The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-14
Blood of Indian Workers

weeks fighting between Indian textile and railway shop
workers and the British and their skebreakng allies Bonn
bay has been turned into SHAMELESS At the time it
has become fortified camp witnessing the greatest single
concentration of British forces the Far East since the
Not only Bombay in the west is shambes. In the
south Colombo capital of the island province of Ceylon
British power struck against the general teup of the habor
and communications works with repeated smashing blows
Behind Colombo stretch for miles inland the immense
tea plantations of Sir Thomas Lpton savedrver yachts
and boon companion of the American capitalists their
sporve The hundreds of thousands of wretched
TAMIL teasaves existing just above the point where
and children sarve constitute which stirred
the British authorities to instant action in Ceyon Tremend
the force of the workers resistance in Colombo
to the British troops and police blow after blow by
whemng forces drowned the Ceyonese strike and resistance
in the blood of thousands At least 5000 wounded in
the three days fighting The number of the dead will
be known many having died with mysterious rapdity in
British jals and hospitals.
And in the hundreds of miles between Colombo and
Bombay and the hundreds miles between Bombay and
Peshawar and Calcutta deep rumblngs of the Indian
recho the struggle of their embated brothers against the
armed British power.
The simultaneous protest of the northern Indian
against British activities Afghansan and along the border
is only protest against the interference of British i'm
peraism in that country 1t is also protest against the
crushing force of British Imperialism in India itself and is
recognized by the British government which doing
thing in its power to stamp out such agitation.
For British India does not only comprise Great Britans
most precarous colony It is Great Britans Asac base
in its war plans against the Union Socialist Soviet Re-
pubics
The bloody struggle of the Indian in the streets
of Bombay and Colombo not only struggle to win their
strikes and repus the massed strength of British
ment in these eners 1t is not only in its larger
ncpient struggle overthrow British imperialism in India
The struggle of the Indian also intimately bound
up with the defense of the first workers and peasants
public which for eleven years has lighted them the north
beacon in their struggle
The workers and peasants who fell fighting in the
streets of Colombo and Bombay nterposng living
wall between the British efforts against the Soviet Union
and the i. S. S. R.
Neither is British imperialism fighting the workers in
Bombay alone when its tanks roll daily thru the streets when
planes rushed from other eastern points to this city and
there undertaken the greatest concentration OF artillery IN
India far having been amassed the newspapers
frankly admit than would even be to hold strikers
at bay.
British Imperialism welcomes this to concentrate
its forces in India under of stamping out the strike in
Bombay The government, whose agents have for
year been actively preparing to invade the Soviet Union thru
Afghanstan by the overthrow Of the modernist Amanuah
welcomes this opportunity concentrate in the great western
port of Bombay it's thousands of electives for later dispersal
among the northwestern frontier provinces.
Martial law and street fighting, that amounts to
massacre already crushing the fierce struggle of the strk
The instruments of British erocity will be shipped
for work against the workers and peasants
who have thrown off their capitalist government.
Consistently the Indian leaders who have posed
leaders, Chta Rnjan Das Mahama Ghand Mott Lal Nehru
and their k have betrayed attempt of the Indian
masses to overthrow British imperialism, to drive their
Angondian oppressors into the Indian Ocean. They
still attempting to play their role of betrayal But the Indian
themselves astr The unrest within the great
country is onous knows better than the British
authorities At periods of greater and greater frequency it
bursts forth into such bloody upheava the heroic
Colombo and Bombay struggles Then in terror lest the
whole country be engufed in vast united of
revolt British imperialism rushes UP its troops its
its planes its killers has happened in Bombay and
Ceylon.
But the bloody carnage against the Indian workers ended
the troops to be dispatched upon another the old
road down which the eyes of British Imperialism have always
wandered in the past and which they seek with
eroctythe road that leads thru the Khyber Pass, the
northern gateway of India into the Soviet Union.
But between the British and their plans of invasion stand
the millions of the constantly aggressive and awakened
Indian workers and peasants and the Red Army.
And behind the Red Army the Union Socialist So