The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-17
Soviet Recognition by Great Britain


kissing the hand the king Lloyd George knowing the dec
ton in which the wind among the British in
trying gain popularity be prepared for the Labor
Party crash already raised the question of Soviet recognition
before the has made any statement
the question.
Lloyd George says he assumes the government Qabor)
will Immediately repair the stupid bunder of the ARGOS raid
and resume diplomatic relations with Russia.
With the liberals thus approving, Macdonald muster
an Immediate majority the House of Commons for Soviet
Recognition.
MacDonads attitude the Soviet Union has been
Enthusiastically imperias attitude. He allowed the Con-
servative Party 1924 the fake Znovev Letter
means of developing Ant-U. S. S. R. Drive Macdonald
did not attack this etter for the fraud that it since
thoroughly proved but rather accepted bona de thus
aiding the Anti-Soviet drive of the Baldwin clique
This attitude Macdonald again brought into the
limeght in the Spring of 1921 when the Baldwin Tory
government openly sought provoke against the Soviet
Government Macdonald leader of the Labor Party in the
House of Commons made effective protest against the
outrageous attack May r. 1927 against ARGOS Ltd, the
Soviet trade delegation in London when hundreds of police
under the personal direction of the infamous Sir JOHNSON
Hicks x the safes in real burglar fashion and carried
off all the papers documents they could get their hands
on. The raids followed by the breaking off OF
diplomatic trade relations There followed shortly the
assassination of Voo the Soviet ambassador to Poland IN
the railroad station at Warsaw clearly provocative act
against Soviet Union in which British Imperialism shared
During the weeks there whole series of crimes
committed in the Soviet Union by inspired counterrevoOn
aries such explosion of bomb Leningrad workers
club during meeting resulting in many being injured the
blowing up railroad bridge MnSk and the killing OF
the local head the G. P IT, ncendiary fires in various fac
tories similar outrages Everywhere the cunning hand
of the British foreign office could be at work. of
the taken prisoners openly confesng
to support received from British sources.
international labor of the Macdonald
nen in again opening diplomatic relations with the Soviet
Union should condemn the Znovev forgery and that the
counter-revoutionary plots encouraged by British i'm
perasm during the Baldwin regime be exposed detail and
condemned Macdonald is already exposing his imperast
character by failing publish the facts concerning British
AntiSovet intrigue which facts lie in the British Foreign
Office These include the Afghan and China Ant-Sovet
maneuvers the plots Matched by British agents in the Bal
kans and in the North, Finland, Latvia, ETC.
The Macdonald clique like the socia-democrats of
Germany France and other countries including the United
States have love for the triumphant Proearian Dictator
ship the Soviet Union They its worst enemies be-
they conceal their hostility under mask of fraudu
lent friendship and seek to advance their AntSoviet de-
signs under barrage of pacst phrases To msnepret the
meaning the British renewal of diplomatic relations under
the Macdonald government is to underestimate the
danger the threat of the world war for which the i'm
perast nations especially the United States and Great
Britain, are fevershly preparing.
Any favorable attitude of the Macdonald government
toward the Soviet Union directly out of the
brought against its regime by the wide
British working class This pressure will be strengthened
and sharper class character the Macdonald
gime reveals clearly before the its inherent
bourgeois character.
The Macdonald outfit joins with the Wall Street imper-
asm in the bogus peace and understanding" between the
Engishspeakng peoples of the world clearly another i'm
peras the part of both capitalist countries
for places vantage Under these circumstances American
labor must it's ties closer than ever with the British
labor against the MacDonalds and Hllquits, the Lloyd
Georges and Brookharts the Badwns and Hoovers the
Thomases and Greens in both countries
This is the real meaning of the struggle for nerna
tona Red Day AnWar Day. August First for which the
toiing masses of the whole world prepare.
j. COOK secretary of the British Miners Federation,
y his back left wing labor in Great Britain
joins the Independent Labor Party and stands hat in hand