The daily worker., 1925-01-03


for power; on the one side the bour-
geoisies on the other the labor re-
formists; the third is only appear
ing on the horizon. It is the Commun-
ist Party, which will doubtless event
ually unite the best elements of the
British labor movement. (Applause).
We were told that the Macdonald
experiment would lead to a soften
ing of the class struggle. The reverse
was the case. 1t led to a sharpening
of the class struggle in England. They
wanted to go thru one door, but
strayed into another (applause).
Therein lies their misfortune. They
wanted to show the world how they
put an end to the class struggle, how
almost painlessly the bourgeois corn
can be cut, so that the bourgeoisie
would not feel it. But the result was
class struggle intensified to an un-
usual degree. OF course, a differentia-
tion in the British labor movement is
now inevitable and unavoidable, and
Macdonald and his friends will not
be able to escape this. Do they think
that this show with the notorious
Zinoviev letter will pass without any
injury to them? daughter, applause).
Comrades, personally we have no rea-
sons to resent this incident (laugh-
teri. Just the contrary, we have
grounds to be well satisfied with this
incident, because Macdonald and Co.
gave quite an unusual advertisement
to the Communist International.
Many thousands Of workers in Eng
land do not know the meaning of a
nucleus in the army, navy or even in
the factory. Our press there is
weak. Now thanks to this letter.
even tho it is forged, they all learned
the meaning of a nucleus daughter,
applause). So that, comrades, we
are not moved by any resentment
against their forgery. We have be-
cone perfectly used to forgeries, but
what rag Macdonald has made of
himself in all this affair. Wherein lay
the crux of this matter? Macdonald
tried to sit on both sides of the
fence. He knew that thousands Of
workers in England were sympathiz-
ing with the Soviet Union, and he
therefore, conducted his election cam
paign in favor of a union with US: but
then after all. he is a menshevik,
and leader of the Second Interna-
tional. He knew that it is inconveni-
ent to sit on one chair, and he must
sit between two chairs Qaughter). He
therefore. decided to secure the SYM
pathies also of those who were
against the Soviet Union; this way
it would be safer QaLghter). He
therefore, made use Of the forged let
ter. You know what pitiful blabbing
he used to justify himself. He him
self admitted that he knew about this
letter ever since October 10th. His
game fell thru entirely. heard from
a number Of comrades well acquaint-
ed with life In England and with.
MacDonald's moods that this incident
of the alleged letter cost the labor
party perhaps a million votes. II we
were to take this million from the
conservatives and add it to the labor
party, we would have a oIuerence of
two millions, that might have decid-
ed the election. That Is what the
typical pitiful shameful policy of
Macdonald has led to, and hope that
it cannot fail to arouse the protest of
the masses of British trade unionists.
They could not even end this affair
with digniied front. Macdonald ap-
pointed a commission. The commits
sion said that 1t had no time to finish.
Macdonald then resigned without
waiting for the commission to COM
plete its work and so they all finished
by stating that no one saw the orr
ginal Of the letter but that they saw
only a copy composed by some un-
known person. One of the papers, I
think 1t was "The Times" was sharp
witted enough to subsequently write:
ut makes no difference whether the
letter is forgery or not, it is no Sc
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