The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02
The Reign of Violence OF the
Macdonald Govt in India

railway workers of the G. I. P. Railway, are
continually confronted in their fight by the
police of the Labor" Government.
And what is the H. International doing?
Nothing, not even raising the slightest pro-
test! 1t seems a mockery when one reads
that the members of this same International
who are bludgeoning and imprisoning the
striking workers in India, at the same time
propose to the trade unions of these workers
that they enter the Amsterdam International.
If the Indian workers still need any enlighten-
ment regarding the true character of the Am
sterdam International, Macdonald is doing his
best to provide them with this enlightenment.
MacDonald's violent methods have naturally
brought about serious changes in the Indian
mass movement itself. In face of this policy
of the strong hand, the futility of Gandhi's
tactics Of non-violence becomes obvious to the
masses. MacDonald's provocations, which
Gandhi continually called upon the Indian
masses to meet with passive resistance, are
now going beyond the patience of these very
long suffering Indian masses The movement
shows very clear symptoms that it is getting
beyond the control of Mahatma Gandh
Gandhi himself seems to regard the mass
movement at the present moment as so
threatening that he is beginning to adopt a
radical tone, to speak of the possibility of
bloodshed. Still more remarkable, however, is
the fact that the movement is not only con-
centrated in the districts of Ahmedabad which
are under the influence of Gandhi, but that
the masses, and particularly the working
masses, in other remote districts of India are
spontaneously taking up the anti-imperialist
fight by acts of sabotage mass strikes and
mass demonstrations.
Macdonald in his Indian policy, is the ex-
Of Rriticb finopcio1 oil bo fr;o ND
and helper of the reactionary clique of colonial
officials, who live like parasites on the Indian
masses, the protector of that backward despot-
ism which still today holds down India. There
could be no more reactionary united front
than this common block of all the forces of
reaction and exploitation in India.
But the Indian masses cannot and will not
retreat; MacDonald's policy, however, leaves
no doubt that the eloquent pacifist of the H.
International will not shrink from bloody mas
sacres, and that in fact he is actively prepar-
ing for this, as is shown by the concentration
of reliable" Mohammedan regiments in the
disaffected districts.
In such circumstances the result of the fight
will to great extent depend upon whether
the British working class will succeed in stay
ing the arm of their Labor" Government,
whether they will permit the revolutionary
movement in India to be crushed, which would
result in strengthening of British reaction
and would have fatal effects for the British
proletariat
India is the test of Macdonald" Mac
Donald is passing his test by the Tory exam
iners as brilliantly as he has done in the case
of Egypt Africa, Palestine and the whole of
the vast Empire which he is administering in
the interest of the city money-bags. But India
is also test for the British proletariat and
for the c. P. of Great Britain. The fight of
the Indian people, the fight of the Indian
proletariat against Macdonald, against imper-
ialism, must not remain isolated Against
the reactionary block there must be set up the
united front of the enslaved Indian masses
with the fighting European proletariat