The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-17
RAID BRITISH
COMMUNISTS.
ARREST SIX
Capitalists Begin Attack
on Labor
Especial TO The. Daily Worker,

palgn in the capitalist press to raise
a fred scare, the British government
last night, with Scotland Yard as
slsting Home Secretary Sir William
Joynson-Hicks, England's chief fred
batter, raided the offices Of the
British Communist Party and the Ma
tional Minority Movement of the left
wing labor unionists, arrested six
officials Of these movements and
seized all literature and files.
Those arrested include Ross Camp
bell. editor Of the Workers Weekly,
Albert Inkpin, secretary Of the Com
munist Party, w. R. Cant, William
Gallagher, t. w. Wintring, and Harry
Poflitt, the latter a prominent leader
Of the National Minority Movement
and a member of the Boilermakers
Union.
First Step To Cut Wages
The raids indicate a further step
of British capitalists to prepare to de-
feat the working class when the mine
owners again try to reduce wages next
May.
Harry Pollitt, in explaining the po-
sition of the Communist Party says
in recent issue of the Sunday
Worker
Preparation For Next May
"The period between now and next
May is looked upon as a preparatory
80 a., ,,,hfol, tIo ~ nifoIio+c a 70 rra-
pairing the greatest attack upon the
wages and conditions Of the whole
working class that this country has
yet known.
1T was in this situation that the
Communist Party issued the call to
the whole labor movement that it
should also prepare for next May, and
that one of the first measures to be
taken was to commence a campaign
among the forces, not for armed insur-
rection, but to insure that our COM
rades in the forces should thoroughly
understand the difficulties and strug
giles of their comrades in the factories
and the unemployed. so that in the
event of big strikes and lockouts, the
workers in the forces will refuse to
be used as scabs or refuse to shoot
upon their industrial comrades if the
situation provokes such a necessity.
"The question before us. then, is
not should the workers arm. but shall
we educate the workers who have al
ready got arms, so that they will
realize they are part of the working
class, and are prepared to act ac-
cordingly
"If the workers attempt to resist
the coming attack Of the capitalists, it
is impossible for the capitalists to &C
cept such situation without resort
ing to every weapon they possess to
defeat the workers. In the last
analysis they depend upon the ODE
dience of the mass of armed forces.
The mass of the forces are workers,
drawn from our class.
1--WE must remember our class is
engaged in a life and death struggle.
We must have not only the unity OF
the workers in industry, but unity OF
the workers in the forces as well. If
our movement neglects this, we shall
pay very dearly for it during the next
two or three years"
These are the sort Of arguments
which have stirred the British CAPT
talist government to attempt to sup
press the Communist Party before the
crisis comes between labor and ca
pital next May.
May ExpeI saklatvaIa
An English financial writer who
keeps Wall Street informed of British
affairs, recently wrote that an at
tempt will be made to expel Saklat
vala. Communist member Of parlia-
ment from parliament for sedition
under the precedent established by
the expulsion of Wilkes in 1869.
An indication of the close co-opera-
tion between the recently engaged ia.
scist o. M. S. and the suppressive for
ces OF government, is the boast Of ca
pitalist spokesman that the o. M. S. is
quartered at st. Stephens House,
close by the quarters of Scotland
Yard. The o. M. S. is headed by
dozen big capitalists, many bearing