The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
By l. AMTER.
written in Jsil)

THE situation in India demands immediate
attention from all Communist Parties. The
social-fascist Macdonald is watching develop
ments and making careful preparations in case
the situation becomes serious"
All told there are about 100000 imperialist
troops available in India Tanks and airplanes
will supplement them at short notice Should
the movement continue to develop-as it is do
ing-and get beyond the stage at which Gandhi
can sell it out for dominion status" or some
concession to the native lords of India, Mac
Donald will rush warshps and all necessary
force to India to crush the workers and peas
ants.
Macdonald has Just achieved four Victories
for the imperialists of Great Britain. l. TIE
Naval Reduction Conference for which he
has been cornplimented by Baldwin; 2. The
budget for which Lloyd George has decided 10
give complete support to the Labor" govern
ment, and Walter Runciman, liberal paria-
mentary leader has decided that "Mr. Snow
den is the best chancellor of the exchequer
England has had in six years." 8. The forma-
ton of the Bankers Industrial Development
Company" for naturalization purposes. when
a rank Conservative asked "Do we understand
that the government has definitely gone back
on all socialist schemes" there was an uproar
in parliamentD 4. Macdonald has come to an
agreement with Egypt, whereby Egypt gets
independence" but British troops remain
there!
What More Could They Do?
What more could any capitalist or social
imperialist do for the imperialists of any coun-
try than Ramsay Macdonald has done for
British imperialism? Baldwin himself could
not have done better-and therefore the Mac
Donald government will remain. Even more
since force will be used in India, as it recently
was used in Nigeria, and since the Labor Gov
eminent is doing the dirty killing work with
such efficiency, it will remain at the helm.
But the unemployment problem in England
has not yet been tackled-and j. H. Thomas
has no promising program except to let the
unemployed continue to suffer. British foreign
trade-exports and imports-has suffered
serious decline similar to that of the United
States, Canada and Germany. strike of
10000 wool workers against a wage reduc-
ton has broken out. 1t is being led by the
revolutionary movement. In these two ques-
tons, Macdonald will show his face at home.
He will treat the workers exactly as they were
handled on Black Friday, 1926-only this time
they not only will have the Trade Union Con-
gress against them, but the Labor government
(then the Labor opposition) will try to crush
them.
Left Takers.
The Left" Laborites, led by Maxton, are not
satisfied. On the contrary, they rebelled'
against the budget. This is the revolt of
the Cooks Bandsburys, etc, in 1926 which
made the sell-out of the workers in the general
strike more acceptable.
To be sure, any honest worker must resent
the budget of four billion taken out of the hide
of the harassed workers. budget that evoked
the following from Runciman: 81 am CRATE
full to the Labor government for what it has
done with our finances and in the naval con-
ference. BY its understanding it has benefited
the British taxpayer" No better testimonial
could be asked
Maxton's rebellion" was hppocritical just
as his declaration at the Anti-Imperialist Con
gress in Frankfurt last year, against the i'm
perialit policy of the Labor Party was hypo-
critical-in fact so much so that shortly after
his return to England he had to be expelled
from the Anti-Imperialist League.
The Bauer Type.
In Austria we have examples of the state
rule of these cleft" social-fascist social-demo-
Gratis under the leadership of Otto Bauer. In
the Struggle" against the fascsts, they re-
treated step by step, till on demand of the
fascists, they curbed the rights of the workers,
disarmed them, allowed the fascists legal right
to ARM gave rural Austria, where the fascists
are strong, power over the Vienna Municipal
Council-and the counter revolution was COM
plete-without shedding drop of fascist blood!
This is typical instance of cleft" social-fas
sists!
In Holland. the socal-fascist social-demo-
cratic Labor Party at its convention in Ut