The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-13
The Movement for World Trade Union Unity

The well known English economist places the national in
come of Britain in 1900 at 917000000 and 1920 at 4OOO
600 900 or 28 times more Sir Stamp calculated the
ona wealth 1919 G15O23OOOOOO Prof Henry Gay o
Manchester University declares twohds of the national
wealth in the hands OF less than TWO per cent Vi Tue pp
Regarding the physical the British working class
Premier Baldwin stated speech that of eight volunteers
to the army rejected grounds of physical untness
Regarding remedies for unemployment the minister Oh oO
Steel Maitland speech during the debate on unem
ployment house of commons stated therefore wne
people like General Thompson with impatient sstence as
what prepared reply that none have been
prepared that there schemes to prepare.
This amounts official admission by spokesman OF the
British capitalists that they cannot solve the problem OF
The decline of British industry caused by % The effects
the the of debts increased French
competition of reparaton coal and IRON
(2) The growth capitalist industry in the colonies such
as India the dominons such Canada and Australia
port commodities themselves S) The increased competition
of the United States.
bay thousands of textile workers into the streets in Ian
cashre The growth Of great capitalist rne
the past the mperas psychology of great numbers OF the
economic basis in the fact that the super
profits derived exploitation underad colonial slaves
supply them with comparatively high standard OF
peraists to the backbone But today capitalists
budened taxation growing out Of the effects OF the war and
the curamen of industry no longer afford to bride these
with better wages and conditions in the period OF
capitalist expansion prior the world The significance Of
the recent conflicts In Britain lies In the act that was
wages of skilled workersthe railroad workers. engineers
and building workers that the bosses attacked Recently Mr.
Stanley Machn prominent member OF the British chamber OF
Commerce. stated that the wages of the 100000 workers In the
Sheltered trades must be reduced BY sheltered trades ne
highly skilled workers organized in unions who
pied privileged position far and hours are concerned
These hard economic facts the basis of the rehabilitation
British labor Besides this the British workers
thru political experiences which enlghen
millions of them to their class position In society,
1920 the Polish Soviet Russia supported by
Lloyd George and Churchill planning to de-
the workers republic and crush it. All the
the workers organized councils of action prevent
Russia Lloyd George forced abandon the offensive
and declared cy that the councils of action swinging
empty door with sledgehammer attempting pretend
that intended to declare Soviet Russia But
the workers what could be accomplished by united action
In 1921 the attack of the mine the of the
miners made the question of the triple alliance of miners railroad
and transport workers going into action together Of
practical Importance The workers defeated by the BLACK
Friday" betrayal Of Thomas Hodges Co in calling off the
strike of the triple alliance But the workers added to their
perienceby seeing Lloyd George the country foot