The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-26
"Hands Across the Sea!w
Must Be Labor's Slogan
Until This War Is Won
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY, 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 ac-
tvity 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 news of the
threatened strike of the quarter million textile workers in the
RochdaIe (Yorkshire) mills and second the strike call of
the million coal miners 60 into effect July 81 No hest
fancy here Just action The action OF workers determined
TO fight and Wn
The terrible plight Of the coal miners linked with that
of other workers. and the determination to fight 1t to the
finish, given birth the Ouadrupe Alliance that has
asd promise o. success ""''' '"' p' Na"'' Of '
workers "strike together the 0uadrupe Alliance
cementng the forces of the coal miners the raiwaymen
collaborating American officials of labor must gasp when
is 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"
significant that the only objection came from H.
Thomas Of the awaymen, of the chiefs the Social
is cabinet of the labor premier, j. Ramsay Macdonald
His the only dscordant note His motion of opposition
did not even receive second
The British workers be depended on to take care
of this weak link in their united 'front.' There too many
such weak links make the Triple Alliance, in 1919,
These past experiences will help any breaches
in the Ouadupe Alliance before goes actively into battle
The workers have also been taught that they
depend the pariamentarsm of the Macdonald socialist
type only helped fasten the chains little tighter
abors limbs In fact 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 ex-
pIoters They know it is class that brings the social
revolution in its wake. The miners know they lost with
out 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. ftf
British Imperialism also knows the meaning of the
growing crisis The Baldwin ministry fully conscious of
what is about in trying to form Baltic bloc against the
Union of Soviet Republics. 1t is only front which
seeks to buWa its totterng rule Other weak spots
Egypt in India and especially in China British tory rule
also tremendously anxious bring Germany into the League
of Nations and CUT if 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 must
begin the fight that will halt a single of
American scab coal going Great Britain This 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 support
of the British unons of which face the battle with
depleted treasures.
Hands Across the Seal" should be the slogan of all
American labor in this fight.