The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-17
BY WILLIAM F. dunno.
ARTICLE vi

ldDOT on the preparations OF the BIZ
fish ruling class for war on the
workers.
Such desperate measures as the or
ganization of the o. M. S. and its
open attachment to the police and
military forces indicates that the Bri-
fish rulers take a serious view of the
situation and that, while the reports
of the growth of the revolutionary
spirit among the British workers may
have been exaggerated, there is no ex-
aggeTation in the statement that the
British empire is definitely on the
decline; in other words, the objective
situation in the empire is that which
Zinoviev has described as generally
revolutionary"
NOR are the British rulers the only
IN section Of the capitalist class
which senses impending upheavals in
Great Britain. The Chicago Tribune
says editorially:
The British Twilight or Only a
Cloud?
British board Of trade reports
for September increased $4,000, 900
over August. Exports showed a de-
crease of $1,515, 900. Coal exports
were $10,3s1 900 under the exports
of September, 1924, and the coal in
.dustry is now subsidized. British in
dustry is not sustaining the life Of
the country, which is buying more
abroad to meet its needs and pro-
ducing less at home. The balance
is growing against it.
Unemployment remains. The dole
keeps the helpless elements of citi-
zenship alive and Furnishes the citi-
zenship which is still seIf-sustain-
ing. The outlook is bad. The breed
is stout hearted but it has not made
the turn. Is there to be no turn?
No great nation as yet has been
lasting. Nations have had flashes
ness, but none yet has had founda-
tions for even the time of history.
The island is in bad times. Some
day the British will be in their re-
cessionaI. We do not know what
the world will be like then or when
it will be, but whenever it is, they
were good while they lasted and
they lasted long time.
CURELY the world has changed
~ when a great American capitalist
paper can write in this vein about
the nation which ten years ago was
the most powerful in the world. And
now comes the news that the Office OF
the home secretary, the same Sir
William Joynson-Hicks whose adven
lures in fascism have already been
noted, has raided the Office of the Bri
fish Communist Party and the Minor
ity Movement, arrested Harry Polliti
and others and have warrants out for
twenty more fighting workers.
Saklatvala could have predicted this
development to American working
class audiences had he been allowed
to come here and a still clearer idea
of the hatred the British rulers have
for him is gained now from the news
dispatches which tell of a movement
instigated by the tories to remove him
from the house of commons.
ONE could, from this side of the
" ocean, have forecast the recent
attack on the revolutionary section Of
the British working class the Com
-munists, which in this period especial
ly, means an attack on the whole Bri.
fish labor movement.
The American capitalist press has
been paying the closest attention to
the class struggle in Great Britain
and The New York Times of October
8, contained a broad hint that the
Baldwin government was getting
ready for drastic action. In its edi-
torial comment on the speech of Pre-
mler Baldwin to the convention Of the
conservative party at Brighton, This
Times said:
II Is for it's domestic policy that
the Baldwin government has been