The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08

do not get sufficient information,
or protest as we should do against
the virtual slave conditions existing
in the colonies today. That the
Amsterdam international should
publish such a note is simply betray
ing the cause of the native workers;
the impression is created that things
are not at all bad in the colonies, as
is sometimes made out, and that
press reports about the vile condi-
tions of native workers are not to
be trusted.
By Guessing over the inhuman ex-
ploitation of the native population
and by taking the trouble to give
wide publicity to notice of this
description, Amsterdam is simply
out to prevent the workers from
getting any inkling of the true
state of affairs in Africa.
To countermine the treacherous
activities of the reformists, who are
doing their very best to aid and
support the exploiters, native work
ers must now help us to break down
the barriers that encircle them. We
would take this opportunity to urge
all Negro workers to send along let
tiers on. their life and work to the
editor of this paper. We know that
in present-day conditions CORE
spondence is no easy thing and in-
wolves even a certain amount of
risk, but we feel sure that in spite
of that our Negro comrades will
find ways and means to establish
contact with us and that they will
help US to expose to the workers in
every part of the world the char
acter of the imperialists and their
reformist lackeys.
In its resolutions the Fourth RILU
Congress characterized the Amster-
dam International as ian organic
part of the bourgeois-capitalist sys-
tenn and it's role in the colonial
countries as weapon of imperialist
capitalism" struggling against the
national revolutionary movement
and the labor movement in the
colonial and semi-colonial countries.
The recent events in the labor
movement in all parts Of the world
have brought into greater relief the
treacherous role of the Amsterdam
International.
Bombay Textile Workers Heroic
Strike. The workers of India are
struggling heroically today against
their oppressors-the British i'm
perialists. The Indian workers are
being shot down, arrested, and per-
secuted, but in spite of this and in
spite of the treachery of their re-
formist leaders, who are actively
aiding the capitalists to smash the
labor movement of India, the work
ingmen and working women are con-
tinuing the fight. The Bombay tex
tile workers are fighting the colonial
exploiters and the Indian bourgeoisie
with every means in their power.
The resistance they have put up has
been an example to all. Led by the
leaders of the Left Wing, the tex
tile workers for several years past
have put up stubborn fight. Last
year, in 1928, the textile workers
, strike lasted six months, and since
they did not get all their demands
conceded, they Immediately COM
menced to prepare themselves for a
new fight. In spite of the fact that
the Indian government arrested
practically all the members of the
Executive of Girni Hangar (the
revolutionary Textile Workers
Union), the rank and file workers
elected in their place were by no
means inundated, and after the
preparatory work, general strike
was announced. Large sections of
the workers Immediately joined the
strike movement, and today there
are already 10000 workers involved.
But this is only start, for the
movement is growing and spreading
to new districts.
Amsterdam Hastens to Defend the
Bourgeoisie. Of course, the Indian
capitalists and their executive COM
mittee-the Indian Government-are
doing their best to smash the work
ers. Defenseless strikers are being
shot down. Racial and religious
prejudices are being stirred up. In
a word, everything is being done to
demoralize the workers ranks. Now
the Amsterdam International is los
ing no time to help their masters.
Unable to influence the workers of
India directly, the Amsterdamites
are circulating fake information
about the strike to mislead the in
ternational labor movement and to
keep it from aiding the strikers
either morally or financially. In
their "Press Reports" of May 14th,
the Amsterdamites are endeavoring
to represent this strike as a Com
munist move. Revealing their AFRO
giant chauvinistic and imperialistic
character, the Amsterdamites write
that Indian. workers, traditionally
prone to passive resistance, can be