The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
By G. SAFAROV.

THE heroic six months struggle of 100000
Bombay textile workers, their retreat with
out the least sign of collapse or weakness, the
attraction of new working class fighters into
the strike movement at Jamshedpur and Cal
cutta; the maturing of a strike movement
among the railway workers; the swift political
development of the working masses; Girny
Hangar, which is not. to be shattered by any
persecution or laws against ''hooliganism";
the demonstration of 100000 in Calcutta at
the funeral of the young revolutionary Jatin-
dranath Das, who died during hunger strike
in prison; the incessant students strikes,
which break out in place after place; the end
less meetings and demonstrations under the
slogans of "Hurrah for the revolution" and
down with Imperialism is the picture
of today in the India which is living tomorrow.
In this situation there are many known
features which make "incomprehensible" India
akin to Russia on the eve of the 1905 revolu-
ton.
Fearfully and with warning glances in the
direction of the British Government the lib
eral bourgeoisie are noting that the country
has not known such an agitation since 1921
in other words, since India passed through her
first revolutionary stage The liberal bour-
geoisie are by no means enraptured with this
growing revolutionary RISE which may inter-
1eTe WIFI InelF JfanSdcClOnS WIN
British imperialism. They are trying in all
ways to hide the fact that the chief motive
power of the revolutionary rise is now the In
dian proletariat, which was not the case in
1919-1922. But meantime the strike statistics
prove this irrefutably.
1926 1927 1928
No. of strikes 129 129 203
No of strikers 10000 $4,000 5O6,851
No. of lost
working days 100000 2,019OOO 31,647,4O4
LIST quarter End quarter
1929 1928 1929 1928
strikes As So AT 50
strikers 1885 $3.50 100000 29o,654
No. of lost
working
days S20,215 1,065,083 100000 1909, 506
In the third quarter of 1929 100000 workers
participated in the jute mills strike, and the
number of working days lost reached the fig
ure of 1,725,000.
India has now grown accustomed to revolu-
tionary slogans and demonstrations, the influ-
ence of the working class on the intermediate
petty bourgeois strata of the towns has grown
extraordinarily, to the very broadcast masses
the working class has become the outpost of
the revolutionary struggle against the British
Government. India is now passing through
period of a revolutionary rise, and the repre-
sentatives of that rise are the working class on
the hand and the city petty bourgeois
strata with the student youth at their head on
the other. Meantime the Indian bourgeosie
has closer than ever before to treach-
erous transaction with the British bourgeosie,
and is exerting all its strength to accomplish
this transaction as swiftly possible in order
to avert further revolutionary disturbances. On
the instructions of the Macdonald Cabinet the
Vceroy of India has promised India dominion
status" and Ghandi and Co. are already going
into raptures
"The proetariat struggle, the bourgeosie
steal into power" That feminist formula
could not be improved upon characterize
tion of the present situation in India. 1t goes
without saying that tire Indian bourgeosie
cannot under any circumstances count on re-
ceiving power from the hands of British imper-
ialism. 1t is question Of attracting individual
representatives or certain strata into the ranks
of the British bureaucracy of a certain dis
tribution of petty official positions and pro