The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-01
The New British
Cabinet
BY r. g. (Lou1onl.

THE new Cabinet OF Ramsay Macdonald is a
c-reIully chosen collection OF reacCionaries
WHO can be relied upon in any and every cir
cUmctance to pursue a policy of hostility to the
Soviet Union. and to wage the capitalist often
sre relente5sly at home.
Its composition is II Tories Liberal followers
of Sir John Simon vino TO-DAY are indistinguish-
able from Tories 3 Liberal followers OF Sir Her.
beit Samuel and four followers OF Ramsay
Macdonald from the Labor Party.
The anti-Soyiet venom of the leading men,
bcrS of the Cabinet is well-known TO ALL but
amongst the lesser-known members also
Some with a long record Of art-Soviet activity
There is Sir Samuel Hoare. the Secretary for
India, who was Minister for Air in the last two
Baldwin Governments He comes of a mercan-
tile family which for generations had done its
main business with Russia, until the Revolution
During the war he was attached to the British
Intelligence in Russia. and ever since the Revo-
luton he has conSorted constantly with White
eIfigreS and participated in every anti-Soyet
propaganda body started in Britain
There is Sir Edward Hilton Young, the Minis
ter of Heath, who commended an armored train
in General Irorsides expedition in Siberia in
1919. 1e lost an arm during this expedition and
was rewarded with the Distinguished Service
Oroer fc~ his share in the slaughter of the Rus
sian workers. It was he. along with Churchill
and Lord Brentford (Joynson- Hicks, who
founded the Trade Defense Union early this.
year, body whose object it was to get the
Government to declare an economic boycott of
the Soviet Union, putting forward the most
pious and Christian reasons for this course. This
organization held a demonstration at the Albert
Hall in March last, which broken up by in
dgnant workers At this demonstration it was
Hilton Young who moved the boycott resolution,
and running through his speech all the time was
the implicit threat Of war.
Hilton Young is Director OF the Hudson Bay
Company, which exports wheat, timber and fms
from Canada. The revival of Russian exports
Of these articles has hit the company hard, and
only drastic reorganization saved it from col
lapse this year. Hilton Young's interests in this
direction afford more material basis for his
consistent ant-Soviet activities than do his pious
patitudes about slave labor" to which he con-
fines himself upon the platform.
Another new Cabinet Minister is Ormsby-Gore
Commissioner of Works., who after the
petion of the Pact of Locarno announced that
it was to be welcomed primarily as paving the
way for united European bloc AGAINST that
menace to civilization" the SC ret Union.
The new Minister of War is Lord Hailsham a
lawyer no has been Attorr y G ]1eral and Lord
Chancellor in previous Tory administrations. He
it was who initiated and conducted the prose-
cution of the IL CcmmuniSt leaders in 1925 on
a charge Of conspiracy" He has consistently
aligned himself with every form of anti-Soviet
propa ganda and was to the lore in 1896 in urg-
ing the breaking Of political relations with the
Soviet Government. At the War Office he can
be relied upon to make common cause with the
French and other European General Stats in
furtherance of the anti Communist campaigns.
In charge Of the Air Force is Lord London
derry, the wealthiest most influential and
(among the miners the most hated coalowner