The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-08
BRITISH Cabinet
ALREADY Chosen
Legal Machinery to the
Non-Laborites
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Lord Parmoor; air minister, Lore
Thomson; agriculture, Noel Buxton
president of the board of education,
Sir c. P. Trevelyan; secretary OF
state for Scotland, w. Adamson;
first commissioner of works, George
Lansbury.
The new members named to the
government were:
Labor, Miss Margaret Bondfield;
first lord of the admiralty, A. V.
Alexander; lord chancellor, Lord
Sankey; secretary of state for In
dia, Wedgwood Benn; health minis
ter, Arthur Greenwood; president of
the board Of trade, w. Graham.
Other ministers appointed, but
not actually in the cabinet, include:
chancellor of the Duchy of Lancas-
ter, Sir Oswald Mosley; attorney
general, w. A. Jowitt; solicitor gen.
eral, J. B. Melville; minister of pen
sions, F. o. Roberts; minister OF
transport, Herbert Morrison; par
limentary under-secretary for Scot
land, 7. Johnston; postmaster gen.
eral, Prof. H. B. Lees Smith; pay
master general, Lord Arnold.
Despite the fanfare of the pre-
election period about choosing a
cabinet of the working class, it is
now obvious that, with the excep-
ton of a few who come from the
skilled labor bureaucracy, there are
no members in the cabinet who can
boast of a working class origin.
There are three peers. Macdonald
and Margaret Bondfield, the only
woman member, are college profess
sors. Thomas, Henderson, Clynes
and Shaw have been for several
decades part of the corrupt Trades
Council. They originally came from
the ranks of highly skilled workers
and technicians, Thomas being an
engineer, Henderson a highly skilled
foundry worker, etc. Webbs, it is
said, will now become a member of
the peerage.
Royalists Appointed.
Two of the members are not even
laborites. These fill two of the
most important legal positions in the
cabinet, their Jobs being that of en-
forcing capitalist law and justice
against the workers. Lord Jowitt,
one of the two, is to be attorney gen
eral, post corresponding to that
of head of the department of justice
in the United States. The Ameri-
can workers who have experienced
the Red Raids and strikebreaking
activities of these capitalist agen-
cies will well understand the signifi-
canoe of appointing members of the
royalty to these posts. The second
Lord Sankey, was the kings chair
man of commissioners to rationalize
the coal industry which has contrib
uted the present misery. Sankey
was appointed judge by the king
and will now be lord chancellor.
Snowden was a member of the
commission of inquiry on Russia and
submitted vicious report attacking
the first Workers Republic. He is
q member of the Royal Institute Of
International Affairs. A. V. Alex
ander is an army captain and q
Baptist preacher.
There is, tremendous newspaper
talk about reduction of unemploy-
ment as the first task of the new
government. Thomas has announced
that as first measure to reduce
unemployment he will undertake the
naturalization of the railroads. This
clearly means that unemployment
will be increased. This is but one
example of how these takers have
been feeding phrases to the masses
while giving aid to the imperialists
in whose service they are.