to reports
when the German capitalist govern
ment raided the Soviet embassy sew
eral months ago. 1t was sent to the
British government and held under
lock and key. During this time Mac
Donald was ndulginu In words of
praise Of the Soviet delegation and
finally signed treaty with them,
while knowing Of the existence of the
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