The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
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presentation Of the unemployed Pc
tition to Parliament. Repeated club
bling Of foot and mounted police
failed to clear Parliament Square.
Twelve arrests were made and one
worker was seriously injured. Three
police were sent to the hospital. De-
spite the prohibition, crowds march
ed through Whitehall to Hyde Park
where a meeting of forty thousand
strong was held. Amazing scenes
occurred in the park when workers
tore up wooden palings, using them
as weapons against the police.
The British capitalist class is de-
termined to keep Macdonald In It's
government at this time. 1t has been
almost made certain that there will
be no elections in the near future
and that the Macdonald govern
ment will continue to govern by fasr
cist DEGREES. The New York Times
points out that "if an election is not
held, Parliament probably will be ad-
journed until Spring" This means
that Macdonald will put thru the
attack on the working class thru the
Orders in Council and without bene-
fit of the democratic" capitalist
Parliament.
The Times reports that the Con-
sentative leaders,
now are willing to give him a
free hand to appeal to the country
to restore the present government
to power with a mandate to solve
the financial difficulties by the
best means available"
The Conservatives who were the
most vigorous in the demand for an
election are willing to avoid one at
the present time. They want Mac
Donald to use the "best means avail
able" to save the capitalist system
in Great Britain& Macdonald has
already shown what these measures
are - clubbing the masses who are
protesting against his hunger budget.
The attack on the Daily Worker of
London and the establishment Of a
censorship over 1t are the MacDon-
aid measures" against the leader Of
the working class, the Communist
Party Of Great Britain.
In order to make the introduction
Of fascisnl easier the British Labor
Party has drawn up an election plat
form attacking the government pro-
gram. This platform attacks the
initiation, the tariff increase, and the
hunger budget Of Macdonald. This
hunger program Of the capitalist
class which the Labor Party now at
tacks. in order to mislead the work.
ing masses. was prepared in prac-
tically all Of its details and has been
advocated by the leaders Of the La
Dor. Party just prior to the time
that the Labor government was
taken out by the capitalist class in
order to put in the National gov
eminent. The capitalist class real
lied very well the rising militancy Of
the masses and has saved the Labor
Party for Just the role it is now
playing - shouting militant phrases
in order to prevent the workers from
realizing the Introduction of fascist
rule and fighting it.
The Labor Party in its election
platform comes out with the program
of the British capitalist class for an
international conference on the
question of international financial
stability. The British bankers are
demanding this conference as part Of
their struggle against the bankers Of
France and the United States. The
Labor Party brings forth this de-
mand of the British bankers In order
to fool the workers that they can ex-
pect anything from such conferences.
The Labor Party realizes that the
terrific increase in the number OF
jobless brings with it threat to the
entire British imperialist system. In
the last week there has been an in
crease of 22,535 in the number Of
unemployed which has now reached
a total of 2,8l1,615. Due to the sharp
slump In the foreign trade, Of Great
Britain the longshoremen and the
seamen have been hit particularly
hard NV acknowledgements =.