The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-19


class against such fragrant tyranny
as the Trade Union Bill, unwilling to
defend the Soviet Union as the work
ers' fatherland against the British
ruling class, the oppressors of the
British masses and the leading plot
tiers against the workers and peas
ants government Of the Soviet Union.
THE whole upper crust of the British
labor movement has been whipped
into line by the British tories. 1t is
enlightening to note how refusal to
fight for the living standards and
political liberties of the workers Of
nation goes hand in hand with the
support of imperialist war upon the
Soviet Union.
IT can be said now that this is a
test for every labor leadership. If
it is hostile to the Soviet Union, if it
parrots the propagandists of the i'm
perialists, if it does not admit that
new imperialist war is in the air
and take steps to prepare the work.
ing class for resistance, if it de-
nonnces and wars upon the C0mmu-
nists and the left wing instead of con-
centrating all forces against the
capitalist offensive, it will be found
that this same leadership is prepared
to surrender gains the labor move
ment has fought for decades to obtain
in order to retain its standing with
the imperialists.
So it is in Great Britain, so it is
in France, so it is in Germany, so it
is in Italy and so it is in the United
States.
Ply their deeds we shall know them"
and by the recent action in
Edinburgh the leaders of the British
labor movement show that they are
treading the same path that the
leaders of the Second International
trod in 1914-support of their i'm
| perialist governments, emasculation
of the labor movement and betrayal
of the interests of the entire working
class.
The failure to rally the British
labor movement for struggle on all
fronts against the Trade Union Bill
was explained by these leaders as a
necessary tactic-they intended to
w a re a relentless parliamentary
struggle, they said.
PUT the severance of relations with
the Anglo-Russian Trade Union
Unity Committee, following upon the
| heels of the breaking of relations with
the Soviet Union by the Baldwin gov
eminent, shows that the British labor
leadership is following a conscious
political policy
The policy of the British imperialist
government.
THE British trade unions are being
put on war basis-that is, they
are being deprived of the will and
power to fight the war plans of the
ruling class.
This could not be done without the
cooperation and passivity of the
trade union and Labor Party leaders.
That it is being done is sufficient
proof Of the servile role of imperialist
agents played by these leaders.
Modern war cannot be waged with
out the mobilization of the workers
in industry. The last war proved this.
With the powerful labor movement of
Great Britain militantly opposed, war
is impossible.
THEREFORE, the suppression Of the
unions, tho enlistment Of the la
Dor leadership in the ranks Of the Inn
perialist forces putting the empire
before the Interests OF the masses, are
infailible signs Of mobilization for
waf-seeiai mobilization.
The action OF the Edinburgh Con-
gFess 10 worth more than q million
bayensts 10 tho impeFiaiist conspiracy
against the Soviet Union, II Is note
worthy thai tho French government,
given proof Of this hostile attitude Of