The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-15
By Fred Ellis

itself intended to, because 1t is con-
fident Of its ability to deceive the
workers. The well known pro-
gramme of the Labor Party entitled
Labor and the Nation" the Turner
Melchett Report, and the report OF
the Balfour Committee (set up by
the Labor Government in 1924 all
contain definite worked out concrete
proposals for the naturalization of
British industry, involving not only
state aid and reorganization of in
dustry, but also an increase in I'M
employment, lower wages, longer
hours, and a speed-up in the fac
tories, mines, and mills. The Labor
Party is pledged to reconstruction
of capitalism. It will mobilize the
machinery of the trade unions and
the Labor Party behind it in carry
ing through the inevitable attacks
on the working class, which must be
made in order to carry through
naturalization in Great Britain.
The policy of the Labor Govern
ment will lead to the intensification
Of the internal contradictions of
British capitalism, and to the
sharpening of the international
struggle for markets.
The Labor Government will ruth
lessly suppress the revolutionary
masses in India by the most murder
Gus means. The Empire policy of
the first Labor Government promises
what is in store. 1t can consolidate
the Empire in no other way. 1t will
prepare for the war against Ameri-
ca, because the naturalization of
British industry will throw Britain
into sharper conflict with America
on the international market. 1t will
prepare the war against the U. S.
S. R. because it's existence is a
tremendous barrier against h e
overcoming of the contradictions of
British capitalism, and .ccause the
U. S. S. r. stands as beacon light
and example to the suppressed
masses in the Empire and the ex-
plotted masses of Britain. The labor
government will, when faced with
the mass struggles and the re-
sistance of the workers in Englanc
against naturalization be compelled
to resort to open suppression which
will expose it before these masses.
A Labor Governmc- : in Great
Britain increases the danger of war.
1t would be a terrible mistake to
in any way encourage the illusion
that pressure on the Labor Govern
ment can compel them to fight for
the demands of the working class.
That this illusion will arise even
amongst the revolutionary workers
can easily be foreseen. AS the Labor
Government embarks upon it's path
of openly carrying out of the capt.
talist policy there will be a revival
of sham left opposition in it's ranks
on the part of the Independent La
Dor Party and such people as Max
ton, Cook, Wheatley, and Co. Their
role will be to canalize the working
class revolt into safe channels, to
deliver the workers back into Mac
Donald's hands, just as they did in
1924 and also in 1928.
Mighty mass struggles are loom
ing ahead in Great Britain. The
working class are swinging to the
left. The treacherous policy of the
Labor Government will disillusion
them, but it will not be an easy
and rapid establishment. The
reformists are too cunning ana
clever to completely expose them
selves without making the pretence
of representing the working class
needs, and still continuing to- use
working class phrases.
The Communist Party will win the
masses away from the Labor Party
and for revolutionary struggle I'M
der Communist leadership only by
daily bitter obstinate struggle for
the everyday interests of the work.
ers. This struggle must be linked
up with and made part Of the strug-
gle for the Revolutionary Workers
Government. WILLIAM RUST.