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The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
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Max Shachtman lectures at Maplewood on the British Labor Party's integrity amid railwaymen strike, tracing working class history and criticizing leaders as imperialists with minimal left-wing concessions.
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"The strike of the railwaymen is one of the critical tests of the working class integrity of the newly formed British Labor Party ministry under Ramsay MacDonald," said Max Shachtman, editor of The Young Worker, in a lecture before the Maplewood branch of the Young Workers League.
Shachtman pointed out the rise of the revolutionary British working class thru the Chartist movement, into a peaceful period of co-operatives, and then the emergence into independent political action. In analyzing the leadership of the British Labor Party the speaker showed that the assumption of power by the party was no real danger to the ruling class of Great Britain.
"Henderson, Thomas and Clynes are imperialists who have promised to maintain the British Empire in all its glory," Shachtman said, "and the rest of the cabinet is not very much better. The only concession made to the left wingers of the Party from the Clyde was the giving of the ministry of health--a very innocuous portfolio--to John Wheatley."
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Max Shachtman lectures on the railwaymen strike as a test of the British Labor Party's integrity under Ramsay MacDonald, tracing working class rise from Chartist movement through co-operatives to political action, and analyzes leadership as no threat to ruling class, with imperialists like Henderson, Thomas, and Clynes, and minor concession to left-winger John Wheatley in health ministry.