The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-21

THE leader of his majestys opposition and erst-
while leader of the Independent Labor Party in
Britain is grazing America with his austere pres
ence Ramsay Mac" as he was lovingly called,
has had most adventurous career during which
the traditional diplomacy, for which he is notori-
GUS enabled him to bluff the rank and file Of the
]. L. P.
In the years preceding the formation of the
Communist Party of Great Britain, many present
members of that Party members of the l. L. P.
They constituted Left Wing that bitterly fought
the opportunism of Macdonald, Snowden and many
others of that ilk.
The big fight at !. L. p conferences after the
Russian Revolution, on the question of the
Second or Third International. A Scottish Confer
held in Paisley, adopted practically unani-
mousy the following resolution:
ITO disaffiliate with the Second international
and affiliate with the Third International" This
resolution automatically went the agenda of the
National Conference representing the British Isles)
as the opinion of Scotland
Ramsay Mac" and his colleagues knew the over
whelming feeling in the l. l.. P. was against the
Second international and that the resolution
as it stood, would be adopted. Accordingly, they
put their thinking caps in order to devise some
scheme for surmounting the difficulty.
The National Conference the results Of this
thinking. When the Standing Orders Committee
reported the resolution they stated it
double barrelled dealing with two dis
tincty different questions They therefore recon-
mended that two resolutions be made of it, namely:
l. "To disaffiliate with the Second International"
2. "To affiliate with the Third International" The
first resolution unanimously adopted. It Is a
matter of fact however, that for years after that
decision, Ramsay still remained official of the
Second international. Treachery and double deal
ing have always been his stock in trade.
On the Second resolution, the historic -21
points evolved. After much wranglng and misin-
formation, the l. l.. p decided (some time after)
to give allegiance to the 2ls Vienna Inter
national.
The Left Wing left the Independent Labor Party
at the Southampton Conference, and became part
of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
The evil genius of all the right wing fights was
the SANITY" Ramsay, who stopped his bitter
attack the progressive elements inside and out
side of his party.
Opposition to his policy was being built up by
the Left Wing inside the l. L. p. more. The
Wheateys, Maxtons, Buchanons, Lansburys, ETC.,
ETC., began to definitely oppose his blatant oppor-
tunism.
With the great influx of voters to the British
Labor Party, Ramsays prestige as National figure
increased. The extreme tendencies of his followers
became a nuisance. How could he prove to the
capitalists that he could capitalism better thar
they, if his army of back benchers inside Parlia
ment were so bitterly class in their attitude
At last he found remedy With the coopera
ton of Henderson, (the labor member of the CAPT
talist cabnet), Thomas (the treacherous leader
of the Railwaymen) and Snowden, (the Liberia
statesman who always fought militant working
class action), he devised the scheme of expellni
Communists from the Labor Party. This wa
carried by the inner leadership Of the Labor Party
and an attempt was made TO have it enforced in tn
local labor parties.
Resolutions are easily passed but not easil
put into practice. The majority of the Labor Part