The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-10-09

for the last 700 years, it is a more '
ignominOus record than ours. He
SAYS, "yOu have always had a foreign
monarch. always an invader coming
from outside to rule YOU" Since my
childhood day, when l was studying
English history l have known that
ENGLAND so far never has had an
English monarch. She has always
had a foreign invader. Never has
her monarchy been a home grown
product. Monarchy is a sort of
family privilege. A few families sup
pIv monarch to Europe just as few |
biscuit factories supply biscuits all
over Europe. We sent an English |
Prince to Norway to be called King
HaakOn.
The Chairman: We are dealing with
the affairs of Indian and not with
those of Europe or Norway. The
Noble Lord, the Under-Secretary CT
Estate for India cannot be held respon-
sible for the Government of Norway.
Mr.. Saklatvala: No; but the I'm
der-Secretarv totted out a theory
which is a school-bOyish theory, and
I am simply showing the want OF
! 1ogic of the position which he took
m in reproaching India as country
which was always governed by for
eion monarch, and thereby trying to
r Establish the right of himself and his
I family and future generations TO go
I en- governing India. May point GU out
: that monarchs may be foreign! we
: do not quarrel with an Engnsn1man
r who went to India and settled there
d and became a king. We shall become
! reconciled with him, but a foreign
l, monarch never meant foreign ruler
: An Arab, Turk, Mongol or Chl'
e nese invader, or anybody may nave
% come in India and may have himself
20 become an Indianized monarch, an'
IS lived in the country and become :;
II ruler of the country. But never dlC
If the people of China, Turkey, Contra
D Asia, Persia, or Greece, remaining u
he their own homes, call themselves tn
~ rulers of India, and continue to sen
Oh out their advisers to rule.
IL It was entirely a futile argument
an and if YOU 90 back 200 years you
education. sanitation, and internal al
rangements with bishops burning PEE
id, ME. and with persecution and rellg
he Gus terrorism, you had nothing muC
cd to be proud of. You had your strui
rs. giles, and we have ours. and sha
IN Still have them. / put it to the Mob
le4 Lord as well as to his own part
in not to take the narrow-minded schoo
Dth bovish view of life when talking
W. the biggest affairs of mankind. VIII
-as is the good of entering into such +
hy ordinations which lead nowhere. v
tic want to put it to you that you a
ms talking in contradictory terms. Som
on times one thing is right and at a
put other moment it is wrong. If you
1ey eide to go to India and revolution
les. the lives of the Eastern people y
ey. do not talk of castles, you do not ia
ate of Hindu and Mohammedan ideas,
ted of the suppressed classes. When
the is YOUR intention to start cotton 1;
YER tories, iute factories, steel works,
DeO- cheering works, post offices, RI
an ways and telegraphs, you do not S
the eve cannot do it because India
ting cut up by caste, or because OF HlI
in and Mohammedan hatreds, or beca
1t there are suppressed classes" "
tern Just the same case, comfort and c
mir fidence here, you start factor
ern- mines, railroads and dockyards thu
S of Nothing stands in your way then.
when we tell you, "See here, you
lilo so much a head here"-not that
III pay willingly, for it was extorted
&c the workers fighting inch by
w against you-and we say to you
H., if YOU apply these modern ms
nrS ments of treating human life,
IL, e.. must also apply other conditions,
u lI0G1 say, eve must never try such exp
tbis ments.
end We are told by the man in
HUI street how well the British merchi
and who go out to India take care of
same poor people and are always anx
You to grant them their rights. Yet
thew years ago, when our Indian fri'
hut wanted to hold a Trade Union
,oun- gress in the mining area, to draw
{ is attention of the whole country to
In most direOus and most brutal ca
SUBJ tiOns prevailing in the Bengal mi
nten- the Merchants Association, the
s it Opean MineOwners' Association a
India the Government to stop the
citi- gress. They demanded the pres
, full of a Gurka regiment. Machine
facts. and soldiers, with bayOnets re
ideas were in mining areas. That is the
4 vet they played in granting the right
M of the workers. When these tactics
' see not succeed, and when the Inc
,rsian who devoted themselves to wOrl
other behalf of the miners, showed
their determination and were backed u
,efore 10000 to $4,000 miners laying {
their tools and attending the
gress, the Chairman of the Mi
u IN Association wrote a letter of ape
FOWL and presented himself and said
LUZ would now agree. l appeal to
even 5, British friends that if they are
alKa n proud of being Britishers, for
put II ness sake let them remain Britt
hslDte when they go abroad. If. they
such to take credit for everything
a 70 somebody else does and refuse to
Ineil discredit for everything they ne
leu " to do, the least can say is that
M VIA are a very funny people Blu
wIaV member that all other people i
si y world are not so funny; they Sc
y any through and through.
y '' nv India's InfantiIe Mortality.
,fs IN Take another matter-the inf
y, M will death rate. My Hon. Friend
: +b;c Bombay spoke in magniloquent
~ DO of the 100000 pounds to be
which upon the homes of the worker
Iaca it were so, l would give credit
Englishman or Scotsman who
angry But it is not so. 1t is a case o
Der Tor tracts and contractors. They
Sc ne handling this 100000
do scheme. remember that ov'