Show WORKERS IN FINISH FIGHT ALl LABOR AN SAYS GREAT ISSUE z SUE 1 BE E S SETTLED fi United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON April 9 The 9 The approaching strike is the op opening of a general decisive war between capital and labor Ramsay MacDonald labor leader in ill p parliament declared d in an inte interview interview- i w with the United Press today MacDonald l added that If the general strike is not averted British industry will be paralyzed within a a week There may be some but it will not be the result of deliberate planned bolshevism The workers now thoroughly the distrust distrust the government believing it is an unwitting tool of capital The miners hate capital now as never b before fore The general strike is not merely a walkout by miners railway railwaymen men and transport workers but the showdown in the division of interests between capital and labor generally MacDonald said Capital wan wants wants Cs to force labor to accept anything it wants to offer The government is behind the owners owners but but is only partly conscious of the mischief lief it is doing loin E The min miners miners s determined to have a l living wages wages' vage aref f forced iced p t to fight against the fhe owners oWners' contemplated ted red reduction The Theother oth r workers realize their fight is coming All AU organized labor realizes this is their fight and accepts it as such If the general strike is not halted all British ind industry stry will be at a standstill within a week I IThe The present situation is regarded as a general war opened by bJ capital for the subjection of labor for which the owners and the government have been preparing for months The miners were I Inot not prepared I Capital selected the point of attack planning not only to 1 overwhelm the regiment of miners but butto to smash the entire army of labor British workmen i like soldiers soldiers' in the field awaiting an attack under fire are consequently saying it is better to fight than await the detailed assaults and detailed defeats defeat's of small enemy offensives n T If the triple alliance strikes it will not ot be necessary necessary ry for theother the theother theother other workers yorkers to go out as the stoppage of essential industrial life will mean complete paralysis paralysis' f for r Britain There is no reason to fear deliberate uprisings The committee com eom com committee appointed to handle the strike is keeping the the he men under discipline I reh returned yesterday esterday from Scotland where the miners are the reddest in Britain Any talk that they are planning to form Soviets is nonsense They are young intelligent and studious They ey detest the present system and are determined to change chang it If troubles comes it will be through some impulsive fiery youngster not caring for communism but rising against the capitalist system and stirring up the others Bothers ers by oratory until they also become impulsive The min miners rs hate capital now as never before They distrust the government believing it is incapable of being impartial They are arc determined that if they fight at all the they will fight hard There may be some aking but it won wont won't j be the result of of planned deliberate bolshevism only bolshevism only the blind impulsive fight 0 for life |