The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-08
When "Gradualism" Reddens
BY JAY LoVEsToNE.

OdIiy MalI went on sulke Shortly
before midnight tonight following
the refusal Of the editors TO change
a strike editorial Intended to appear
In tomorrow's Mall. Publication Of
the paper was made impossible"
GREAT BRITAIN IS renowned for
~ its "gradualism." "MuddIing thru"
Is supposed to be an inherent charac-
teristic of the Anglo-Saxons, the
chosen people Of the imperialist stage
Of capitalism. The Anglo-Saxons are
supposed to be peaceful and resorting
only to the so-called orderly method.
This has been the illusion propagated
for decades by the British bourgeoisie
who have perpetrated the Armitsar
and Shanghai massacres.
JoIting the Democratic Illusions.
THE present general strike will jolt
4 still more the democratic illusions
80 diligently cultivated in the ranks
Of the workers by the capitalists Of
all stripes. The speed with which the
military forces, the fascist, and all
the numerous extra-constitituonal ag-
encies Of the bosses have been mobil-
lied against the workers, rips the
last shred of the veil of constitutional
ism of the ugly face of "The Mother
Of Parliaments." British capitalism.
This Daily Mail affair is by itself
only an incident in the gigantic his
torical struggle. But viewed from the
fundamental angle Of class relation
ships, the Daily Mail stoppage is a
symbol of all that is involved and pos
sible in the great country. This STOP
page is a symbol OF the new shade.
the new color, British gradualism is
taking on. Gradualism is reddening.
The undermining Of the position of
British commodities and capital in the
world market is reflected particularly
in this decision of the workers that
the press shall not be used against
the striking workingmen.
In their press, the British exploit
ing class has had a powerful weapon.
The newspapers of Great Britain have
increasingly served their Lombard and
Downing Streets masters. One would
not be exaggerating the case if he
stated that the press has played the
decisive role in many Of the class
conflicts in England.
A Good Example Set.
DUT while Thomas is crying, and
- Macdonald is threatening to lose
faith in democracy" in evolution, .
in British fair play" and in all the
other antiques of the British museum,
the English proletariat is fast losing
its Illusions. The workers from the
pits, the rails and the power houses
are not "muddling thru" but wading
thru. breaking thru British constitu-
tionalism fortified by such death
charged, barbed-wire entanglements as
the fascist supply corps, the navy
greyhounds, and the armed battalions
Surely, the English workers could
not have chosen a more effective and
fitting manner Of blowing up the bub
BILE of British gradualism than by
throwing a monkey-wrench into thai
Internally dangerous machine-the
capitalist press.
And our British brothers could moi
have chosen a better bourgeois news
paper to stop first than the London
Daily Mail. This is the biggest CAPT
talist daily in England. Its circula
ton is more than 100000. Besides
the Daily Mail is a bosses mass news
paper in every sense of the word. II
has specialized in ways and means o.
misinforming, misleading. and win
ming a hold on the minds of the
masses.
In The Press, pamphlet published
by the Labor Research Department
In England, we find the following il
Illuminating facts about the Daily
Mail.
"The Daily Mail was to become
the necessity Of the people at large;