The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-20
Mcdonald May Come to
This Country to Spread
the Pacifism of Treason
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

- practically an oucast in his own Independent Labor
Party that lonzed him during the war, j. Ramsay Mac
Donald erstWhe labor premier of Great Britain has taken
to writing letters" for the liberal nation this side Of
the Atlantic. Evidently he has enree to its British
One of the surest signs that British politician is in the
discard in his appearance in the columns of American pub
down. spawned, shortwnded political horse Mac
Donald completes somewhat HISTORICALLY with David Lloyd
George the liberal party leader with dWnding following.
Macdonald devotes most his article in The Nation
April ~ to attack Great Brains tory government
with few sideswpes at the liberals One almost
clude from reading Ramsays mush-or baIderdash
British would say that Badwins crime that he less
reactionary that - r." himself. Thus Macdonald
plains:
he not mpede like the the scriptures would
find natural He would fighting
believer Of socialism than boarding the capitalists
torysm."
Evidently misery needs comfort. Macdonald has not
been successful in fighting the exoutionsts in the indie
Moscow the greater has been the growth of revou
tonary left wing Evidently this Rasays frantic call for
renorcements He betrays his complete bankruptcy by eg
ing toward the tory prime minister who lives quietly and
reads and quotes good literature That MacDonads
of 1.-THE Nation From the quiet retreat Of his own
library Macdonald acting dove of peace from capital
his view of the troubous coal situation by stating that AT
present there is a dominating desire for peace"
That best reveals Macdonald at his old game of seeking
to blind gag bind and shacke labor with his pacism while
the employing class busy planning its desperate
to force There nothing gained here by again rectng all
to recall that his colonial policy imperiaist
that Of the tories and his budget proclaimed 1.-THE best
ever offered under British capitalism"
One of the best characterexposng sections of this
article found where Macdonald seeks to take slap at
Baldwin for the so-caled ZinoVev letter incident during
parliamentary campaign that put Macdonald Bald
win in The depths of political sycophancy that only this
labor premier who groves at the feet of British royalty
could be capable of found in the that
Theywere than they they
cheated the country the Zincvev only affecting
the more serious people, deprecated their credit"
Yet it was j. Ramsay Macdonald, while still the tabor
PREMIER who did much any tory to impress
sion to the genuneness of the admittedly forged letter
from the president of the Communist International In fact
far as has to my attention, this is the first
that Macdonald has openly admitted that the letter was
cheat And Baldwin and his tories cheats, are
Macdonald and his antSovet supporters who still exc out
precarious existence in Iabor's ranks.
All this is merely cited to acquant Americas working
class little with j. Ramsay Macdonald. After writing
articles for American publications, the step will
make American tour. When he he will have many
oly NICE things to say about the Green regime in
American Federation of Labor. He will have inspiring
message for the American working class He will only
another Jean Longue Rafael Abramovch Fritz Tar
who headed the socaldemocratc delegation came
here from Germany last fall to- do the dirty of
American labor arstocracy To be forewarned of
able attacks is to be doub prepared meet and
them