The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-16
The Hague Conference on the Young Plan
By Fred Ellis

His insistent demand for an adj
ditional $10,000,000 annually as the
British share of the one-third that
is left over after paying the United
States, was not merely for the
amount of money involved, but was
a deliberate attempt to scrap the
whole Young Plan. By remaining
adamant in face of the most furious
attacks from the American, French
and German press, Snowden forced
the suspension of the open sessions
of the Hague conference. Sub-com-
mittees are working behind closed
doors in an effort to patch up some
sort of secret agreements that will
temporarily overcome the difficulties
and save the Plan that the imperial
lists and their social democratic fun
keys outside of England hailed as
the final achievement of mankind
on the road toward world peace.
AZ the first critical m m n t
"A Thomas W. Lamont, of the House
of Morgan, held conference with
j. Ramsay Macdonald, but the Ga
Dor" premier Immediately thereafter
announced that the government
stood solidly back of Snowden. Then
Lamont got in direct communication
with the Hague, there to guide the
maneuvers, while Morgan, himself
kept in close touch with the situa-
ton from Scotland where he is al
legged to be resting from his ardu-
Gus toll.
The personal intervention of La.
mont at the Hague resulted thus
far in one of the most adroit tricks
ever perpetrated. France and Italy
at the behest of Lamont, made g
proposal to Snowden that Britain
receive the additional $10,000,000 de.
manded, provided it could be taker
off the amount that was designated
to go to some of the smaller powers
This is nothing more than an at.
tempt to align the small powers af.
fected in the bloc against Britain
At the same time Lamont will un.
questionably grant still further con.
cessions to both Germany anC
France in order to bring them to,
gether in support of Yankee i'm.
perialism and to deepen the chasn
between them and Britain.
1T is quite clear that Britain, al
the Hague, finds itself in diff.
cult position as a result of the
Vaccinations of the American i'm.
perialists and the fact that Ameri.
can imperialism has the economic
power to back up it's maneuvers.
In this conflict t. c specific role Of
the British labor government is very
instructive for the working class Of
the world. Macdonald and company
are acting as unifying force fol-
the entire capitalist class of Britain
The first prerequisite for success
full conflict, either automatically OF
from a military point of view
against a rival power, is consolida
ton of the ruling class at the toI
and disorganization and disarminl
of the subject class. Already thu
ruling class has been consolidated
in opposition to the Young Plan a!
is proved by the utterances of Lloyt
George for the liberals and Winston
Churchill and Baldwin for the con
servatives. The upper strata of tn,
working class is being aligned be
hind British imperialist policy OF
the issue of survival of British in
dustry. This strata of the working
class feels itself a part of the EN-
pire and was the original base fol-
social reformism in England.
Events at the Hague prove thai
only the labor party can function
effectively in the interests of i'm
perialism at the present historical
moment.
THUS we have the inglorious spec
u tacle Of the very leaders of the