The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-25
"Waging War Against the King"

area thousand miles wide. Warrants and searches are
everywhere being carried out Raids and arrests center es
pecay about Bombay Poona Calcutta Alahabad Lucknow
and Lahore against this conspiracy ito deprive the king OF
sovereignty in British India
Characteristic the charge leveed against Chauduri
Dharamvr Singh member of the United Provinces Legis
atve Council who arrested at Lucknow under Section
121 of the Indian Penal Code setting forth that he was wag
ing war against the King
It is very clear that the blow is aimed directly at the
Communist leadership of the growing actions in India
The list of those arrested roll call of the spokesman
for the trade and the Workers and Peasants Party
who displaced the compromising and traorreformst
and nationalist officials who have joined with the employers
and the attempted resistance against the
steadily mounting revolutionary this proletarian
battle front in Asia The youth organization has also been
singled out for special persecution
The growing mitancy of the masses attesed to by
the fact that the general action of the central government
in carrying its attack may be met by general strike
of the whole working class Protest strikes of considerable
proportions have already broken out IN numerous places
notably Tata mills at Dadar north of Bombay where
10000 workers quit their jobs and in Bombay itself.
The situation grows increasingly throughout India
the workers beginning to feel their and to it.
thus entering phase of the revolution in India in which
the Indian workers following the path of their Chinese
comrades prong by their mistakes. The understand bet
the beraas of the Indian bourgee and its surrender
to British imperialism. The workers. is shown by the
protest strikes greet the leadership of the Communist Party
that struggles for the closest unity of the industrial pro
taTiat with the peasantry.
Labor felt its strength this past year at Colombo where
for nearly week the government compelled to abdcae
its functions The police and the troops were helpless before
the strikers and the demonstrations organized in their
support
Labor mounted the barbados at Bombay leaving $50
dead upon this heroic field of action indicating the revou
tonary maturity of the entire situation Throughout the
try The Bombay textile workers fought brilliantly for five
months against further cutting of their starvation wages
ignoring the demand to accept cut o help the
premier national industry out of depression
Practically all of the industries in India have been af
fcted during the acute situation that has developed during
the past year. The principal events of this period include
the great railway strikes lasting for months and involving
hundreds of thousands of workers and frequently resulting
pitched battles between the strikers and the sodery
porting the police the strikes in the Tata Iron and Steel
of Jemshedpur and the lockout nearly 100000
tile workers in Bombay for five months.
Although the workers lost oftener than they won in
these nnumerae battles these valiant efforts developed the
fighting power of the working Glass; increased the will to
fight liberated the trade union movement from the agents
of the national bourgeosie defeated dscredted the
formst leaders, witnessed the of revolutionary leaders
from the ranks of the proetarat brought about the political
independence of the proeariat the struggle for national
freedom and laid the basis for the rapid growth of the nu
ence of the Communists and workers close to them.
In the present situation the hue and is for the blood
of the Communists Both British imperialists and Indian
capitalists terrified before the power and will of the
dian proetarat fight Reformist leaders unite with
poisoned in deporng the fact that the workers have
One of the reformis labor leaders, F. j. Gnwalla writ
in the organ of the Bombay mill owners the India Daily
Mail December 90 declared These strikes Con the railways
IN the iron and steel industry and in Bombay the
of the policy of direct action advocated by the Com
munists.'
B. SILVA Rao, proege of the British Independent Labor
Party entrusted with the organization India of branch
of the Labor Bureau of the League of Nations conesses
that 1T is Disgusting the fact that Communist ee-
mens gaining influence and aim to capture the move
men The Indian Trade Union Congress being exploited
in the of the workers by few interested groups
must be radically reorganzed to prevent the from
going into wrong hands,"
The walls of these reformss sound very much like the
lamens of the reactonary leadership of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor and their socialist and other reormst al
lies who witness the swing to the left of labor in American
industry.
1t is for American workers to remember that not only
British pounds sterling but also American dollars on an in
creasng SCALE being invested in India. The cause of
British Imperialism and Indian capitalism therefore becomes
directly the cause of Yankee Imperialism American labor
must follow closely the rapid and epoch-makng developments
in India in China and must stir themselves to aid their
brothers. The of Indian labor the cause of Amer