The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-03
U. S. Imperialism and the British Elections.


It will doubtless starte many workers in this country
to behold the with which the imperiaist
at Washington and the capitalist press generally grac
ousy accepts the fact that the Observation-Disclosures
Thomas Labor Party has greatest number of
in the House of Commons although it has failed of
clear majority The New York Times organ of finance cap
ital declares:
His OlacDOnald's> official moderate and
hardly distinguished from that of the
1T infer that if he again becomes prime
minister he will attempt shake the pillars of society
England"
Only those workers will be startled at this applause from
the leading mpeaist press spokesman this country how
ever who have failed to acquant themselves with the actual
role bourgeois Labor Party of Great Btans three
capitalist parties This has been clearly pointed out by the
Daily Worker.
The election results raising the possibility of another
labor government makes it than necessary for
Americas workers to understand the sham fight Waged be-
tween the conservative liberal and labor parties the three
parliamentary harots of British Imperialism with similar
policies all important questions and the reflections of this
situation in the United States
Macdonald says he is going to do everything in his
power to keep the new government in for at least
two Such new government will inevitably be lib
eralabor coalition in spite of the excited declarations of
Macdonald and Lloyd George to the contrary
1t beraabor bloc that will best suit the interests
of British capitalism in the present period and provide the
best instrument for intensified preparations increasing
opposition the colonies and the developing suppression of
working class resistance at home The Tory
sent the Sinons Commission headed by the LIBERAL Sir
John Smons) to India against the protest of the Indians
but with the endorsement Of the Labor Party and containing
Labor Party members. It Sir Alfred Mond the liberal
who gave his to 'Mondsm, the program of 'class
peace supported by the treacheous British trade union
bureaucracy.
the beralabor bloc in 1910 that helped dupe the
masses and prepared the way British mperass entry
into the world 1914 the beraabor bloc that helped
carry on the war; so that in 1924 British imperialism was
adv floIO kpnt
nine months with liberal support.
1t is under cover of the beralabor bloc putting
down increasing barrage of pac pretensions that Brit
ish Imperialism will advance its preparations
The Hoover administration at Washington quick to
respond to this situation Even while the British voters
we're casting their ballots the president while calling for
increased speed in the armament nevertheless held out
the much attefed olive branch socaed peace and under
standing closer cooperation between the two great Eng
disappearing nations Behind the whole okescreen of
threadbar pacifist phraseoogy emanang from Washing
ton however, there the old AngloAmercan struggle
5000 and 10000on cruisers the battle for supremacy
the high that broke the last limitation
ference at Geneva the most recent and shapes of
skirmshes for world trade materials and the
struggle to maintain colonial countries huge slave pens
The frantic peace protestaons of both American and
British imperiasms reminder of the fact that it
the Russian who proposed the organization of the Hague
Peace Conference the very of the RussoJapanese
Wars outbreak
continue Loyalty than to carry out the policies of
British Imperialism. The HooverMacDonald pacifist pass
age-atams will is already development the world
stage of Ango-American rivalry.
The working class in both countries develops it's
class under the leadership of the British and American
Communist Parties that directs the struggle against both
imperasms the sections of the World Party, the Com
munist international.