The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-20
TEA PLANTATION
VILLAGERS FIRE:
ON The POLICE
Bombs in 5 Cities May
Show Street Fighting

Capitalist press reports from In
dia always stating less than the
facts because of the censorship tell
of a spread of the armed revolt
among the peasants of the North
west and northern frontiers and Of
the continuation of the tax strike
in many parts of India.
A dispatch giving almost no de-
tails states that the day before yes
terday bombs were thrown in five
cities: Lahore, Lyallpur, Gujran-
wala, Amritsar and Sheikpura. This
may be cautious way of admitting
that there has been street fighting
in these places, all in northern In
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From southern India, a Madras
dispatch tells of the arrest of 80
nationalists.
Rains Don't Help Imperialists.
The British government expected
relief from the heavy Monsoon rainy
season (Which has not set in, and
based their policy in large measure
on this, but have been disappointed.
The big and rather harmless non
violent demonstrations were stopped,
to be sure, but the movement of the
workers and peasants goes on in
other and more effective forms.
The rebel chieftain, the Hail OF
Turangzai is still encamped not far
from Peshawar, and more tribes
have Joined him.
Yesterday a bombing expedition
by the British air force killed men,
women and children in the villages
around Gandera, and according to
the British, scattered large force
of Afridi tribesmen gathered there"
But many similar bombing expedi-
tons have not dislodged the armed
body of the Hail at Shabkadur.
The Dharar tribe in the Gujerat
has revolted, and an armed force of
500 has captured villages in the
Kaira district.
Threat to Afghanistan.
The press service of the League
Against Imperialism, headquarters
in Berlin, tells of the British rapidly
fortifying the Afghan frontier, in
vading and flooding with troops the
formerly independent buffer state Of
Waziristan, and of Afghan uneasi-
ness about it all. 1t is obvious that
the British government would like to
occupy Afghanistan itself as base
for an attack on the Soviet Union,
but the Afghan army, a good one,
is being modified along the frontier
too.
The same press service says:
In Coimbatore, an important in
dustrial and plantation area, the vii!
layers are reported as having open.
ed fire on the police. The planta,
tons in Coimbatore formed mostly
of tea estates are owned exclusively
by British capitalists and the work
ers on these plantations count among
the worst paid and the most oppres-
sed in India. These workers are re
cruited from the peasantry round
about.
Peasants Militant.
Wholesale arrests of the peas
ants of Hissar for participation in
the civil disobedience campaign are
reported. A Free Press of India
message adds that despite the reiga
of terror in Hissar the peasants
have declared that they would re
main 'undeterred by threats and any
violence by landlords or their
agents.
Workers Indignant.
During the last G. l. P. Railway
strike, the workers had to fight not
only the hostility of the nationalists
and the reformists in the trade union
movement, but also the opposition OF
some of their own ranks. The strike
has resulted in strengthening the
class consciousness of the workers
which is also being expressed by
their denunciation of class enemies
in their own ranks. The Jubbulpore
correspondent of the 'Amrita Bazaar
Patrika' reports, under date April
Fl, that at a demonstration held al
this place, the railway workers got
three effigies of the workers who
were against the strike made, and
after carrying them in procession
through the streets, struck them
with clubs and finally burnt them
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