The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-28

than any previous government since
the war began. Bombay strikers were
refused the right to form trade un-
ion, under the labor government Pc
iiticals were jailed for trying to form
a labor party. Hundreds of strikers
were shot and Jailed for strikin.
when their pay was held back eigh
weeks and they were starving, as hap
pened in the Cawnpore and Bombay
mills. Police spies were the sole wit
nesses at the Communist Cawnpor,
trial, where the defendants were SEN
fenced to four years at hard labor
for doing what is perfectly legal in
England a labor party. In
Beghar, Ill poor peasants were ar
rested and complete press censor
ship resulted, with the labor govern
ment absolutely silent until exposed
DOYS and girls were murdered at
- Jaito in February, while Sidney
Webb expounded British "Kultur:"
He believed that the British race had
its mission in the world" Richards
(under secy. for India) said the Sikh
jathas "were disposed of peacefully"
and it took tory to bring out that
they were peacefully passed into
JAIL" Mr.. Richards made no answer.
The grim massacre of Jaito and the
" peasants sentenced to death in
Chauri-Chaura, the shooting of un.
armed workers from armored cars in
Bombay, and the Cawnpore Commun.
list trial which illegalized workers
and peasants party--all these were
MaeDonald'sA measures to insure the
peaceful imposition Of big wage cut
by the employers of India. And this
with wages at ten to twenty cents a
day, while profits averaged So per
cent Indian Year Book: profit works
out at 60 per cent?. Otherwise the
Indian question was in suspense un-
der the labor government.
A Egypt and the Sudan. Along
with MacDonald's taking the bis
cult, one might mention this fact:
Macdonald continued the govern
ment subsidy to Asquith's Sudan
Plantations Syndicate, which makes
only 95 per cent profit; and by a
strange coincident, Macdonald found
his government supported by AS
quith. / don't say that there is any
relation between these facts. /
simply mention them together. Brit.
ish contractors were making fortunes
building dams and railroads and TAX
ing the land away from the Sudanese
peasants. Military planes shot Su-
danese and Egyptians because Mac
Donald refused to return the Sudan to
Egypt (which was coerced also by
British control of the upper Nile).
Labor's premier continued to violate
article 5 Of the Anglo-Egyptian agree
ment. Serfdom and forced labor
made British treatment Of Sudan
worse than under any previous re-
gime.
Egypt told the same story. Perse-
cution OF Communists, and leaders of
the Confederation OF Labor, police
frame-ups, the proposition to send
10000 troops to independent Egypt"
the absolute refusal to carry out prom
ises made by some sixty premiers
since Gladstone to grant Egypt indie
pendence-this was only a small part
OF MacDonalds record. In the Social
ist Review for Feb, 1922, one may
read some of the bunk" Macdonald
used to pour forth on Egypt: Here,
II the pledged word Of England means
anything, we went for purely temper
airy purposes the prime minis
ter anxious to convince his
alarmed reactionary colleagues that
he had not altogether retained radi
cal faith, decided TO put his mailed
boot down upon Egypt and
wrecked all hopes of a settlement"