The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-01
The Elections in Great Britain.

Indications at this writing far figures 60 that
Thursdays poll for the election of members to the British
House of Commons will be somewhat similar to the election
results of ushered first Labor Government
The Labor Party of Macdonald Henderson and Thomas
having greatly increased its strength nevertheless again
falls short of clear majority the Baldwin conservative
and the Lloyd George liberal parties.
If Macdonald accepts the invitation of the king form
another labor government he doubtless WILL then he will
have to beg from the liberals in 1928 in order
remain Sin office If he fails of liberal support
pected, then a election will inevitably result.
The election figures reveal an overwhelming drift away
from the conservative party that had majority 1924
This the conservative party with the aid of the abores
and liberals that had smashed the general strike of British
labor in May 1926 that broke the miners strike and put
through the infamous Trades Union Act intended to make
any future general strike of labor impossible Industrial
sagnaon especially in the mining and textile industries
with wide unemployment and intense suffering among the
workers. featured conservative rule This same conservative
broke off diplomatic relations with the Union of
Soviet Republics launched its of intervention in China,
and developed its oppression against the revolutionary
workers and peasants of India.
Conservative strength now slips back to the Labor Party
which becomes the strongest bourgeois party 1t is evident
that the voting had decided to give the Labor Party
another chance This poison permeated the British
Communist Party for time There in the British
Communist Party leadership who argued that British Com
munss must deliberately assist another Labor Govern
ment to power declaring that it would then dscred itself
before the of the workers. forgetting that the Com
munist Party would be blasted in the process This
wrong attitude sharply corrected by the Communist
ternaona with the result that the British Party has waged
an independent Communist campaign for the first time in it's
history putting up its candidates and its platform
carrying aggressive and open attack against the
treachey of the Labor Party This of course resulted in
the most bitter retaliation by the bureaucracy especially
the trade unions against the Communists In such
pagn the defeat of the only Communist in the House
mons, Shapur Saavaa the Indian revoutonist elected
London district is accounted for by the the
pro-mperialist Labor Party this year candidate and
waged bitter campaign against him. 1t will be remembered
entering this country 1925 to attend the Inter parliament
tary Union Conference at Washington because Secretary of
State Kellogg and President Coolidge held him to be rev
dictionary"
In this campaign, the British Communist Party has been
steeed in Boshevk tactics fighting the bourgeois parties
of Baldwin Lloyd George and Macdonald and every step
the abortes in the and House of Commons
paraeng the acves.of the sociademocrats against the
working class in Germany in the May Day massacres will
before the workers the clear fact that the Communist
Party the leader in the struggle of Cass Against Glass;
the standard bearer of the workers only possible drive for
emancipation through the overthrow of capitalism and all its
ackeys
The Acknowledgements outfit will doubt
raise their old that they only Sin office not Sin
power The whole apology of the first labor government
for its betrayal of labor that did not have power
it minority in the government and could therefore do
nothing Without clear majority in the government
the traitors will doubtless raise the cry that they
responsible for what the government
the basis for the demand for the second labor govern
ment and will also be for the third the platform for new
berayal Although the election figures for 1929 may be
somewhat similar to those of 1928 the political and
situation is entirely different.
Macdonald already in his campaign speeches confessed
to his reaconary intentions if elected to office power
by declaring that impossible within year. to do
anything to meet the unemployed question, that he would
the power to crush any uprsng wherever
they might occur, at home in the colonies.
The usual effort will be made by the capitalist and
Labor Party press to minimize the Communist VOTE They
will ignore the fact, for instance, that Usmani candidate
against Sir Simon head of the Infamous Simon Commission
in progress. Oppressive invoked against
Communists in many districts
The British working class however, has made progress
this election through the fact that the Communist
Party able to enter the elections for the first an
independent class force This in itself indicates leftward
swing of the This has resulted for the first
the clear capitalization of opposition the Party
in the ranks of the British working class.
British labor in the parliamentary struggle as well as
in its economic battles will continue to make progress under
the leadership of the Communist Party that the stand
ards in Great Britain of the Communist International
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