The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
On the
World Front
-Ru HARRY CANNES

HIS Majesty LdDOI
Lieutenants
Advice from the Times
Zurich United Front Of Youth
WHEN the recent bloody
w events in Austria made
it clear to all not wearing the
peace" blinkers of the i'm.
perialist masters that a new
world slaughter was threat
ening all humanity, the Com.
munist Party of Great Britain sent
an urgent proposal for a united
anti-war and anti-fascist front to
the Joint Council of the Labor
Party and the trade union General
Council
His majesty's labor lieutenants
replied in a style that could not be
surpassed by Sir John Simon, Brit
ism FOrelgn Munster.
THE Joint Council sis of the opin-
1 ion," said the rejection of the
United Front offer, that there are
no new circumstances which justify
the trade union, political parlia-
mentary and cooperative move
ments departing from the policy on
this question which has already
been submitted to and approved by
their respective national conferences
and congresses.
UITLER'S instigation of the MUIR
ii der of Dullfuss as signal for war;
the massing of over 100000 of Mus
solini's troops for war; the tremen-
dous air and navy arms race
throughout the world, are, indeed,
no new circumstances" to the
faithful servants of British inpe-
rialism.
These gentlemen have already
declared they would support de.
fensive" war of British imperial
ism, and until the war breaks out
there can be no new circumstan-
ces' for them. The new circums-
tances" for them will be how to
mobilize the growingly militant
toiling masses behind the war
chariot of the British colonial slave
holders.
Despite the rejection of the
United Front proposals, the Com
munist Party declared: in pur-
suance of our allegiance to the
working class and its interests, we
shall continue our efforts to build
up the United Front, in spite of
your refusal and opposition to take
part therein"
0ENSING the rising apprehension
v of the rank and file in the Labor
Party over the chauvinist, reform
list program of their leadership, the
chief organ of British imperialism,
the Times, recently devoted one Of
its leading articles to political adj
vice to its agents in the Labor
Party. What Exactly is the Labor
Party's Objective?" is the title Of
the Times article, aiming to clarity
the role of one its chief bulwarks--
the ruling strata of the Labor Party.
"Hithereto," says the Times, "the
Labor Party has been evolutionary,
as opposed to revolutionary, in its
methods. It's title and its refusal
to style itself the Socialist Party
have allowed it to secure broader
base in trade unioniSm than it
would otherwise have had. The rev.
dictionary forces in the world have
dubbed it and all political parties
of it's kind 'reformist' as term Of
reproach; and so keen is the
anxiety of advanced politicians to
be an acknowledged vanguard that
many have themselves accepted the
description as reproach instead of
a recognition of practical sense and
have adopted, for the sake of the
deeper dye, the phrases OF revolu-
tionaries."
OUCH solicitude for keeping the
" Labor Party leadership true to
its real role in the scheme of Brit
ish imperialism is especially evoked
by the United Front appeals by the
Communist Party, as further on in
its article the Times says, There
is no risk of the Labor Party's
being caught in SO plain snare.
The direct advances of Communism
are easily rejected. !"
Which. of course, permits the
British Shareholders to breath a
sigh of relief and to continue their
feevrish war preparations.
THOUGH the Socialist Party Lead
ership in the United States is
not so openly advised by Wall
Street to reject any United Front
appeals of the Communist Party,
the result to date has been pre-
cisely the same as if they had been.
Mi. Norman Thomas is not so
easily be caughe in the Commu-
mist snare of a genuine United
Front against war and fascism
which might injure Roosevelt's
program of war and fascism.
GENERAL weeks ago the Commu-
y mist Party of Switzerland pro-
posed a United Front against war
and fascism to the Socialist Party.
No official reply was received,
though the Socialist leaders re-
sorted to the most slanderous at
tacks against the Communist Party
in the press.
A general meeting of the Young