The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-14
By r. PAINE DUTT Oondon).

THE establishment of the new millionaire
DAILY Herald" should open the eyes of
every worker who has still lingering hope
in the Labor Party
What does it mean? Capitalism finds it to
its interest to run, and to pay for, an official
labor paper-in other words, to subsidize the
Labor Party to the tune of million pounds.
Why? Not for love of the workers. There
could be no clearer demonstration of the true
relationship of capitalism and the Labor Party.
Capitalism is running the DAILY Herald"
today for the same reason that it runs the
Daily Mail'-to corrupt and paralyse the
working class. The old methods no longer suf-
flee. The old Chauvnist Conservative and
Liberal popular" Press is no longer suffi-
cient; the workers begin to see through it.
Necessary to Capitalism.
Capitalism finds it necessary to run la
Dor" paper, just as it finds it necessary to
run Labor" Government for the final de-
ceit of the workers.
For tens of years, from every working class
platform, the capitalist press has been de-
nounced. Every Labor Minister who has
climbed to office has denounced the capitalist
press, has preached to the workers to despise
it and to fight it. Today new fact must be
part of the capitalist press, an organ of the
single capitalist trust octopus.
What Is Social Fascism?
The new move constitutes a direct and large
scale offensive of ocial-Fascsm in Britain.
What is Social-Fascism? The essential
character of Social Fascism is the direct
ganzation of an official Labor" or SOCIAL
Democratic" machine as an integral part of
the capitalist state machine against the work
ers. The old dual SYSTEM dating from the
period of capitalist stability of capitalist
governing machine on one side and loose
reformist Labor movement on the other side,
in nominal opposition, but under leadership
which Systematically betrayed the workers at
every critical point, now gives way, as the
whole class struggle grows more intense, to a
unitary system
Capitalism now takes directly in hand ia
Dor" organization as an essential part of its
organization, while all independent working
class organization and activity becomes stead
lily more and more illegal 1t becomes oil
legal" in relation to the official Labor move
ment which bans, eXpels and victimizes all
direct workers activity, and finally illegal
directly in relation to the police system al
ministered by the capitalist state machine in
union with the labor bureaucrats.
Mondsm.
Since the General Strike we have seen the
transformation of the trade unions into part
of the employers and state apparatus through
the policy of Mondism and the Transformation
of the Labor Party into systematic govern
ing party of capitalism, with Labor Govern
ment acting as the executive of capitalism.
The final absorption of the "Daily Herald"
into Greet capitalist ownership is the third
and eliminating phase Of thia process.
The terms of agreement between the CAPT
tast trust of Odhams, Limited, and the Trades
Union Congress lay down that the capitalist
trust is to own 81 per cent of the shares, and
the Trsles Union Congress 40 per cent. Here,
alike in this harmonious partnership and in
the proportion of the shares, is expressed with