By OuR Lanour Connesroxnen, parsons and prelates. The '"Worker's Weekly" stresses the difference between principles and practice in the public life of Labour leaders. The average reader finds such stuff much more congenial reading than essays by MacDonald on the continuity of foreign policy, or laboured apologetics for the disparity _between the fresh salmon promised on the soap box and the stale delivered from Downing Street. the local Labour Party. Among them: was Munro, and a moderate named Hookway, who acts as the Labour Party chairman, At the last meeting? Hookway, the Chairman, in accordance with the Naional Party's instructions, ordered his Communist fellow delegate to leave the meeting. 'At the next Trades' Council meeting the members decided to withdraw all its delegates from the other body, including Hookway, ax a reprisal: Many other delegates have left for the he wrote in a message to the Burns Federation to the effect that "ig would be a thousand pities this grand old dialect were to die out.
Among the' innumerable things said at Borns dinners, one suggestion made by Prof. Gray ix worth consideration. Burns, he said, gave Lack to Scotland the individual soul she was in some danger of losing very critical period in her history. There will be little question of The truth of that saying or of vt Manchester, Feb. 2
The most impressive phenomenon in British working class politics at ithe present time is the rapidly in-reusing support that is being given to the avowed partisans of the Communists, A great change is coming over. the British proletariat in this respect. 'The Russia that was thought "three years ago to be a Jand of dark tyranny and bloodshed is now being regarded as the worker's Eldorado, The credulous masses who once believed that the syndicated presses' pictures of Moscow as a conglomeration of harems owned by the Commissars and torture chambers run by the Cheka were true, now visualize Russia land of rest houses for tired workers and workshops where work is more secondary matter, The venetion from exaggerated and intensive stunt press proffaganda has come in the same way that it came after the war.
After that orgy of massed lying in which Horatio Bottomley was cast for the part of an avenging God and Ramsey MacDonald for the snake in the Garden of Eden, there was an inevitable swing of the pendulum which landed Bottomley in gaol and MueDonald into the Premiership, And just as the "Daily Mail" and our foul Sunday Press were chiefly responsible for MueDonald's elevation to an office immeasurably above his deserts, so they are today responsible for the widespread opinion among British workers that the Russian workers are the happiest on earth. There are no more fair-play loving workers in. the world than the British, But give a bad dog a worse name than he deserves and keep on doing it and after a time the common ordinary Englishman will find that the victim has all sorts of brave virtues if they are only sought for. Which does something to explain Why Moscow was changed from the of Red Ruin to the city of Hope and light, The Trade Union Turn Political students out of touch with the actual lives of the workers are astonished at the new rule of British trades unionism in inter national Labour polities. A. eoupl of yours ago it was thought that the back-bone of the opposition to the Red unions of Russia would always be found in the conservative and. stolid British trade union group. To find that group doggedly fighting for alliance with the Russian Reds at the last meeting of the Amsterdam International of 'Trade Unions has been a great surprise to those who have not first hand knowledge on what has been happening among the rank and file of the Labour movement since the downfall' of the Labour Govern-
Doctrinaire Socialists of the type of MacDonald and Snowden live in 4 little narrow political world of their own and go on making their Tittle movex and countermoves. in the game of polities with a bland men in the who pay the Dill are equally interested in the verbal points they score. But the trade onion leaders are in closer touch with realities. Some of them see salvation for the existing impasse in " movement to bring employers and employed into more fraternal relations, and do their utmost to boost the organizations that have that end in view. Clynes and Thomas ave the best known exponents of this point of, view. Th trid Britain for the propaganda has a strong
flavour and they—exploit such, remnants of insularity as the warworn British ex-servicemen may still have by deprecating Communism as "foreign." Bolshevism, they say, may be all very well for these barbarous Russians but it is -poor stuff for Britons.
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