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

verse religions, including MOhamme- q
dams. Jews, Greek Church people, anc a
others. The BOlsheviks have been
able to give them education in five
wears, yet in the Cars days these
people were treated with the same
lcaIlOusness and brutal cruelty as that {
with which you have been treating the
Indian peasant for $50 years. In hVe
wears after the Communist mterna-
tiOnal revolution in Russia, 90 per
cent of the agricultural population
have received education and you nave
TODAY tho testimony of half dozen
British men and women that IN spite
Iof the bIOOdcurdling articles in your
newspapers, the Russians have done
their lob well. Why play dOg-m-
/, the-manger part? l appeal to TINS
: Committee to allow a commission OF |
6 Indians to 90 to Russia to study and
to find what the British have failed to
discOver-the way of granting to the
DeOnIe of political franchise and edu-
: cation. scientific laboratories, instltu-
y tiOns. health. homes. i compensation
u and allowances for industrial work
, Il ers. If Russia, a country of agrlcm-
X turists, could find the way out, how
y is II that YOU with your wOrld-prO-
claimed clevcrness as administrators
o have failed to find it, why not be hon
Is est and step aside and let us do the
. lob. and we shall do it on an interna-
~ tiOnaI Communist basis? Why are
Z YOU turned inside out at the very
VI thought of Communist propaganda IN
9 India? If as an industrial nation
Ie with your Western mind you nave
81 failed to discover a humanitarian
= cure for the ills of an agricultural
II population in an Eastern country,
1s why play Og-in-the-manger! why
II not permit the Russian nation, which
~ has actually discovered the way out
"a of the darkness, to come and helI
al you? :,
a. The Noble Lord delivered himself
bo on a previous occasion of his views
nd on Russian propaganda. Today W.
have to review his actions during TIT
!. last IL months with regard to thu
nt' Cawnpore trails. Why does he con
'ur slider himself entitled to suppress
ar Communist propaganda? He say
70 =! other propaganda or subversive pro
81 paganda. The Hon. Member for Dun
-" dee (Mr. Scrymgeour) is carrying G
Sn prohibitiOnist propaganda. This
laiI propaganda to subvert the drlnhn
ple system, and if his propaganda wer
n.y. not subversive it would not be wort
'o OF anything. Every propaganda, If 1t
!. u u effective and sincere, means som'
lld' thing new, and if those who carry
ne on have the courage of their convl
W. tions and want to put what they lie
are to be right in the place of the o
LIe system, that propaganda must
az az subversive. You are talking to
?e 10th century in the terms of IL
~ a', century lawyers when you refer
vi. subversive propaganda, seditIon a.
IAN revolution. They are the birthrlgh
, u - of modern nations, and they are I
e. - birthrights of the Indians Just
LAY much as they were your blrthrlgh
!i for one, will not yield to terrOrls
a ssll I am going to carry on subversl
propaganda, revolutionary propagS
d Is da, Communist propaganda with
Hluu assistance of the Russian, and
14I!sS Chinese and the Germans and
WIN British. I am not alone in that. I
con- Government has kept quiet about
res great Indian railway strike.
mere. Government says all kinds of don
but about the masters being kind, but
say Government of India forgets t
you they themselves are the largest
q Dy ployers of labor in the world, tax
i LI their postmen, public men, railw
ChdC men, miners in Government mil
sCru- workers in Government factories,
you so on, and 1 put it quite detinlt
, you that taking a comparison with
-perl- other country, you pay the most
cradle wage, and give the most n
the cradle conditions, and deprive
hants population which works for you
f the for the prosperity of our great /
xiOus pire of their rights and inf1ict
two them political indignity and hun
lends alton worse than can be found In
Con- part of Asia. You could impl
" the things if you meant to do so, but
o the would not be able to stay there a
cOndi- the improvements had taken pl
mines, You know it and I do. But the
Eur ternational spirit will throw you
asked er the precipice, if you do not ret
Con- gracefully. | am not talking
esence about nv Russian comrades,
guns about my British comrades. l k
ready, the difficulties of the Front b
e part among my British comrades.
hts of must treat them as section al
cs did But I think even the Noble
adams knows that the British Governnlel
rk on treating with the most inhuman,
their lous oppression the railway VOL
up by and imposing on them a negatic'
down their rights to such an extent
Con- the general council of the t
liners union movement in this country
pOlOgy telegraphed 100 pounds assistance
d ne I touch on one more point, and
nay is the death rate to which the
re 50 Member for Dundee (Mr. Johns
good referred. He asked the Commit,
Ilshers look at other reports besides the
"aht to which he referred in regard t
t sna1 fantile death rate. You say you
. tahe to India because the Rajputs
! sT killing their daughters, and you
y Iney ed to save human life; because
Ut re- tees were being burnt, and you
IN tne ed to save human life, but l tell
zee you YOU are there to destroy human
1t may not be your intention, but
y. is part of the game, and wlthc
lfantlle YOU cannot play the game.
from Hon. Members to analyze the
terms tile death rate a little more cl
spent The rate mentioned by my
RS. Ii Friend for the City of Bombay
to the All per thousand. That is the
dld II. al rate, though it has been 50
OF con- one year. Even this, however,
ey are mistaken figure. The City of Be
pound IS a rich city. My own comm
YER my =; o,a of thn richest comml