Since the fall of the Labour Gov-Jernment a great revulsion has taken place, in the attitude of the organized working man towards that ill-starred adventure. Many defeated Labour members have indulged in some very candid [speaking about MacDonald's polit ical trickery and Labour's wasted opportunities, This plain speaking. Joined to the massed offensive tae Communists against the Labour Party, and helped by nearly every. worker's conviction that he is not 2 scrap better off than he was be-Ture as a result of Labour's period office has had an obvious result, The more careless and cynical of Labour's old, supporters are cease jing to take an. interest in its political fortunes, and the more earnest and determined are beginning to look for salvation elsewhere.
They have not far to look. Never k passes in any: considerable centre without a Communist demonstration of some kind. Already the British Communists have more weekly and monthly periodicals than all the rest of the Labour and Socialist parties combined. Sellers of their literature Jare to be seen in crowds outside every political meeting doing a brisk trade in all sorts of well printed and illustrated propagandist matter. There is always a ready sale for the illustrated monthly at twopence that gives a profusion of pictures of the Russian workers doing everything but work. Last month a new periodical catled "The Soark" wax started in the Lancashire area.
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