The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-04
AS WE SEE IT
BY T. j. o'FLAHERTV.

LII hHShNIAIlNBS OF labor are
~ allowed a certain =. freedom of
speech in Great Britain, declared Sir
w. JOHNSON Hicks. secretary for home
affairs, in answer to questions raised
in the house Of commons relative to
the announced intention Of the gov
eminent to bar foreign Communists
from entering England. This means
that as much freedom Of speech as is
compatible with the security OF the
capitalist state is allowed an admis-
sion which explodes the fable so Sc
dulously cultivated by Anglomaniacs
that Britain is the cradle of free
speech and Individual liberty.
THIS was true so long as the speech
4 es were harmless or economic con-
danger Of the speeches being followed
by action. But those golden days are
gone forever. There are 100000 of
British workers unemployed and with
every likelihood that this condition
is not a passing one. This standing
WI hACoo 10 q COAOtahS AACh0SO
to the wage scales Of those who are
employed. After all the question of
filling the stomachs of the people is
the rock on which governments crack.
THE British government would not
4 permit foreign working class agi-
tators to come and make speeches
against capitalism, said Sir Hicks, but
he did not say that the same rule
would be employed In the case Of fore
ign capitalist representatives spouting
against the Soviet government. We
note that the tory police department
was not able to keep out delegates to
the Communist convention held in
Glasgow. Buchanan, labor member
from that city told the tory home
secretary that he would welcome the
Communist convention oficially, as 1t
would take place in his constituency
and that he thot no Communist in the
convention would make a more ex-
treme speech than himself.
LNHILE the left members Of the
w British labor party are talking
thusly, the right honorable ]. H. Tho
mas is writing pamphlets boosting the
empire, which he says is trust that
must be developed for the benefit of
"all the people," With Thomas are
associated Ramsay Macdonald, Phillip
Snowden, Sidney Webb. ]. R. Cynes
and other socialists. This shows that
the label of socialism means little
more in England than 1t does in
France or the United States.
THE social democrats in Austria are
4 kicking up a shindy because the
bourgeois foreign minister delivered
an anti-Soviet speech recently. Not
that the social-democratic leaders of
Austria have any more love for the
Soviet Union than their prototypes in
Germany or England, but the Soviet
government placed several large or
ders in Austria giving employment to
thousands of social democratic work
crs. AS result of the anti-Soviet at
tack the workers republic cancelled
the orders. Hence the howl from the
social-democratic leaders.
OUR paciist American socialists
" who beat the air about dictar-
torship and Red Army in Soviet
Russia do not feature the presence
in Austria of social democratic mill
tary force Of 100000 workers. The
social-democrats of Germany also have
their military organizations. The main
difference between the attitude to-
wards the use of force expressed by
the Communists and socialists is that
the former use force against capital
ism while the latter use 1t to defend
the robber system against revolution.
nR. NORMAN THOMAS is not a
~ die-hard defender Of majority
o..oeffou arfaQq that