The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 29, 1927, Page 6

In the Wake of the News ‘T°HE Cantonese may remember the saying about Greeks bearing gifts when Great Britain’s represen- tative offers them a compromise. And what a magnanimous com- promise! England is now willing to allow the Chinese to run their own country, but there are sure to be ome condition attached. Until re- cently the British adopted a trucu- lent attitude towards China. The idea of the “heathen Chinese” being on equal terms with Britain! But force is a great convincer and now England is ready to allow the Chi- nese a few rights in their own home. "THE armed power of Chinese mas- ses led by *Koumintang and sup* ported by propaganda has proved mightier in bringing the long op- pressed people of that country to the threshold of national deliver- ance than all the puny efforts of ail the pacifist well-wishers that ever lived. The failure of the robber im- perialists to agree among them- selves helped. The powerful aid of the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union was at least equally effective. In all probability the Can- tonese will have succeeded in unify- ing China by next summer. Then there is certain to ensue another struggle between the reactionary Chinese who wish to develop the country imte a capitalist exploiting ell and those who wish to begin laying the groundwork for a Work- ers’ and Peasants’ government. Bd 7 * HERE is a very interesting trial going on in London. The ashes of the notorious hypocrite Gladstone are being raked and the result is not soothing to the nostrils of British liberalism. Gladstone was the most nauseating blue-nosed moralist in England. He posed before the public as a paragon of virtue. He admitted that he was ‘a pillar of rectitude. When at the height of his career as liberal leader he was confronted by his master in the person of Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish nationalist leader, Gladstone — sei about to devise ways and means of ruining his political foe. He found the means.in the person of Kitty O'Shea, the wife ef a British army officer. HEN the news about Parnell’: relations with Mrs. O’Shea came to light, Gladstone, who posed as a friend of the Irish cause, turned his eyes to heaven, beat his breast and with bell, book and candlelight pro- nounced the sentence of political ex- communication on, Parnell. An im- moral man was not fit te associate with the purified statesmen of Great Britain! The catholie clergy, those vultures who are ever to plunge their beaks into a militant fighter against the ruling classes, sided with Gladstone. So did the majority of the politicians who knew that Parnell stood between them an] he money bags of the British treas- wy. Parnel! died a ruined mat ré OW it can be told” about Gladstone. The truth about the thining example of moral rectitude las been exhumed and the British ire learnicg something they d‘d not inow about one of their favorite his- torical fixtures. A writer who knew a good thing when he saw it spilled ‘the dirt” on Gladstone. He git a hearing immediately. There is noth- ing the public likes better than to ratch their heroes in a compromising position. The writer proved that Gladstone was by no means what he eracked himself up to be. For one clandestine love affair Charles Stew- art Parnell had, the liberal leader had one hundred. What of it? That was the old man’s business! People do not love Anatoie France less be- cause he loved well and perhaps wisely. But the French are not the British and a novelist is not neces- sarily a politician. a come OR ages the ruling classes have handed a moral code to their slaves and compelled them to I've up te-it under penalties, the penalty de pending on ability of the ruling clas- ses to inflict it. In the twelfth cen- tury an English king, possessing much less power than that possessed by Gladstone could command _ his fiunkeys to seize 2 damsel and take her into his castle by force. His subjects would continue to till the soil and think nothing of it. «To them it was just as legal for the king to do that as the average work- er of today thinks it is for the capi- talist to exploit him in a. factory. But in Gladstone’s days the masses did not have the same mental atti- tude towards their rulers. They kept an eye on them. Therefore Giadstore had to prowl around Hyde Park and way. He see what might come his had to be cautious, since he was a statesman. And it would not look well for the man who hounded Parnell to his grave over an infatuation for another man’s wife to be exposed as a sensualist. * * . A TALE without a moral would be a tale without an end. One of the most favored arguments used by pro-capitalist ofators against social- ists, when socialists were socialists, and today against Communists is that the introduction ef the new or- der of soeiety would destroy the home and the family, introduce po- lygamy and in general turn society By T. J. OFLAHERTY into a sexual madhouse. The capi- talist hacks knew they were indulg- ing in rubbish, that all thru history the ruling classes observed the mora! ethics of the barnyard and that even if radicals set out to deliberately bring society to a lower moral level than prevails tinder capitalism they would find the task impossible. They are simply using a prejudice planted in the minds of the masses by the capitalists themselves te poison the workers’ minds against the message of Communism, just as the hypo- crite Gladstone used it against Par- nell to wreck the Irish revolutionary movement of which Parnell was at the time the “legal’’ leader. Secret Banquets and Open Attacks By WILLIAM PAUL (London) ; Re a hundred different and devious ways the federation of British in- dustries and the government are con- tinuing their attack upon the trade unions. The capitalists and their press, with the aid of the right wing, are doing their utmost to destroy the prestige of well-known left wingers, and, at the same time, to praise those leaders who called off the general strike. This is being done so that the general council may achieve a reactionary tri- umph over the miners’ leaders at the forthcoming conference of trade union executives on January 20, The government and the mine own- ers are deeply interested in helping the general council to whitewash themselves at this conference. A triumph for the general council wilt mean a triumph for “industrial peace” and defeatist tactics in com- ing struggles. It will mean the tem- perary ascendancy of those leaders who, helped the government to defeat the miners, and who, by their subsi- dized writings in the millionaire press, are preparing the way for the government’s legislation against trade. unionism. Reaction’s United Front. Baldwin, Churchill and lord Wim- borne’ remember how the general council saved the government and the mine owners by calling off the gen- eral strike when the masses were sweeping forward to -vietory. It is, therefore, necessary for the govern- ment and the mine owners to see to it that the general council score heay- ily at the conference of trade union executives. To attain this end Baldwin, Church- ii and lord Wimborne—backed up by the powerful millionaire press and the federation of British industries—are leaving no stene unturned te attain their object.. This may be seen in the secret hanguet recen#hy given by lord Wimborne, and attended by Winston Churchill, viscount D’Abernon, Hugo Hirst, Philip Snowden, J. R. Clynes, Arthur Pugh, C, T. Cramp, and Robert Williams. Every honest worker knows that lord Wimborne, the mine owner, and the members of the Baldwin govern- ment—which starved and imprisoned the miners—do not dine and win la- bor leaders because they are anxious to see them happy. Important problems, of vital inter- est to tho workers, were discussed, We know this because of what -bas happened since the secret dinner took place. sir The Price Paid. Ve know, for example, that one of the first things that happened was an outrageous attack upon the miners’ leaders, in the capitalist press, by the right honorable Philip Snowden, M.P., P.C., LLP. A. J. Cook, who loyally carried out the delegate conference decisions of the Miners’ Federation, is compared to Judas. Snowden, in his frenzy Cook, declares: “He has wrecked the Miners’ Fed- eration, destroyed the thirty years’ work of infinitely better men than against himself, given to the mine owners a power they have never before pos- sessed, given the conservative gov- ernment an excuse for lengthening hours and making a general attack upon trade union rights, reduced prac- tically every trade union to a state of bankruptcy, and inflicted perma- nent injury upon British trade.” Not one word against the govern- ment; not one word against police terrorism in the coalfields, er a pro-~ test against the starving of ehildren and women by Baldwin and Church- ill; net one syllable against the use of the press and pulpit to insult the miners—of the general strike, the re- fusal to impose the embargo, and the treachery of the right honorable la- bor leaders who accepted twenty guineas per article from the mil- lionaire press mongers to attack mili- tant trade unionism. One man alone is to blame—A. J. Cook! Snowden also attacks Russia. And by so doing shows that he is leading an offensive against militant leader- ship at home and abroad. Anglo-Russian trade union unity is the one real link of international (Continued on page 5) Huge Gellert in New Masses. A Triple Alliance. aw, 2 uae