Tt may be as well to face facts and admit that these patriots at Gghting a losing battle. years of Whitleyism and other anti-class-war schemes to sweeten the relations of Capital and Labour one Jclear fact emerges, that when trade is bad the employers force the workers to accept lower wages and worse conditions; when it is good the workers compel the employers to pay them more money for less work. All that the Joint Industrial Councils and the rest of the Jelaborate conciliation machinery achieves is to prolong the periods lof negotiation before drastic action taken and each side is now Isufficently alert to allow for thi Jand make their demands earlier than they otherwise would.
But if in this problem of inclu trial conflict the old type of trade union leader demonstrates his inability to face facts and thereby loses prestige, he has yet more sympathizers among the workers than his out-and-out Communist opponents. They are guilty of a tactical error altogether more damning. For the—Communist policy in Great Britain is to give full support to any and every strike, matter what it is for, or how it has arisen, Aa very few strikes of muy kind are now successful and very one in which the Communists have had a hand has ended in defeat for the men their reputation as strike leaders stands at zero. The only practical experience of Communism that thousands of lips British workers have had has [served to identify that social heresy with the most crushing humiliating defeats they have ever experienced. That Communism, despite this, ix making huge strides in Great Britain only shows how discredited in the eyes of the Jworkers its alternatives are, and how adroit the rest of its" propaganda must be
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