The daily worker., 1931-10-30
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The real situation.
The labor party barTicaded the
only way out for werkers-the way OF
revolutionary class struggle. TIE Ia
Dor party carried out the capitalist
policy and prevented the workers
from adopting an anti-capitalist pol
Icy. The masses Of disappointed
workers have now gone over to the
capitalist parties. The Communist
Party alone put forward the policy
81 class against class as the only way
out. The Communist poll was small
since it has not yet succeeded In
naobilizing the masses against the
hunger government The recent mass
demonstrations show that the right
policy is being pursued.
The elections are now past, but the
struggle against wage-cuts, unem-
ployment relief cuts, price increases
and initiation continues. The millions
of workers who now despairingly
voted for the capitalist parties will
fight against capitalism tomorrow.
The elections in Great Britain show
q consolidation of the bourgeois Ma
tional Bloc as part of the tremen-
oous reailgnment of the class forces
The Liberal Party lost about 2,s6S 900
votes since 1929, while the Labor
party lost 100000 votes. The total
loss of both amounted to 4,313,000
votes while the Conservatives gained
only 3.240,oo0, indicating that 1,o72,oo0
voters who participated in the elee-
tions in 1929 did not vote in this
election.
=; Despite the increase In the elec-
torate between 1929 and 1881 of about
4,430,00o eligible voters over one mil
lion less voters participated in the
election. This means that actually
that 5,50O,000 deserted the election
struggle.
The democracy" of the electoral
system of capitalist England is glar-
inngly shown in the fact that there
is absolutely no relation between the
votes cast by the voters for the pari-
Gus parties and the seats obtained in
Parliament. The capitalist press in
Guiding the Daily Herald, the organ
of the Labor Party continues to howl
about the landslide in favor of the
National bloc without as yet paying
any attention to the votes as ac-
tually cast. While the Parliamen-
tary results will enable the National
bloc to put through its program
without much hypocritical squab-
bling by large opposition" it is
the actual vote which is the real
indication of sharpening of the class
struggle ana the ways in which this is
developing.
Stanley Baldwin, leader of the Con-
serVatiYes. gave the keynote for the
.sharpened attack on the working
class. He sctated that the govern
ment must act "energetically, firmly
and Justly, bearing in mind that ma
tienal interests must always come
first" The Interests of the capitalist
class will now be pushed through with
an intensified attack on the working
clas,
SnoWden. former member of the
National government, who has shout
ed violently against the leaders of the
Labor Party for not openly taking
the course that Macdonald and he
took now comes out with the state
ment that the Labor Party is not
completely defeated and can still be
of the greatest service to the cap
italist class If they adopt other
phrases to mislead the workers. He
stated this in the following:
Il do not rejoice at the disaster
which has come to the Labor party.
1 regret it because the Labor lead
ers have brought this catastrophe
upon themselves and their party
by their folly, lack Of courage I'm
Leadership and their misunder-
standing of the popular spirit. They
hoped to exploit the unemployed
for party advantage.
"This is not the end of the Labor