WAR AGAINST CAPITAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19269, 5 September 1924, Page 7

WAR AGAINST CAPITAL

VITROLIG RESOLUTIONS. “GINGERING UP" THE UNIONS, LONDON, August 25. The National Minority Movement which aims at “gingering up’’ trades unionism, and which is holding a conference, has carried unanimously 50 revolutionary resolutions, including a decision to "feate a national body for • the purpose of marshalling British workers to overthrow capitalism and establish a Socialist commonwealth. The conference decided also to carry on propaganda in favour of the development of class conflict, and to inaugurate relations with revolutionaries throughout the world, and also to’ affiliate British trade unions with the Red International. John Campbell, the editor of the Communist organ, the Workers’ Weekly, against whom a charge of inciting soldiers to mutiny was laid, and afterwards withdrawn by the Government, declared chat the movement must include Asiatics and Chinese. Ruth Fischer, a vivacious Viennese, speaking on behalf of 50 Communists, roundly jeered Mr Ramsay MacDonald for taking the delegates to the London Conference to the fleet review at Spithead.’ She asserted that Mr MacDonald was a friend of the capitalists. ’ihe Dawes plan, she said, meant'the dismissal of thouands of workers, and would precipitate economic crises, which even Britain would not escape. ‘‘lf there has ever been a movement possessing fools, twisters and crooks, it is Labour; but it will survive this mistake,’’ said Mr James Maxton, a Scottish Labour M.P., addressing the Independent Labour Party’s summer school. “Labour members who go to Buckingham Palace tea parties ought to find time to come here, which is more vital than hobnobbing with the upper classes. We backbenchers have continually to be prodding the Cabinet in order to keep them ordinary men.’’