The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-07

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ship of the old reformist unions and
the Indian Trade Union Congress,
but are building up new revolu-
tionary mass organizations (Girni
Hangar being case in point).
Of course, neither the British i'm
perialists nor the Anglo-1ndian
bourgeoisie can remain indifferent
to the present remarkable movement
among the workers at large. A
series of repressive measures have
been directed against the revolu-
tionary trade union movement and
although obviously reactionary and
anti-working class laws have been
enacted, the authorities are still dis
satisfied. Mass arrests of revolu-
tionary leaders have now been in
stituted in an effort to sap the
strength of the Left Wing trade
union movement. But this will prove
of no avail, for new leaders are now
being put forward by the workers
themselves to lead the struggle, to
take the place of their arrested COM
rades. The present general strike
of the textile workers of Bombay
commenced after many of the reyo-
lutionary leaders had been arrested.
We see that the movement has not
been crippled since new militant
leaders were put forward by the
masses to take their place.
Seeing that their agents--the So
cial-reformists, headed by JOSH
are losing their hold on the labor
movement, the Indian bourgeoisie
are now endeavoring to make use of
other agents, somewhat different
from the former. Efforts are now
being made to get a footing in the
labor movement through the LEFT"
nationalists, who are simply mis-
leading the masses with their LEFT"
phraseology. Having capitulated to
British imperialism by renouncing
the demand for political independ-
ence, the Indian bourgeoisie now
seeks to get control of the labor
movement by means of the "Inde-
pendence League" organized by a
small, but it is alleged, radical
group, of the Indian bourgeoisie
with the permission and approval of
big capital in India. This is merely
new move to dupe the workers and
peasants who are utterly disguised
with the Indian bourgeoisie's capitu-
lation to British imperialism. While
the National Congress, the organ of
the Indian bourgeoisie, headed by
Nehru Senior, renounces independ-
ence for India, Nehru junior is busy
ganizing an Independence
League" urging complete indepen-
dence for India! These LEFT" ma
tionalists or National
have now been definitely instructed
by the Indian bourgeoisie to get con-
troll of the labor movement--to take
the place of the ocial-reformists
who have lost out with the workers.
All the new developments in the
Indian labor movement found due re-
Election in the last Indian Trade
Union Congress held in December,
1928. The old reformist leaders,
the agents of British Imperialism,
who zealously urged affiliation TO
the Amsterdam International, were
no longer the predominant factor at
this congress. Their proposal to
affiliate to Amsterdam was rejected.
However, although the Left Wing
elements made good showing, they
were not yet strong enough to get
all their resolutions carried. Sup
ported by the Social-Reformists, the
LEFT" nationalists, led by the
younger Nehru, utilized the situa-
ton and got control of the congress
proceedings. He was elected chair
man of the Trade Union Congress
for the term of the present year.
There is no doubt at all that the
new acknowledgements agents of the
bourgeoisie in the ranks of the
working class will be exposed by the
workers tn mselves just as
thoroughly as the ocial-reformists
were. So intensified has the class
struggle become in India today, that
nothing can stay the growth of the
revolutionary movement among the
Indian workers. The heroic struggle
of the Bombay textile workers bears
witness to the growth of the class.
consciousness of Indian workers, it
bears witness to their determination