The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-13
BALDWIN IN TORY
CONF ABB ASSAILS
BRITISH REBELS
Communists Will Not Be
Blufed by Him

LONDON, Oct. 11.-Prime Minister
Stanley Baldwin in an address before
the annual meeting of the Unionist
(Tory) party at Brighton last night
continued the bombastic threats
against the reds that have lately come
forth with monotonous regularity
from spokesman for the government,
promised a reduction In taxes next
year and expressed confidence that
both International conferences now in
session, one in LocaTno and the other
in Shanghai, would terminate salts
factorily for the empire,
Stealing the thunder Of his prede-
cessor J. Ramsey Macdonald, the
prime minister asserted that work
toward the pacification Of Europe was
the major task of the government at
this time.
AssaiIs Communists
In the part Of his speech devoted
to the unemployed problem he tried
to divert attention from the growing
army OF jobless workers by launching
into vitriolic attack against the
Communists. Expressing his alarm at
the tremendous growth of Commun-
ist influence in England he predicted
that "the Communists will fail here
as they failed in the United States
and Germany, and will fail in France"
This ludicrous assertion evoked sar-
castle smiles from the more enlight-
ened of the Tories who realized the
absurdity of comparing the situation
in the United States with that in
Germany. Baldwin probably meant
that the British government was pre-
pairing to use the methods of Palmer
and Daugherty against the reds in
Britain
Must Not "Seduee" Troops
In his attack on the Communists
Baldwin said: 1.-THE government will
employ all the power the law gives to
deal with attempts to seduce the
troops with seditious speeches.
The government is fully alive to the
danger and will do itslutmost to pro-
tect the best interests of the coun-
try" The best interests" being, in
the lexicon of Baldwin, the interests
of the most reactionary strata of the
ruling class.
Pact Should BE Simple
Referring to the security pact at
Locarno, where Austin Chamberlain,
British foreign minister is trying to
create a bloc against Soviet Russia,
Baldwin said the difficulty had been
to keep the schema, simple and
straight forward. and Iferred to the
proposal that GerpsbyA, enter the
league Of nations.
On the subject OF Irak he did not
forget the world struggle for oil and
asserted that the legal right of Irak
Ia British protectorateJ to the prov
ince of Mosul was as good as her
legal right to any Aother part of her
territory" a.
In dealing with home questions he
concluded by promising concessions
to the petty bourgeoisie elements, ad-
vocating reforms in the house of lords
and reduction of taxes, neither of
which he can possibly hope to carry
out In the first place the nabobs
in the house of lords will resent any
meddling even from the tory govern
ment of Baldwin and in the second
place the imperative. necessity of
maintaining and even increasing the
unemployed dole makes reduction of
taxes absolutely impossible.
The Communist Party of Great
Britain will not in any manner re-
frain from its work among the armed
forces Of the nation and in respect
tc so-called seditious utterances will
openly defy Baldwin and his govern
ment.