The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19
JAIL SECRETARY
FOR LEAFLET ON
CARTER MURDER
G a n dhi Negotiations
With Ruler Proven

SAINTS Party of Bengal, and signeC
by the party, in protest at The
murder of six carriers and wound
ing of about a hundred more OF
April 1. The carriers struck in Cal
cutta against British regulations in
tended to hamper them and throw
business to capitalistic trucking
companies. They were shot down
sn Harrison Road, which they hat
barricaded with their overturned
carts. Hamil was given months
rigorous Imprisonment for issuing
the leaflet. 1t says in part:
British imperialism has again
shown the way it is going to dea
with the toiling masses of India
The streets of Calcutta have agar
been Redeemed with the blood of In
dian workers.
What Concern!
"Workers and citizens of Calcutta
how many more lessons do you
need? British imperialism pretends
that it is protecting the buffaloes'
(buffaloes pull the carts.-Ed.)
British imperialism and the British
jute mill owners recently increased
the working hours of the jute work
ers, women and children included
from Sd hours to so, and at the
same time decreased their wages
Jute workers are dying from starv-
alton, misery and terrible conditions
of life. Boys and girls are dying
by the hundreds in the jute indus
try. British imperialism exploits
and starves the workers and pea
SAINTS of India. Is it not clear,
therefore, that it is sheer hypocrisy
of Humanitarian" British imperial
ism when it speaks of protection of
buffaloes
workers of Calcutta! The strug-
gle for Independence is spreading
all over the country. In every part
of the country workers have begun
to take energetic part and lead the
struggle. The congress leaders like
Gandhi, Nehru, etc, are trying to
avoid the mass struggle on a coun-
try wide scale and are trying to
prevent active revolution of the In
dian toiling masses.
Shows Up Gandhi.
"Look here in Calcutta. What
are the congress leaders doing to
organize the struggle of workers
and peasants? Are they willing
to organize a general strike in the
jute industry against British i'm
perialism? Are they willing to help
to organize general strike on In
dian railways and thus give a
crushing blow to British imperial
ism? Are they willing to appeal to
the peasants of Bengal to stop pay
ing rent to the zamindars and the
British government and take con-
troll of the land in their hands :?
Nothing of the kind. The congress
leaders in Bengal as elsewhere are
afraid of a genuine mass revolu-
tionary struggle and stand in fact
for small bourgeois reforms and
nothing else.
workers of Bengal! You must
take the lead of the struggle in
your own hands and organize gen.
eral strike against British imper-
ialism."
Bread, Land and Power"
Then follows an appeal to the
honest nationalists and the students
to support the workers, and the
leaflet ends with these slogans:
'Long live immediate general
strike.
Build strike committees in mills,
workshops and colleges.
Demonstrate against imperialist
terror.
"Raise the banner of struggle for
freedom, bread, land and power.
"Long live the workers and pea
SAINTS republic.
"Down with the vacillation of the
congress leaders.
"Long live the revolution of the
Indian toiling masses"
Treachery Progressing.
LONDON, June Is. - George
Slocombe, unofficial ambassador
of Macdonald" has cabled the Daily
Worker confirming the report that
a British agent, Sir Prabhasankar
Pattani is in conference with Gand-
hi over the details of his proposed
attempt to call off the indepen-
dence movements far as he still
has any influence with the move
ment.
There is every reason to believe
that this act by Gandhi, for which
he has already one precedent, has
been delayed thus far only because
it would expose Gandhi hopelessly
to the Indian masses. Slocombe ex-
plains that with the rainy season
on, the government believes the
movement is weakened, and that
Gandhi, "in response to generous
gesture, including amnesty" will
agree to try to stop the movement.
1t is reported that II cultivators
in a village near Delhi have been
arrested for refusing to pay taxes.
Reports show the land tax strike
and boycott of British goods
spreading rapidly through India.