The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-06


ToHN BULL is sng worried over
revolutionary propaganda in Eng
land. This is most astounding news.
In fact Sir William Joynson-Hicks,
home secretary, announced that he
has discovered a conspiracy fostered
in Moscow which has for its object
the subversion Of the existing social
order. This is new achievement
for Scotland Yard. We shake with
terror lest some Sherlock Holmes
should dig up copy of Das Kapital
and spring it on the unsuspecting
Communist International.
NOTHING less than foul con-
spiracy to send the capitalist
class to work is on foot, says Hicks,
and the dirty work is being done in
England as elsewhere. What have j.
II. Thomas and Ramsay Macdonald
been doing all this time? kissing the
kings toe, is not, after all, the best
way to keep down revolutionary pro-
paganda One may ask the question
why has Britain become so keenly
alive to the Communist peril all of a
sudden?
britain has boosted of being the
- motherland Of parliamentary gov
eminent and the house of commons
has been known all over the world as
the mother of parliaments" As long
rs the gas bags who participated in
that parliament politely disagreed
with the honorable gentlemen of the
opposition" and went their way re
joicing over their exhibitions of
eloquence and hoping that the minis
terial bench would take mental note
Of their usefulness to the empire at
some future date, everything was sit
ting pretty. But a Hindoo Commun.
list with the queer and suspicious
name Of Saklatvala (sounds like bag
full Of daggers) gets up in the house
Of commons today and seriously
questions the existence of grey matter
under the royal dome.
MORSE than that. Left wing labor
W party members declare that the
royal family is about as useless as a
monkey without a tail in a forest.
Great uproar from ministerial benches.
Fast beating OF hearts of Messrs
Ramsay Macdonald. Philip Snowden,
]. II. Thomas and other socialists
Mrs Philip Snowden layes the kings
feet with her tears and dries them
with her hair But still the dirty
work goes on. The nerves Of the
British ruling class become more rag
gy. The calm and serene mother of
parliaments" is no longer the kind
parent of yore to all her children.
She now rants and raves like
swindled prostitute.
THINGS are coming to a pretty pass
when member of the British
cSS breaks into the front page
Va story of revolution in England
and in Europe. What's the idea? The
reason is not far to seek. Things
are happening in England, not only in
side the house of parliament-that's
where some of the talking is done
out outside in the public squares and
inside in the factories and union halls.
The workers are awakening. The new
leadership of the British trade unions
have grasped the hand of comrade-
ship extended by their Russian COM
rades and new international labor
movement, unified and revolutionized
is in the making. That is one of the
reasons why Mr.. Hicks threw this
latest scare into the ranks of the
bourgeoisie and the yellow socialist
leaders.
THERE is another reason. British
rule in the colonies is sitting on
a vulcano. The British posterior is
constantly irritated by a ceaseless
sputtering underneath but there is
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