The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-13

DAMSAf MACDOA x,"
IN London again after his heai1n1
visit to the Bermudas. ]. H. Thomas
former colonial minister returned with
him. Both have improved in health, so
the papers say but the same cannot
be said for their political prospects,
Since the labor government moved
its furniture on of Downing street, in
teresting developments have taken
place in England, developments that
do not promise to place much to the
credit side Of MacDonald's ledger.
THE British trade union delegation
that went to Russia to see what
it could see, has returned, and with the
exception of one, who has thrown his
lot in with Emma Goldman, they
have unanimously agreed that Soviet
Russia is making wonderful progress
and that the workers and peasants
feel that they have little heaven
upon earth all their own since the
car was turned into manure.
THE delegates grabbed an eyeful OF
Russia and headful of new
ideas. When these ideas were
imported into England, quite hor-
nets nest was turned loose but the
left wing elements are in the lead and
it looks as if unity between the Rus
sian unions and the trade union move
ment of the rest of the world, barring
the benighted states of America, is
now a foregone conclusion.
EVERYTHING considered, events
= are moving rapidly in England
and England is still the big frog in
the European capitalist puddle. Zinc
view delivered a speech in Moscow
recently during which he said that it
was quite likely England would make
another attack on Russia in the near
future thru Poland and Roumania. The
British ruling class are the most
accomplished and shameless liars on
earth and the recent assurances given
Rakovsky by the British tory foreign
secretary, to the effect that England
was not organizing hostile forces
against Russia are not worth the
breath on which they were carried.
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1T does not require prophetic vision
4 however to predict that war on
Soviet Russia by the British govern
ment either directly or thru its
political prostitutes, on the border OF
Russia, will be a very serious under
taking indeed, considering the fact
that In the last elections seven
million votes were cast for the labor
party, and that the leadership Of
these masses is rapidly passing into
the hands of that element which
looks to strong friendly relations
between the workers of England and
Russia as of vital necessity. Britain
fears on the other hand that unless
she brushes Soviet Russia now, the
propaganda of the Communist Inter
national in India and among the
hundreds Of millions of exploited
British colonial slaves will bring the
robber empire topping to ruin. Like
the religious fatalist, Britain is
damned if she does and damned If
she don't"
THE members of the United States
army may be interested to know
that their business is now on cash
basis and that its activities are boom
ing, II we are to believe the headlines
in the New York Times. Not so
comforting is the news that S3 ma
tional cemeteries are now maintained
in the United States and eight in
Europe. Cemeteries like warships are
intended for use and not for ornament.
But according to the patriots, all
soldiers use up most of their mental
energy wishing for an opportunity to
die, so the prospect of getting into a
good properly gardenered cemetery
will appeal to their sense of the
eternal fitness OF things.
NOU may have heard of the
Il Chemical Warfare Service. II
sounds wicked. People connect it ur
with posion gas, tear gas, mustard gas
and carbolic acid gas. But II we are
to believe the publicity agents OF the
war department. the c. w. s. is
engaged in such civilized work as
making the boil weevil weep. and
curing hay fever. The boil weevil
activities may be by way OF an exper-
iment to try out new gases which we
are informed are being developed as
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