The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-31
The StaleVart British
Workers Fight

THE strike of the cotton of Lancashire the oldest
craft in one of the strongest sections of the British trade
unions have come out against wage slash The strike is
spreading and signs point to of the biggest battles
of the textile industry in many years.
The textile industry in Britain has long been in crisis
It has felt the worst blows of decayng British capitalism
Unemployment has been widespread Misery and poverty
have devastated the of Yorkshire and Lancashire
british capitalism has attempted to overcome the crisis
in the textile industry at the expense of the workers
1t was the special role of the Macdonald to carry
through wage and speedp in order raise the profits
of the textile employers The Macdonald government which
Norman Thomas and Morris Hilquit held up model
socialism for the American workers to follow carried
through one wage slash after another The Lancashire
workers received twelve and onehaf per cent cut
The wooden suffered 10 per cent cut through the
arbitration scheme of the Macdonald government and the
cunning treachery of the trade union bureaucrats.
The textile workers that have glorious traditions of
struggles have not accepted their situation without fight
In April $780, over the heads of their leaders, the York
shire weavers carried ten weeks struggle Time and
again large numbering hundreds of thousands closed
down the shops protest against the capitalist attacks.
THE present fight which about two hundred thousand
workers already involved show the rise in the
militant actions of the British working class All signs
show that strike will only embrace the cotton
ers also spnners and become general strike of the
textile workers The miancy of the is shown by
frantic appeal of the trade union leaders to the
to take action to stop the Already in the
1880 strike of the Yorkshire weavers the revolutionary
trade unionsts the Minority Movement and the Communist
Party played important part In the present strike the
actions of the mants squirting rank and file action
The strike will deepen the crisis of British capitalism
and will strengthen the forces for revolutionary out
the misery poverty the oldest working of the
world 1t will stimulate and strengthen the actions of
the textile workers in other countries.
The American textile who suffered savage
wage and who have felt the whip lash of the textile
should make this strike of the stawar British work
ers their They should give expression of international
will be against the British workers The Amer
general should to it that hunger does not strike down
these battling workers
OUCH international solidarity of American and British
workers will weld the forces of international labor in
the fight against mperiaist 1t will strengthen the
bonds in the struggle against the being prepared by the
British and American mperast giants settle the ques
ton of who shall control the plumber of the world and
all will build powerful for the defense of the
Soviet Union in which the wages and living conditions of the
workers rising the socialist atherand which these i'm
perialist war makers are striving to destroy.