The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-03
MACDONALD HAS
WAR PLAN READY
Follows Hoover Tactic
of Fake Naval Cut

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Macdonald yesterday limited strong
ly that he would accept coalition
cabinet.
81 am so much concerned for the
quiet development of industry, the
peaceful mind and confidence both
at home and abroad, that | will use
every ounce of influence 1 have to
prevent another election for the next
two years." Macdonald declared.
Hates to Resign.
1t is by no means certain that the
conservative party grip on the gov
eminent will drop away immediate
ly. Baldwin has a meeting today
of conservative chiefs at Chequers,
the premier's summer residence, to
decide what to do. The London
Daily Telegraph, speaking for
large section of the tory party,
states:
"The idea of resignation would be
intolerable either to himself BALD
win) or his party when no other
party is possessed of a clear major
ity.
"The correct constitutional course
is to meet the new House of Com
mons and leave it to others to put
him in a minority if and when they
choose"
Such a procedure by Baldwin
would permit Austen Chamberlain,
foreign secretary, to attend the
meeting of the Council of the
League of Nations, scheduled for
Madrid June 10, and Baldwin may
also be there, to arrange for the
harmonious transference of British
imperialist interests from the more
openly jingoistic tory plan to the
more effective, fake pacifism and
business-like war preparations of
the "laborites."
The Shipping War.
Even the election campaign docu-
ment of the labor party, entitled
Naturalization" has savage
shaft or two against American i'm
perialism. The aforementioned
Canadian shipping lines to the Brit
ish' West Indias are applauded as
weapons with which to drive U. S.
shipping out of the West Indian
trade.
In the event that Macdonald
forms a cabinet now, his list is sup
posed to be as follows:
Chancellor of the Exchequer-
Philip Snowden; Foreign Secretary
Ramsay Macdonald or J. H.
Thomas; Admiralty-Capt. Wedge
wood Benn; Secretary of War
Hugh Walton; Secretary of Air
Lord Thompson; Minister of Labor
Arthur Greenwood; Health-Mar-
garet Bondfield; Transportation
Shaw; Agriculture-Noel Buxton;
Board of William Graham;
Mines-Emanuel Shinwell; Educa-
tion-Sir c. P. Trevelyan; Domin-
ions-Lord Olivier; Postmaster Cen
eral-Vernon Hartshorn; Attorney
General-Sir Henry Slesser; Solici-
tor General. B. Melville.
Nobility Hold Orgies.
Meanwhile the nobility and big
business men of England show the
utmost confidence that Macdonald
will do nothing to interfere with
their exploitation OF the tenants and
workers. A gorgeous celebration of
the 500th anniversary of the city of
Edinburgh took place at the same
time as the elections, with hosts of
speakers lavishing praise upon
"Good King Robert who chartered
the city, and Good King George who
rules it now"
The Duke of Norfolk celebrated
his coming of age during the two
days following the election with an
ostentatious display. All the semi
royal nobility and many of the les
ser ones came to Arundel castle, the
seat of the dukes family, to take
part in the expensive festivities. The
duke owns all the land for so miles
around, and 90 per cent of the poor
farmers were bullied or coaxed into
contributing their pennies for a
birthday gift, gold cigarette box,
which the duke will add to 100000
worth of other gold articles kept in
the castle, and accumulated over a
long course of history. Yet it is said
the Duke of Norfolk is not very
rich, as dukes go, and of course does
not compare with some of the big
capitalists.