NO PACT WITH LIBERALS, MACDONALD SAYS; "WE ARE OUT TO WIN A WORKING MAJORITY"
P., J. Ramsay MacDonald, M.
No Pact With Liberals, MacDonald Says; "We Are Out to Win A Working Majority" British Labor Leader Tells Of dosing Days Of British Parliament By J. Ramsay MacDooald, M. P. LONDON. ^MIDST tbe...
...Pokroffsky retyped the letter on stationery of tte Communist International and mailed It, registered, to the Soviet Mission, London...
...Tte OraaTsergiiiiliiHis wblek sgisatad Job wtoeb, ta"rark *aad* Wtth tte*farmer Komiew, who was said to have acquired British rttiaraahto during tte war, for the material...
...The "rpr*1...
...and though we may expect a shop-window budget from Mr...
...fact St that tte 'fin, tte weather, the migration from mining- districts, and toe inevitable apathy when hy-elections are so near the end of a Parliament, are responsible for tower • • . Kumars persist that tte election is tobe held in May...
...The Liberals won...
...The circumstantial character of this account, together with the fact that corroborative evidence bad already been obtained of the connections which actually did exist between Pokroffsky, Orloff and Gumanski, leads tbe Berlin police to consider it worth their serious attention, although they egeateate tbe difficulty of proving It except by the confession of some of tbe persona implicated...
...Z know that tbe old days when we were a band of crusading brothers have gone, never, to return to us again...
...jjSj Wide wisy...
...Forgers Held In Berlin The police Investigation now being made in Berlin promises to reveal tbe gang which has been forging documents, among them being the Zinovieff letter and the faked letters designed to incriminate Senator Borah with the Soviet Government...
...This step/ drone tte Ases of Gold and of Dust sod Ashes...
...XtasaSed Man-i Testimony...
...I must confess to s feeling of the Jan In these precincts...
...and it will appear In a Socialist paper, which X strongly recommend you to take as s substitute tor a Godless paper which teaches men to desecrate tte Sabbath, and spend the day with tte thoughts and cares of mundane things.'' He was a Presbyterian elder, and that struck him hard...
...The heroics, which only deepen misery, ami the attacks which break the isasnHatliia and the hearts of the workers, have no place in oar political drama...
...ranged jykVXDG...
...Plve are La bo rites...
...We do not belong to the order of the harum-scarum...
...X do not know, but, of coarse, it le possible...
...The Liberal party gained two Of these seats, which was somewhat of a surprise, but its patchy showing in the other districts snows its fatal dcnricnctfs...
...One riiwvtesatj Tmaneatsd Orloff aad Gumanski now stubbornly deny any knowledge of tbe origin of the Zinovieff letter sad the police further point out Gumanski't reputation for boasting and believe it not beyond tte bounds of possibility that be may bare actually talked In this manner for tbe mere purpose of proving his importance In tbe world of document forgers, If only through professional pride...
...Tbe success of Nationalisation, both In tbe form of state and of Municipal property and control, has been established beyond a preadventure, and tbe harder we hammer that Into tbe minds of people the more successful shall we be...
...We seem to teas tesa saaad by Noah %> ligasui ax tte drstnegs of tte swamps left to the Mount Ararat region...
...to person f "phone Pennypacker 74M1 a at the Jewish Dally Porward...
...1034...
...I am sleepy," sold I, "and I don't want to laugh.'' Then he told me that It was an appeal to rally tbe deserting ranks of Ids friends...
...Miss Lee defeated Lord Scone, by 15,711 votes to 9.133...
...1 deplore many of tbe payments that we now make...
...24 years old, the daughter of a poor miner...
...stand by the program and the policy of the Labor Party, and by that alone, and, if we are called upon to take office, those who disagree with that can Tote against us, and take the consequences...
...But what a gkrrftw Jail it to, fun of mood, •ad Isssjisjsaiiiiti fan of Inspirit...
...Of tbe three men now under arrest to Berlin, at toast one, Gumanski, was implicated by Sergey Druxhllovsky, tte famous, forger and spy executed two yean ago In Moscow...
...May Utt, Miami, riSi*:"**^l Plans for these meeting...
...The labor Party romped off with one of the five Tory seats, and polled tremendous votes in the other districts...
...Jesse Holme, of Swerthmore Cuten> will be tte Tossunsster...
...This document created s sensation and it appeared too dose to tte ejection to permit of any effective answer...
...If we cannot do that, we am unworthy of the uiiiMmwh of the working class itself...
...A few days before tte election the now famous Zinovieff "letter" was broadcast in tbe press to create tte impression that the Labor Party was under tte Influence of the Communist International...
...The fight was complicated by the presence of an Independent candidate who polled 3,000 votes...
...Its personnel k said to be comprised chiefly of Russian emigres...
...Official—Who paid them...
...fj Tickets amy be obtained at tte party . office in tbe Labor Institute by mas sr...
...087 for...
...Widespread Activity Alleged (Br a New Leaser Cwrespntieal) LONDON.—Dislosures made in Berlin regarding the Zinovieff letter published a few days before the British elections in 1*34 will probably reveal the source of that document...
...He was, however, evidently reconciling himself to penury on something like 125.0O0 a year as tte result of being robbed and ruined by a Labor Government...
...Whether the Interval of desertion baa been long or short, whether it has been spent st home or abroad, amidst blooming whins or desert sands, when X come back here it is obliterated, and when I see the Speaker in tbe chair it seems but yesterday when I last saw htm there half empty tbe House to his command: "The Clerk win now proceed to read tbe Orders of tbe Day...
...Not read the "Sunday Times'' said be...
...the seat, despite a smashing campaign pot up by G. R. Blanco White on behalf of Labor...
...K> Sunday...
...The Tor* "victory*' in Bast ToxSEh, reported In The New Leader last week, cut the Tory down, from 16,130 (in 1894) to 10,000...
...Tte fight here is over...
...41 The banquet will be held in the dkagfl room of tbe Labor Institute at BO LoecS street on Sunday, April 14...
...land where It was approved and returned with Instructions as to the method by which it was to be launched...
...Tte more tte cause mesne to us, tte more must we feel degraded by cash payments for service given to it...
...May Mk (aftrrueesl mM aasswL VS...
...Despite the gain, the Liberals stilled trailed behind Labor...
...we have edited them, aad have tried, for tte sake of our people, to keep them op to tte mark, but they have gone thetr own natural way, and thetr steps are marked by the poverty of millions and tte wastage of national resources...
...Tte Later Party was defeated but bow much tbe Zinovieff letter contributed to tte defeat k uncertain...
...May Sta, Savasnaa, OAM Tkarwasy...
...The district Is largely an agricultural one, and the government's farm record proved a vulnerable point of attack by Tihrmli and Labor!tea...
...Comrade Lee Is a member of the Independent Labor Party, was graduated from a law course at Cambridge with high honors and is teaching school at this time...
...But on Sunday be had struck s bright patch...
...Another victory for the Liberals was hi Eddlsbury...
...whose services to the Labor Party cannot as praised too -highly, oonmants conversationally, and scrapes the edge of the table with his feet by my side...
...We were Just talking...
...Through the Labor victory at North Lanark, a new personality has entered British pontics...
...OaXMKNC...
...I told nta my Sabbath reading was restricted, and I ted come across nothing to make me merry...
...Disclosures Zinovieff Forgery Was Ordered By Tories Seen in Berlin Arrests...
...with a truly divine discontent...
...Oeorge tea announced tktwl towing tentative schedule of BSXM a*s«ay, Msg tra, wte3jteal|9B Sunday...
...Despite this handicap the Labor Party polled 1,300,000 more votes than it polled in 1923 but due to a eombtoation of Tories and Liberals the labor Party's representation In Parliament declined while the Tories obtained control...
...One of the Accused Previously Implicated in the Famous "Red Letter" Scandal of 1924 Whatever may be the final verdict regarding these revelations so far they confirm the opinion of many Laker Party men that British nflVtek wars involved in this dirty work Tbe disclosures come on tte eve of another British akctton sad tte light on tte fake-letter Industry discredits the Tories and enhances tte prestige of tte Labor Party in tte earning elections...
...MIDST tbe ringing of alarm bells, the (fin of scarecrow rattles, and tbe soothing gurgle of Liberal revivals, tbe miniature general election has ended...
...Official—You were connected witt him through your other forgeries...
...Gumanski will be remanded for indictment on a charge of espionage along wtth von Roesmann...
...ill 8. 191 street (phone Lombard 6144...
...They opened and photographed It before witnesses who signed a protocol attesting to the transaction...
...Spy—X cant say...
...Personality la to count more than ever In this election...
...T CAMS across a crushed die-hard Tbry friend on a recent Sunday afternoon, and he was laughing, end I could not understand why...
...It can be imagined how they will suffer In the country as a whole...
...Spy—He said Bebjardt (exiled son of a former -Russian Senator) and Gumanski wrote tbe letter to his apartment...
...The distress of these times Is only too apt to make us set up as standards of public and private expenditure the incomes of distressed miners, and of families in hardship...
...When we ted met, be preached sermons to me like tbe famous one I heard in Edinburgh tte otter Sunday, when we were assured that it Is tbe duty ot Christians of the Established Church to let things atone...
...Tte police ehun to have evidence showing that Gumanski was the active bead ef sa elaborate espionage organisation wtth headquarten In Berlin and maintaining branches in Paris, London and Central Buropean and Baltic rpointo, which, it k alleged, on various occasions have served tte Bnglish and Preach governments...
...of golf, but he was not playing...
...I asked about business, but got no key...
...Tbe present version of the origin ot tbe Zinovieff letter, which it win be recalled was supposed to have been communicated from the Communist International to tbe British Communist party, calling, among other things, for the organisation of Communist "cells' In tbe British Army, is based upon a conversation Gumanski is said to have bad with a friend...
...A copy of this was then sent to Eng...
...Is as much cruelty required to train politicians as, It Is alleged, is used In the training of performing animals...
...With Miss Lea in parliament, there are now ten women there...
...Today we have but one concern and one appeal to make to tte country...
...Tte taw wigs and the gentleman to eveMag dress who rule us from tte head ot tte takes seems to bass barn nairateg and declaring toe decrees ot progress since tte fast hour of Time was struck...
...The ejection results have been tucked away in minor pages, editorial writers have developed enthusiasm for the new General of the Salration Army, the "Times" publishes a comotifig selection of figures, showing how our vote is falling, the London Liberal paper, after assuring us...
...program for organising SocaUkdr^ and educational activities In Philsdekdat' Hillquit has not spoken in this etty te« more than a year and s large attendBSSK at tte dinner k assured him...
...Reservations are Ills par plate...
...Spy—He transmitted me a photograph through Meyer...
...Official—But you said Belgardt and Gumanski were in tbe British Intelligence service...
...The Zinovieff letter contributed to the-rupture between and tbe Soviet Government and now it appears that Vladimir Orloff and Alexander Gtimanski, members of the Berlin gang of forgers, faked tbe Borah and Zinovieff letters...
...The Tories retained their seats in Bath and in last Toxeth, but with little consolation...
...The Labor candidate was the naturalist and Socialist, G. G. Desmond, who put up a magnificent battle in a hard situation...
...Oeorge k sap operation with all those who bev* -tg$p unteered to assist in the arrangeaaaigW All those comrades, friends and sysasa^l tinkers, who can or will help to BUS*-' a aacooai of this tour are urged ton: communicate Immediately wtth "iiiansf George, who can be located by aoamavS tag him In care of tbe Soehukt Attsrt Committee, 31 Union Square, New *a«> Otty...
...Spy—Not only that, butOfficial—Why did Zemchusnikov ten you about where they worked...
...Oreenwood...
...Claessens to Make Tour Ofthe South George Announces Trfe Beginning May 2iwtW Eleven Meetings An...
...It will be remembered that the Labor Party was in power and in August of that year the Tory Opposition raised an Issue on the Government's dismissal of the indictment of lasses ^Tir^" a Communist, for sedition...
...In the 1034 election, the Conservatives had polled 13,880 votes to Labor's 11452...
...unhappy day, and X feet as though bare and there into say person area sons was drivtr - screws, sad another was < ng tris t \ to strangle me WiSi a of polite, but determined, pressure on my throat...
...At Bath, a conservative farming district, the Tory candidate polled 11,171 votes as compared with 16...
...There is gloom in the camp of the enemy...
...As the days advance we shall be more sod more impatient to get the thing over, and If the Government shows any disposition to finish saatojeei in a summary way, the Opposition will not demur...
...So I went my way, and, in due time, came here to the House of Commons...
...Ours is s fight of asm and women, not of money bags...
...Never see it," said L He tended me a copy, pointing to an article by tte bead of his Tory organisation...
...Nor, Indeed, is-it tbe best service we can give to the distressed ones...
...But we must retain as much of tte spirit as we can, and impart it to the youths and tte late comers, • • • And we must not fight on material things atone, however pressing they may be...
...Upon to arrival in London, but before delivery to the Soviet Mission, police Intercepted the letter...
...The liberal vote was so small its candidate bad to forfeit his *750 election deposit...
...And X appeal for tte old voluntary work...
...teg am atecs tte Vtood...
...t see It was s great relief to tbe House when s "laidie" shouted "rats'' across tbe floor...
...Is it because X lore tbe place, or because I bate it, because X am at borne in it, or because X have never felt otherwise than as a flab out of water in it...
...Outside, it is a grey...
...Visits must be made to every district, and all the material for elections (envelopes, photographs, blocks, etc...
...Both Desmond and Blanco-White, In the Holland constituency, will be back on the job for a still fight in the general elections...
...The Holland with Boston contest proved a surprising one...
...All arrangements will be eooptokf fj|p April 15th, when a complete •chaaA) will be announced, giving the time, wtetj* and other details of the meetings...
...But we must have the tacts at our fingers' ends, and be master of them...
...If the Tories fare so badly In their own territory...
...And beyond our duD damp, the world is stm greyer and more unhappy for thousands who shiver over duD grates sad scanty cupboards...
...We know that Both tte otter parties will move earth and ten to prevent s Later Government being formed under any circumstance...
...Officlal—How much were they paid for that tetter...
...Tbe* Labor Government appealed to tte voters and called for a general election on October 29...
...It would be wen If candidates paid a visit and addressed meetings throughout thetr areas, and laid down tte Issues of tbe fight...
...So far as these elections are concerned, it does not matter very much whether the Liberals in the new Parliament vote to put the Government out or in Oar Deponents arc finding* sooae con-4 eolation that oar vote si dropping- So tte old pot to stm caffinc tte new kettle black...
...Tte important thing, however, la that whatever happens, our people mast not be caught napping...
...Those who desire to atknwf are urged to make reservations earbv Dr...
...Whether tte election comes in May or Jane, we must be ready for May...
...Labor alone increased its vote raising its 1924 total of 3414 to 6,359...
...The birds are In a flutter for tbe migration time is st hand...
...Orloff, with his partner, Sumarakoff, whose arrest was brought about through their effort to sell tbe Senator Borah letter to Tbe New York Evening Post, are waiting trial on an indictment charging fraud, while Gumanski, OrlofTs chief lieutenant, is being held under a provisional order for deportation from Prussia...
...The Conservatives, who held the seat- previously, were at the bottom of the poll, receiving 8,257 votes, to the Liberals 13,000 and Labors 9,394...
...This dialogue, reproduced for whatever it may be worth, k from tte Soviet Review of October, 1937, published Just after tbe spy was shot...
...Above all, we must be diverted by nothing- from standing upon our own nor TimbucLo'^to'inspire or guide us.' We are evolutionists...
...The total vote in these five Tory districts was: Tory 48,492, Labor 37,864 and Liberals 36,678...
...Churchill, who must try to do something to help his Government, and also to regain soape of the ground he has tost In his own party on account of tte poor quality of the recent rpeechrr be has made, finance need not take many days...
...Churchill's tub-thumping rodomontade...
...Upon that, our candidates cannot afford that there should be any dubiety...
...Local Casakg k cooperating Wtth the arrangamatt committee...
...The Liberal vote dropped from 8,800 to 7455...
...put in tend...
...May 7th...
...beginning s]j| •JO pjji...
...Spy—He said they worked for tbe migHah...
...At the same time a code message was sent from London Informing the British secret service the time and routs of mailing...
...Some "in between" meetings nay *»** arranged, if any desire to secure Ctessi rede Claeseens tor afternoon mss9Sfflj or on dates not already liiilfjjiiST* taken...
...We must welcome tte attack upon public control and nationalisation which tbe Tory party has selected as its chief weapon in the coming conflict, and which has been the subject of Mr...
...May ftt, 11 illlaiMa, (jffl| Friday...
...which brought such a splendid victory practically paid for it* sett out of the collections taken at the enthusiastic mass meetings...
...He k at jagS teseutlve Secretary ot the Sockkstg] ty of New York City, and a adeaM tte Rand School...
...he finally asked...
...XI some people were greeted with s '"Biol old girl," their souk might be saved, even though, moved by their philanthropic hearts, they did vote on the ^d'r^ of Party Whips far hampering the development of Maternity and Child Welfare Centres...
...CtosassBt, repeatedly eteJkga the New Tort: Legislature, k known as a lecturer...
...his party in...
...very agent and committee must now begin to set the electoral machinery in order...
...Ckarlertoa...
...We must get at the hearts of the people as well as their pockets...
...The Tory vote In this district dropped from 18,450 to 8457...
...r Official—Did be say that-th\ British Intelligence service ordered that tetter from Belgardt and Gumanski...
...He menaced me with his paper, told aw to be off and do my worst upon htm...
...I shall write an article about you.' I said, and turn you, for once, into ax honest penny, and X shall call It Tte litagutm of Doom,' X shall set It Into stories of condemned men who went ^ns/trfwg to tte scaffold, because tragedy for them ted overleaped itself into laughter, and of sinners who went Hnghtng to tte devil...
...For over four years ago they have ruled, and they have been found oft—not only by farm-' era...
...Red" Letter Becoming a Boomerang Forgers Are Held on Charges of Drawing Up False Documents...
...Haven* you read It...
...May lath, Tampa- »k...
...Take Credit far Letter In the report of the conversation to the police Gumanski declared that he and Orloff had personally taken, a part in tte production of the Zinovieff letter, describing to detail how it was dons...
...Spy—Zemchuxnikov^wtid M pounds (about 1400...
...Sir Herbert Samuel quite clearly did not know what he meant when he told us at Newcastle that ale friends would not vote with the Labor Party to turn out tbe Government, but we know quite wen what was at tte back of his mind...
...This affair hi part of tbe gggfl era...
...It brought us down to common levels from tte Olympian heights of gentility, to which another had Just lifted us...
...FoDowtoK k sa extract from Druxhiiorsky's confession, made Just before be faced tbe firing squad:— Official—Did Zemchuxnlkov say he was the author of the Zinovieff tetter...
...Ik receipt there was witnessed by the plainclothes men...
...A return to this pea-green matting;, black green.-benches, brown Walls, and frosted glass roof, with to pattern of pink over blown roses always gives me tbe delusion that it was only yesterday when I was here last...
...assured me that after his pronouncement from headquarters he would total those who said that Labor's victory was certain, and showed signs of bursting out into s new eruption of guffaw...
...War - s long tune be had been dull and demure, as I am In s London fog...
...As the police have received it, Gumanski'* account is substantially as follows: Tte Zinovieff tetter was ordered by certain Hill Ml qnailns interested in secaring material which might eegsstamke tte Later Osveraoseat ansa.tte eve ef tte gas oral eatettoa at ISM...
...The material for our reply is both abundant and unanswerable, and our candidates would do well to collect it and use it liberally...
...We are to be very short of money, sod must make up for It by service and devotion...
...But it is really poor stuff upon which to feed the mind of the country and nil if...
...After ah eaclmnftnef ccoTespondsace between kwnlew and Pokroffsky the latter got in touch with Orloff sad Oumsaski and together with them worked out a rough draft lot tbe Zinovieff letter...
...I believe everybody has a good heart, st any rata originally, but gracious, what lay figures of plaster of Paris some dear creatures become when they-are under the impression that they belong, to tbe classes...
...that the Liberal candidate in every" election was doing marvellously well, with a touch of the heroic Horatio, puts the telescope to one of its many blind eyes when the disastrous results are displayed...
...By-Elections Heavy Blow At the Tories Jennie Lee, Age 24, Enters Parliament as LaboriteTories Lose Three Seats rBj « W«w tnl» CiiiMBlllO LONDON.—The miniature general election last week has thrown consternation into the Tory camp...
...where Lloyd George's candidate polled 10423 to the Tory's 9431 Labor did not name a candidate In this district...
...OrlofTs private sec* re tary, it k announced...
...They must now move from thetr entrenchments into tbe open country, and there we are anztous to meet them...
...Socialism is a gaunt skeleton, without the life and enthusiasm of its idealism...
...Our benches are ML The top of as beads et Mr...
...To the well-stocked Liberal treasury this means little...
...We want tte electors to give us a workable majority...
...Baldwin's deplorable mistakes in matters of fact, and of Mr...
...Baldwin's Newcastle speech was really .an attack upon Dominion policy, and the Dominions will, no doubt, resent it—some of their papers are doing so already...
...The original tetter was kept by tbe British secret service and a blank piece of paper was placed in tbe envelope which was then carried by a postman, accompanied by two plainclothes men to the Soviet Mission...
...Obamorer the box: Mr...
...jM SeuMtay, May Stt (events*) - -it .Ta.^ ' tfi^B Tmlir...
...arc new k*> 5 tag worked out by Mr...
...X atonal tees impelled to sat us> to tte fresh faced one sad plead with Mat to ton me of the ages be has est there, aad tte mighty revolution* be baa sees passrecording the results of tte division was tended to one pair of Whips aad not to tte otter...
...nn aad 1 nil mill foil of spirited work and t***"* drudgery...
...Those whose vision Is generous, are those whose demands come wiUKtte most Impelling force...
...We ana* have a free tend to consider what ted best be done to tte Interests of Labor under tte circumstances with which tte election wffl fate us...
...The Tories have lost three of their five seats, and retained the other two but with seriously cut majorities...
...Wt have made a mem M -things, it an silly that there is nothing for it but to laugh," and I left him laughing...
...That is what we have come to," be said...
...Sven to tbe nobility...
...Spy—Yee...
...Labor lost about 800 votes, while the Liberals gained some 8,000...
...Hillquit Will Speak At Philadelphia Banquef f«y a New I Mill CerrMy-nSsaO Philadelphia—The local iii|iiiteMaf°f of the Socialist Party has arranged hir* a banquet in April and engaged L*«nb" Hillquit of New York es the pi latkaT speaker...
...we an to make oar Society will be perfectly able to'tear cial panic...
...But already It is apparent that tbe disturbing- commotion of an election is moving within these walls...
...Labor's vote remained stationary, while the Liberals went from 4,163 votes to •400...
...Tbe calls from tbe constituencies lie thick upon our tables, and the appeals become more and mere urgent- They know that time becomes precious...
...It can easily get to contentious business through...
...X hope oar renrtldates will alao refuse shall agree to form a Ctovermnent after the election...
...Spy—Certainly...
...Official—Tbe Meyer who worked in tbe American Embassy...
...It Is the new M P., Miss Jennie Lee...
...Tte Opposition also made the treaty With Russia an Issue...
...of Ttetajgl tte teetatot FarkT*feauMtonaed^gf ^* Z*%m testes* ^T'speafcto^ May...
...In five Conaervattve strong-hold*, special elections haTe been held and have served as an indication of what may come in May with the general election...
Vol. 8 • March 1929 • No. 11
