The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-24
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RESPITE the special efforts of sucn
- good standing socialists as Mac
Donald and Snowden, class collabora-
ton in England is having tough sled
ding. The Conference of Industrial
Cooperation, promoted by such vio-
lent anti-union British capitalists as
Sir Alfred Mond, is up against it.
Called to secure "peace in industry"
it could not face the problems press
ing upon the workers. The militant
miners leader, A. J. Cook, dealt it
solar plexus blow before it even got
started. Then the British Cotton En-
ployers' Association Immediately put
on the order of business for the
achievement of industrial peace, o
wage cut of 1914 Go and leng hening
of the working hours from 48 to 521a.
This is the reconstruction" plan of
British capital.
GLASS collaboration in England is
today facing a different test from
what it faced in the United States
when it was applied here, on a large
and systematic scale, for the first
time about five years ago. When
class collaboration was thus first ap-
piled in the United States as sys-
TEN of war against the workers,
American capitalism was heading to-
wards peak point in it's imperialist
development. Today Britain is apply
ing it when British capitalism is head
ing towards the trough of the curve
of its imperialist development.
The slightest industrial recession
in the United States is an occasion
for a weakening of class collabora-
ton. Glass collaboration essentially
takes root in upward trends of CAPT.
talism when it's easier for the en-
ployers to split the skilled workers
away from the unskilled by giving the
former certain petty concessions at
the expense of the latter. Such cor
ruption of the upper stratum of la
Dor cannot be successfully resorted to
by an imperialist country like Great
Britain going down head-long. The
contradictions of capitalism are the
realities of capitalism. 1t is on the
rocks of the contradictions of capital
ism that the very first efforts of the
British industrialists to copy the
American class collaboration system
will go to pieces.
THE Socialist Party National Com
mittee has just completed very
"eventful" session. 1t. adopted mo-
ton here; it passed a meaningless
resolution there; it promised else
where and did nothing everywhere.
This is what the New Leader, the
official mouthpiece of the decadent
socialist party, editorially calls $50
cialist Vitality" This sheet has brass,
if nothing else. 1t says:
'In the absence of labor party,
supported by the organized work.
ing class, the socialist party serves
as the only substitute. 1t is the la
Dor party of the United States. It
bears honorable scars for its long
service to the working class"
Such comment belongs in a funny
column.
Even the smallest insect can do in
calculable damage. The socialist party
is corpse. But precisely as a corpse
it is still source of deadly infection
in the labor movement. 1t works
overtime, fighting the organization of
labor party. It's leadership serves
as the most plant tools of the re-
dictionary trade union bureaucracy
which is in the pay and clutches of
the big capitalist interests.
WE must here also note some of the
resolutions adopted by the social
list party. The resolution on Mica
ragua is particularly enlightening. It
demands arbitration! Perhaps the So
cialist party would nominate the ar
bitrators between the United States
and Nicaragua. VIII they nominate
Chamberlain, Hillquit, Berger or Pill
sudski? These are all good comrades
in the cause against the Soviet Union,
Arbitrate between the imperialist
blunderers and robbed, oppressed,
colonial people! Arbitrate between
highwayman and his victim! This
is Socialism" in action.
The most tragic joke is to be found
in the resolution on the striking coal
miners. Every worker knows that
John L.. Lewis, the vilest Of labor
fakerdom that has infested the Amer
lean trade union movement, receives
the unquestioned and unquestionable
support of the socialist party. The
resolution doesn't say word about
Lewis. To the socialist party, Lewis
is no problem. He is their teacher
and leader.
What the socialists do complain
against is that the federal govern
ment is remaining inactive"
We wonder whether the socialists