The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-27
Soviet Rule" VS.. "The
Empire" Discussion Is
Rousing British Labor
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL

TODAY storm of controversy sweeps the British Labor
Party, bringing to the front, in clear perspective the
various tendencies within this very much bunted political
weapon of the British workers. -
j. Ramsay Macdonald, the late labor" premier, Of
the best premers that British capitalism has had
turns from his vacation trip the West Indies just in time
to help r. Thomas and other labor ackeys of British
the trip Prince Of Wales to South Africa Argentina
and other spots the globe where he expected repair
some of the broken down political fences of British imperial
ism.
David Kirkwood the Scotch labor member of parIia-
ment declares he picked by the executives Of the Paa-
mentay Labor Party to launch the attack the prince
Macdonald comes back with ITS ie And the fight is
The position of the MacDonaIds and the Thomases is
considerably undermined by the debate aroused
Forthcoming report Of the British Trade Union Delegation
that recently spent six weeks investigating conditions in
Soviet Russia Considerable has already been published
gadng the views of these delegates but the official report
has not yet been made expected to be finished very
and thus place the organized British labor movement
pretty much record in its sympathetic attitude towards
the First Workers Republic
The capitalist Sheet London Daily Telegraph claims
10 nave had peep at the preliminary drafts OF the report
and from its viewpoint charges it to be IAN amazing docu
ment"
While Macdonald and Thomas lean and more, if
this possible, toward their king and the empire the
Purces, Tetts and Bromeys who Soviet Russia,
ments of Soviet Rule startling the British capitalists espe-
cay when they declared they much impressed by the
of the Red Army, 1.-THE first disciplined, armed
and trained force created and utilized for the defense of
working class institutions"
There will be little comfort for the renegades who have
joined the ranks of counter-revoIuo weep the
socaed political prisoners" in the Workers Republic The
British delegation tells these renegade campfoowers e
tas antiSovet propaganda and Intervention that I'VE
can only the hope prisoners in country in
termed for similar oenses permitted to enjoy the
standard of comfort and treated with the kind of
humanity and have something like the opportunities"
Outside of few Abrarnovches Godmans and of course
the grand dukes and all their retnue Soviet Russia ecog
nzes that the few who still feel that the Workers Republic
isn't just what they will in time realize their mistake
In the meantime Soviet Rule must be protected against
them On this Russian policy the British trade unionists
place their 90 K" much to MacDonads chagrn the Mac
Donald who still has hopes of overthrowng workers rule
in Soviet Georgia. If not in Russia itself.
Abramovch, sitting in the office of the socialist" Nor
s Hiquit in New York City, gives the Times interview
reiteratng his attack the socaed terror" Russia To
this the British trade unonsts record their conviction that
this charge honestly be believed by any unpreudced
person travelling within the Union of Soviet Republics and
talking to its citizens.
All of which indicates that Macdonald and Thomas and
their kind going to have hard shedding In the Brit
sh Labor Party and in the British trade union movement
Red baers in the British trade unions will face difficult
gong echo of which, it is hoped, will be heard in the
American labor movement.
This present discussion in Great Britain within the
Labor Party accelerate the drift of working
Communism. The workers will ask "f Soviet Rule
good for the Russians why shouldn't be good for the
workers of Great Britain?"
To which American workers might add, "And how
about the United States?"