The daily worker., 1927-02-18
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are rich" This is nonsense. The
British labor party is led by eX-pro-
letarians like J. H. Thomas and
Philip Snowden, ]. r. Clynes and
James Macdonald. The peers in the
British labor party are few and haye
little influence in labor party coun-
ellis.
The labor party leaders mentioned
here are just as loyal to the imper-
ialist system as the peers. Indeed
more so. The peers have had their
fill Of flunkeyism. The debauched ex-
proletarians are just tasting the
sweets and they want more. However,
the important thing to consider in
connection with the British labor
party is not that there are few
peers scattered among it's member
ship or that Macdonald, Snowden and
Thomas are willing agents of capi-
talism, but that the British prole-'
t9riat has left behind it the time
when its leaders could be transported
to Van Diemens Land for daring to
beg the master class for an extra loaf
Of bread a day.
Colonel Mccormick no doubt
stopped at the Hotel Cecil or some
other high-class London hotel and did
not e behlGl the declassed or rene
gade peers Who decorate the higher
reaches Of the labor party. The Colo
uel says that the leadership of the
British labor party wants a revolu-
tion. 1t does not. 1t is quite con-
tented with the status quo. But the
revolutionary elements in the British
working class movement want revo-
mtion a''d they asc going TO have it,
since without it they cannot exist ex-
cepo in a condition of servltude.
THE Shoe was on the other foot
L when Pliny Fisk, banker, was
seized by a couple Of brawny thugs,
dragged into a darkened doorway,
threatened with dire consequences,
terrorised and then separated from
the sum Of S25 which he carried in
wallet on his hip pocket. This stall
wart citizen, during the course of his
predatory career separated many a
widow from her COW and many an
organ grinder from his hurdy gurdy.
A good short story could be written
about his mental travail during the
time he was at the mercy of the ille-
gitimate businessmen who courted his
cash.
A section of the British conserva-
"A tive party is actively preparing
for break with the Soviet Union,
the break to be followed by war. This
is the fascist section of the party.
Its leading members are Winston
Churchill, Lold Birkenhead and Will
liam Joynson Hicks. Moscow papers
show that conspiracy exists be-
tween some Czarist emigres and a
section of the British cabinet. Com
mander Locker-Lampson heads an or
ganization, the motto of which is:
"Out with the Reds" The post-mas-
ter general threatens to turn a firing
squad loose on British war-protest-
ants. The empire is going thru a
crisis, hence the nervousness.
TWO thousand white Russians in
4 Constantinople must either turn
red, become Turkish citizens or buy
one-way ticket, anywhere. This is
the ultimatum handed to the Czarists
BY the Turkish government. The
white guardists are no longer treated
like prodigal children by the imper-
ialists and their female parasites.
They are looked upon as hopeless
cases and left to their fate.
. lR Oliver Lodge and his group of
~ unframed freaks took part in a
radio telepathy test on the night of
February 16. The British Broad
casting Company gave Lodge free
reign. tho the same government
monopoly hesitates to allow such
harmless joker as George Bernard
Shaw to take the air. The New York
Times correspondent cables in part:
"Ihe most intense moment came at
l1:l5 when Sir Oliver, mildly enthusi-
astic, said over the microphone: the
first object is a playing card now
being shown by DR.. Wooley to his
companions. Which one is it?' -.
Lodge was talking to the thinkers
in. The correspondent continues:
"Dr. Wooley and companions will re-
main thruout the night in the padded
room for the sake of insuring secre-
cy." Padded cell would be more APP
propriate.
Democratic Politician