The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-26
TOM Mann TELLS
OF COMMUNISTS
IN BRITISH JAIL
Class Justice Dealt Out
by Courts
BY TOM MANN.
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LONDON. Ian. Shy MaiD-We
are getting evidence enough that the
class struggle is a real fact in every
day life The Imprisonment Of fifty
nine trade unionists in Wales and the
twelve Communists in London for
doing not 1.-THE of that done by mem
bers of the boss class a short time
ago is a case in point. Nothing was
done in the way of punishment to
Lord Carson, or Lord Birkenhead, or
Joynson Hicks the present home sec
rotary when each Of them made what
were known to all as deliberately
seditious speeches-the Communists
get imprisonment and the plutocrats
get place and power.
Now we have a member of the sup
ePior class, who for years was the as
sistant commissioner of the metropol-
itan police, whose special duty was to
track down the reds on behalf of the
government, he is caught by police in
Hyde Park in an act violating public
decency and the treatment from the
jump is markedly different to that
meted out to any member of the work
ing class.
Capitalist Morality.
In letters larger than ever the re-
cords show in every part Of Britain,
that government, law, church and the
press are out to defend capitalist NOR
ality, the basis of which is-whatever
tends to uphold the present ruling
class as the ruling class in perpetuity,
that is good, is right and holy, what
ever and whoever does or says any
thing calculated to ieopardize the con-
tinued domination of the ruling class
is behaving wickedly, acting contrary
to the general interest and must be
put down by force.
Is it possible that any thing Of a
similar character obtains ia Amer
lea? Surely not, for was not that
great country peopled in part by the
very religious Of this country who re-
fused to bow the knee to the ruling
class of that day?
Lord Weir and his steel Houses.
Lord Weir connected with a con-
siderable engineering works in Scot
land, is again in the limelight in his
desire to supply steel houses for work
ers unable to obtain brick or stone
houses, providing he gets the full
price.
It will surprise most folk to know
that in appearance, in convenience
and in durability, steel houses Of the
Weir type are very inferior to the
ordinary brick house and very little
cheaper, but they can or rather could
under a system of mass production be
built in less time. 1t must not be sup
posed that during the past few years
there has been shortage of men in
the building trades. On the contrary,
many thousands have left the country
because of the impossibility of get
ting work whilst this interminable dis
cussion has been going on. Thousands
Of these men are in the United States.
Artificial Trade Maneuver.
To understand the position one
must realize that slackness in the
engineering trades caused some of
the bosses in these trades to resolve
TO try and get high prices for turning
out material for steel houses and in
vested considerable sums Of money.
Finding the workers had very little
appreciation of such houses the boss
es kow tow to members Of the gov
eminent and succeed in getting the
government to promise a subsidy on
such houses, and preparations to pro-
duce on large scale are made.
But those with inside knowledge
do not believe there is any room for
such houses as, although there GER
tainly is a great house-hunger, the
drawbacks to such houses are of so
serious character that as soon as
Lord Weir's firm can recover outlay
and a bit to the good we shall prob
ably hear no more about them.
Communist Study In jail.
l visited Comrade Harry Pollitt a
few days ago, one of the twelve Com
munists and secretary of the Nation
al Minority Movement, but now in
Wandsworth jail. I'm able to report
that Pollitt and his comrades are all
well in health, and are all working in
accord with prison regulations, and
continuing to study diligently such
subjects, including languages, as are
calculated to quality them for In
creasing service TO the labor cause.
Demonstrations are being held all
over the country protesting against
their Imprisonment, and demanding
their release.
Greetings from British left wingers
to all lefts in the United States.
AS soldiers in the army OF the or.
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