The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
TO OUT-TORY
T0RIES-TKAT'S
HLAB0R'S" AIM
Foreign Policy Is One
of Imperialism


respect to its policy and actions
at home since assuming office.
This showed labor" as reaction
airy as the Tories. ''Labor's"
record with respect to foreign
policy shows it even more re-
dictionary than Baldwin, if pos
sib!e.
The Labor Party are pledged to
restore diplomatic relations with
Soviet Russia. These relations were
broke in 1927 after Jix had raided
the offices of ARGOS. The British
government, therefore, responsible
for the rupture, not the Soviet.
Macdonald now refuses to re-
sumo relations with Soviet Russia
unless she agrees to- conditions re-
garding propaganda. If Macdonald
is justified in not restoring relations
because of propaganda, the Baldwin
government, by the same token, were
justified in breaking off relations!
In such a way Macdonald white
washes Jix and Baldwin.
What are the Conditions ?" Ac-
cording to Macdonald lin answer to
a question of Austen Chamberlain's
they are the very conditions laid
down in the note to the Soviet
government in 1924 on the Zinoviev
Red letter.
This note was drafted by Gregory,
now dismissed from the Foreign Of
flee on account of certain "weak-
nesses" in his character in money
matters. Moreover Macdonald has
since said the Zinoviev letter was a
forgery! But Macdonald still stands
1 by that note!
Two weeks after taking office the
Labor government signed an agree
ment with the Chinese militarists
providing for the training of Chi
nese naval cadets in the British
Navy and the despatch of a British
Naval mission to assist in the de-
velopment of the Chinese Navy"
Encouraged by this, and by the
continuity of MacDonald's policy
with Baldwin's on the question of
Russian propaganda" the Chinese
militarists seized the Chimes
Eastern Railway (owned partly by
the Soviet Government) and expelled
the Russian employees of the rail
way on the grounds of "propa-
! ganda."
The Labor Party pledged itself to
remove British troops from the
Rhineland.
The troops are still there; and
they will continue to be there until
France also agrees to withdrawal.
Last March the Baldwin govern
ment ordered the arrest of 81 Indian
trade union leaders, some of them
Communists, some of them not. The
charge was conspiracy against the
King Emperor. Actually, they
were arrested for leading the Indian
mill strikes. They were conveyed
thousands of miles to Meerut, a
place where no jury trial was pos
sible, where facilities for witnesses
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out of danger of any demonstrations
by the workers.
In the first fortnight of the Labor
government another Indian trade
unionist was arrested, Lester Hutch
inson, late of Manchester.
In written statement to J. Max
ton, M. P, in the House of Com
mons, on July 9, Captain Wedg-
wood Benn, Labor Secretary of
State for India admitted that the
transport to Meerut was approved
by the British government.
When Capt. Benn was asked by
delegation of the Meerut Defence
Committee if he would transfer the
trial to a place where a jury trial
was possible, he insolently refused,
stating it was decision of the court
and one in which he would not inter-
fere.
He has absolutely refused to en-
! terrain the idea of releasing these
trade unionist political prisoners. In
other words, the government ap-
proves of and continues the repres-
sion of Baldwin against trades
unionism in India.
AS part Of his employment scheme
j. H. Thomas proposes to make a
grant of money to undertakings in
the colonies. On July ~ he adj
mitted to W. j. Brown, M. P, that
such public monies would be given
to private capitalists.
Immediately, Mr.. Ormsby- Gore
Conservative according to the
the proposals wholeheartedly and
said Conservatives members weren't
in the least interested as to whether
socialism was or was not in the
picture"
And Lord Stanley CONSERVATIVE
stood up in the House to speak of
the services of Mr.. Thomas to the
Empire on previous occasions. Sir
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