The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-25
Hands Across the Seaw
Must Be Labor's Slogan
Until This War Is Won
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY, American workers. in all industries, may we'll
profit by the courageous mltancy of British labor ready
it to launch general strike that will cripple all &C
tvty of the capitalist order on the islands.
Labor in Great Britain is face to face with wholesale
CUTS similar to the crisis confronting the working class
in this country.
On two successive days there the the
threatened strike of the quarter million textile workers in the
RochdaIe (Yorkshre) mills and second the strike call OF
the million coal miners go into effect July 81 No hest
fancy here Just action The action of workers determined
to fight and win
The terrible plight Of the coal miners, linked with that
finish, has given birth the OuadrupIe Alliance, that has
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With the slogan that the time has come for the British
workers "strike together" the Quadrupe Alliance is
oementng the forces Of the coal miners the raiwaymen
the transport workers and the machnss How the class
collaborating American officials of labor must gasp when
announced that these British unions have pledged their
ments and constitutions to the contrary, TO ACT AS
DIRECTED BY THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE ALL
ANCE".
1t is significant that the only objection came from r.
Thomas of the rawaymen of the chiefs in the Social
st cabinet of the labor premier, J. Ramsay Macdonald
His was the only dscordan note His motion of opposition
did not even receive second.
The British workers can depended on to take care
of this weak link in their united front There many
such weak links to make the Triple Alliance in 1919
in the Quadrpe Alliance before goes actively into battle
The workers have also been taught that they cannot
depend the paramentarism of the Macdonald socialist
type that only helped asten the chains little tighter about
abors limbs. In fact, it the Macdonald ministry that
paved the way for the CONSUMPTION of British railway labor
during strikes
Thus the British workers without Illusions the
real of the between themselves and their
poters. They know is class that brings the social
revolution in its wake The miners know they lost with
the support of the workers in other industries And they
know that there nothing that will help them much
simultaneous strike by the coal miners of France, Belgium
Germany and the United States.
British Imperialism also knows the meaning of the
growing crisis. The Baldwin ministry fully conscious of
what it is about in trying form Baltic bloc against the
Union of Soviet Republics. 1t is only front which it
seeks to buWar its totteng rule Other spots
Egypt in India and especially in China. British tory rule
also tremendously anxious bring Germany the League
of Nations and CUT if it any sympathetic relations that
may exist between Berlin and Moscow and they
few.
All these complications give world Importance to the
rapidly developing clash between labor and capital in Great
Britain.
The left wing in the American labor movement
begin the fight that will halt single of
American scab coal going to Great Britain. This is only
the affair of the coal miners both in the union and
union fields but also of the rawaymen ongshoremen and
who will be called transport the coal intended
for strike-breaking purposes in Great Britain.
Labors left wing must also fight to have large part
of the copous funds of the rich unions diverted in support
of the British unions of which face the battle with
depleted treasures
Hands Across the Seal" should be the slogan of all
American labor in this fight.