The producers news., 1929-10-18
IT'S ALL OVER NOW

Ramsay Macdonald has returned to London to
report to His Majesty's Government the
failure of his negotiations with President
Hoover relative parity and other issues liable
to bring the two empires into war
Catering to popular fear of the great news
agencies of this country competed in unloading the
greatest cargo of holum ever concocted on the
American people. Special writer's, editorial hacks,
and cartoonists We'd with each other in equipping
Hoover and Macdonald with wings and painting
the passing of in graphic phrase and optimist-
&c color. But this is not novel misleading the
masses and imposing on their credulity is the busi
ness of the capitalist press and of their owners.
One would expect something different, however,
from the labor and liberal press.
With the exception of The Producers News and
The Daily Worker of New York, all the so-called
labor and liberal organs, to our knowledge, hailed
MacDonalds mission with great glee and offered
The blah hurled into the atmosphere by Hoover and
Macdonald evidence that the cause of world
peace was travelling on three-league boots. If the
masses swallowed this bunk they will pay dearly
for their credulity.
Millions of people are led to believe that Mac
Donald is a pacifist simply because he is milk
and-water socialist that he had conscientious OBJ
lection against the World War and excluded
from golf club because of his position in those
hysterical days. That Macdonald was against
in 1914 is undoubtedly true But he was not pre-
mier of Great Britain and Ireland in 1914. He
was of the leaders of His Majesty's opposition
Today he is in different position. His job is to
the British Empire for the benefit of those
who own and control the Empire-the British rul-
ing classes.
How does Macdonald really stand on the ques
ton of war? Never mind his words They are
cheap. Look at his actions.
During MacDonald's previous term in Downing
Street, the keels of five cruisers were laid Brit
| ;sh batteships were dispatched to Hong Kong to
quell a rebellion of Chinese coolies. British air
planes used to drop bombs on Indian villages
and Britain ruled as hitherto with gun and bayo-
net-cant and hypocrisy.
At this moment British bayonets, bombs and poi
son gas are used to crush the Arab revolt against
British rule in Palestine, because England needs
another route TO India to supplement the Suez
Canal and Britain wants the oil that was discov-
cred in Palestine while the great war was in pro-
gress.
Under the present Labor party regime the rep
resentative of Amanulah, former progressive rul
er OF Afghanistan was bundled out of his embass,
In London while Scotland Yard confiscated severa
trunkfulls of documents belonging to him. Thi
was done because England could not purchase Am
anaullah who is friendly to Russia. England doe
not want Afghanistan to be governed by an ad
ministration friendly to the Soviet Union, there
fore she organized the recent reactionary revolt i
that country which sent Amanullah into exile
Now, it is reported that Saako the Water Boy
England's puppet king, is all wet and that Aman
ulah is staging comeback. So Macdonald, tn
so-called pacifist premier kicks the Afghanista
envoy out of London, just as Baldwin or church,
would do.
AS we have repeatedly stated, Ramsay MacDor
aid is In practice much of an imperiast a
Stanley Baldwin. He would not be left in offic
one day if the British ruling classes did not tru,
him. The socialists and liberals are either bein
fooled or they are deliberately fooling the masse
when they hail Macdonald as friend of peac
That the British Empire does not want war wit
the United States NOW goes without savin,
Neither does the United States want war wit
England NOW. But that war between the two
as inevitable as the war between GERMANY ar
England In 1914 is clear to every student of hi
tory and particularly of England's traditional fo
eign policy. When England loses domination
the seas she is lost. And she is not going to SD
render it without struggle