The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-07

the campaign of Joynston-Hicks sup
ported by the legal-and illegal-state
apparatus with its courts, police and
political spies. The Communist Party
standing as the vanguard of the Brit
ish working class is, of course, expos
ed to bear the brunt of both these at
lacks.
Macdonald chose the Liverpool con-
ference of the labor party as the &C.
casion to launch his attack. Support
ed by the well-organized official ele-
ments of the right-wing he was able to
record a large measure Of success.
Resolutions were passed aimed at the
expulsion of the Communists from the
labor party as individual members and
at cripplng the activities of Commu-
nists who were delegates from the
trade unions.
This by itself would not be of very
great consequence had the conference
settled down to, real consideration of
the vital problems which were con-
fronting the working class movement.
But in his campaign against extreme
ism" Macdonald carried the fight a
definite stage further. He challenged
the whole working class policy of the
left wing. By careful manipulation of
the trade union delegations prior to
the conference and by expert manage
ment during the conference proceed
ings, a political program, which is
completely based upon the continuity
Of the capitalist system, was foisted
on the labor party.
Liverpool was claimed as a great
victory by the whole of the capitalist
press-even the Stock Exchange re-
ioiced Since Liverpool, the head Of
flee of the labor party, which is COM
pletely dominated by the right-wing,
has joined hands with the capitalist
press in directly melting not only to
the expulsion of Communists but of
whole local labor parties, trade union
branch and district committees which
refuse to endorse the Liverpool decis-
loans.
Joynson-Hicks Follows Macdonald.
T LIVERPOOL cleared the way for an
IL open attack on the Communist
Party. A few days after the labor
party conference, the conservative
party met at Brighton. They compli-
mented Macdonald for his fight
against the extremists at Liverpool
and called upon the government to
take further action.
The raid upon the offices Of the Com
munist Party, the National Minority
Movement and the National Unem-
ployed Workers Committee followed.
In addition to the arrest of twelve
comrades the police systematically set
to work to smash the central leading
organs of these three important work
ing class movements.
All books, pamphlets, documents
and files were confscated. The tech
nical stats were intimidated and
everything possible was done to pre-
vent a recovery to normal routine
work.
The positions held by the men ar
rested are also indication that choice
was made, not with reference to re-
sponsibility so far as the actual
charges were concerned, but because
of their holding key positions in the
advanced working class movement.
For instance, Comrade Pollitt was in.
cluded in the list, not because he had
written or spoken seditious words, but
because he is the leader of the frac-
ton of Communist elements at all ma.
tiOnal labor party and trade union
conferences and because he is the
acknowledged leader Of the rapidly.
growing Minority Movement. Com
rades Inkpin and Rust are chief of.
ficials of the party and Y c. L. re-
spectively. Comrade GALLAGHER, as
head Of the parliamentary department,
was arrested because he is responsible
for the contacts between the party and
the political working class movement
Facts could be produced to show sim
liar reasons for the arrests of all the
other comrades. The raid and arrests
were prompted by the sole desire to
put the Communist Party, the Ma.
tional Minority Movement and the I'm.
employed Workers Committee Move
ment into a weak or non-functioning
position during the troubled times i'm
mediately ahead. With these out OF
the way the government would have
been able to concentrate its repressive
force upon the left-winers of the in
dustrial and political labor movement.
The Trial of the Twelve.
THE attempts of the crown lawyers,
l. which included the attorney-gen-
eral, Hogg himself, to limit the trial to
purely legal one of conspiracy to
preach sedition and mutiny failed. The
three spokesman of the Communist
Party-Comrades Campbell, GALLAGHER
and Pollitt successfully prevented its
achievement In addition to q fine de.
tense of the principles Of the Commu-
mist International they, with the aid
Of telling facts and examples, proved
conclusively, that the attack upon the
Communist Party was part of the
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