The daily worker., 1935-02-15
World Front
- By HARRY CANNES -
Rising Storm in Britain
United Front Steps
MaxtOn at c. P. Congress
Bv HARRY CANNES


MaxtOn at c. P. Congress
THOUGH showing it into OBJ
L scure corners, the Ameri-
can capitalist press has al-
ready told of the nervous
tremors shaking the British
parliament at the unparalleled.
militant, fighting movement
of millions of workers against the
starvation changes in the Unem-
ployment Act.
But what has not come out is the
remarkable development Of the
united front for which the Com
munist Party of Great Britain has
long been fighting.
Like a sudden storm. the furor
of the British working class has
been unloosed. But the clouds have
long been gathering. The patient,
untiring and brilliant work Of the
Communist Party Of Great Britain
is now materializing in a united
front movement that is worrying his
Majesty's servants like Macdonald,
| Citrine & Co.
Recently the Communist Party
and the Independent Labor Party
sent Joint letter to the Labor
Party asking them to Join the
United Front. The letter was signed
by H. Pollitt and w GALLAGHER for
the Communist Party, and by F.
Brockway and j. Maxton for the
I. L. P.
More than that. Maxton was ap-
pointed by the LIP. as a fraternal
delegate to the Congress Of the
Communist Party.
QEFORE quoting from the united
- front declaration, we wish here
briefly to mention a few of the mass
actions which led up to it. Hardly
day has passed since the passage
of the new Unemployment Act,
which shamelessly slashes relief lin
the style of Roosevelts works act
proposaD that the workers we're not
out on the streets in scores of cities.
Fifteen thousand workers met in
Maesteg; 10000 marched against
the cut in relief scales in Aberdare,
or two-thirds of the entire popula-
ton; in one day over $4,000 work.
ers in two cities demonstrated
against the slash in relief, etc, etc.
In Wales the miners called for
a general strike on Feb. 25 against
the Unemployment Act.
The Communist Party of Great
Britain is now preparing for huge
nationwide demonstration on Feb.
"a that will draw millions Of work.
ers in struggle against the cut in
relief, and against the increasingly
fascist measures of the National
Government.
THE Labor Party officials at first
L thought the Act would go over
without much struggle. The Labor
Herald declared soon after the pas
sage of the Act. TN most cases
there will be no immediate altera-
ton" The workers discovered diff
ferently Then the storm broke,
The Labor Herald began to see its
mistake, and declared: I'm district
after district, the unemployed find
themselves not a little better off,
not even as well off, but much worse
off"
Lansbury, spokesman for the Lac
Dor Party, when he saw the rising
united front movement. was forced
to declare in parliament: THAT all
sections of the British Labor move
ment will unite against the whole
sale starvation of men, women and
children"
| The united front declaration to
the British Labor Party of the Com
munist Party and the LIP. stated:
"Never in recent times has the
working class movement of this
country been faced with such an
attack as has now been launched
through the national UnempIoy-
ment Board, and the new relief
scales. This protest is not con-
fined to any one particular sec
ton of the movement. Members
of Parliament, county and local
councillors, trade union officials,
AS well as local Labor, Cooperative,
trade union organizations have
been drawn into the effort that
is being made to force the with
drawal of these iniauitous scales.
Everywhere the demand is for
united action. The I. l.. P. and
the Communist Party urge you at
this critical moment in the his
tory of the working class, to make
this need for united action the
major consideration"
British capitalism is growing un-
easy at the rising united front
movement, the mood of struggle of
the workers, the new downward dip
in the depression, the signals of
rising class battles.