The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-19

would have all the more rapidly advanced,
smashing the Labor Party.
But the "spHt" has the effect that all the
crimes of the Labor Government, l. e, Of the
Labor Party all the anger and discomfort Of
the working class, are thrown on to the shoul-
ders of Macdonald Snowden- Thomas as Gin
dividuals"; and the Labor Party is enabled to
come up anew as if "purged" and re-won to
the fight, to deceive the workers anew.
In this sense Macdonald and snowden have
made the supreme sacrifice" for the sake Of
the bourgeoisie, and deserve their bourgeois
praise AS the al-Denocratic "Arbeiter-
zeitung" Of Vienna, has cynically declared:
Macdonald, as statesman, saves the State;
while Henderson, as the secretary of the party,
saves the party"
The false differentiation between Macdonald
and Henderson was the sole remaining man
euver possible to defeat the rising real differ
entiation of the working class against both
and so to save the Labor Party.
This attempted revival of the Labor Party is
now the key problem of the political situation
for the working class. On the success in seeing
through and defeating this naneuver depends
the success in defeating the situation to real
advance of the working class.
Think what it means.
The Labor Party is to come up smiling again
how gleefully they all are at present!-with
its same discredited program, its same lying
promises of reforms to draw the workers hopes
to it again by philanthropic talk of the wicked
ness of cuts and its glowing schemes Of CAPT.
talist reconstruction and so to draw the workers
to another Labor Government of capitalist adj
ministration with an inevitably yet more terrible
outcome.
The answer of the working class to this in
sOlent attempt at a comeback of the Labor
Party, to this cool presenting of Henderson
Labor Government, with exactly the same pro-
gram of the Macdonald Labor Government,
as the solution of the crisis must be and can
only be Never Again."
The lesson Of the second Labor Government,
of the increasing crisis, of the deception of all
its promises and the worsening of the conditions
of the workers and its final inevitable outcome
in the National Government which it led up
to and smoothed the way for, must be learned
once and for all.
Not this way lies the path Of the workers,
It is not enough to fight the present Labor
Opposition as we fought them six years ago, or
ten years ago, before they were exposed in the
searching light of the Labor Government and
the economic crisis.
1t is not enough to say that their opposition
is sham opposition, that they will not fight,
that they are buffers, that they will confine the
struggle to Parliamentary channels, that these
leaders are not to be trusted
We must expose the whole line of the Labor
Party; we must show the meaning of their
present role; we must show how, after the most
complete exposure and shattering of capitalist
and Labor policy, they are attempting, not only
to sabotage and paralyze the immediate struggle
of the workers, but to draw the workers back
to new hopes in capitalism in the possibility of
capitalist revival and reconstruction as the solu
ton of the crisis; and to begin the cycle over
again.
We are fighting cuts This Is the heart
of the immediate fight.
We are fighting the heaviest capitalist often
sive yet, against which the Communist Party
has been continuously giving warning when all
the Labor leaders were speaking of the prospects
Of return of prosperity.
But the cuts, the pence and the Shilngs of the
workers livelihood are only the expression
of bigger fight, of political fight.
These cuts, and the dictatorship to enforce
them, represent the supreme attempt of crum-
bling and shaking British capitalism to restore
itself on the backs Of the workers.
Our fight against them is not fight to find
an alternative path of capitalist restoration, as
Gne LdDOr ledQeTS urge d
The goal and meaning of our fight is to over
throw capitalism and solve the crisis by the
workng-class dictatorship to drive out the para
sites and build up Socialism.
This revolutionary aim comes now to the
forefront more than ever as the direct out
come of the new stage of the crisis.
Labor has failed. Capitalism offers only
intensified dictatorship and cuts.
The only path forward for the workers is the
path of revolutionary struggle. 1t is at this
point that the Labor Party endeavors to re-
establish itself, to draw the workers to new lying
hopes in capitalist revival.
This is the supreme task of the Labor Party
in saving capitalism at the present stage.
The "NationaI" Government marks a new
stage-the beginning of new stage of capitalist
politics in the crisis corresponding to the Brue-
ming dictatorship in Germany
How complete is the transformation will still
only gradually be realized events develop.
The present form of the National" Government
may or may not prove longer-lasting
There is already plentiful talk of the necessity
of its longer continuance than the "few weeks"
originally proclaimed.
The task of balancing the budget" is only
the prelude to very much larger and longer
process, which will govern the conditions of the
whole period ahead.
1t may be that the bourgeoisie will press for
ward to further forms beyond the present
National" Government; may find it necessary,
if the class struggle increases with great inten-
sity to advance to increasingly open Fascist