The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18
FURTHER INVESTIGATION
OF FIGHT IN INDIA

perialisni in the most sensitive, the North West
Frontier.
The Sikhs.
The Sikh exsoldiers of the Army have been
very active among the soldiers and the peas
antry throughout the Punjab, under the guild
ance of the Workers and Peasants Party in
Amritsar consisting mostly of Sikhs. In Cal
cutta and in Rangoon the Sikhs have played
very prominent part in the anti-imperialst
demonstrations and in the attacks on the po-
lice The Sikh ex-soldiers in Bengal have
organization and in conjunction with the ter
rorists, they organized the attack on the ar
senal at Chttagong some four weeks ago.
They are reported to have carried off several
motor lorry loads of arms and ammunitions
for distribution among the peasants of East
ern Bengal.
Owing to a rumor that an Indian who had
been run over by tram had been murdered
by the police, tremendous demonstration in
Bombay took place in which 100000 partici-
pated Another rumor that the director of
the Bank of India in Bombay had taken part
in the police attack on the headquarters of
the Indian National Congress resulted in thou
sands storming the bank, all business was
closed, the Stock Exchange suspended its ac
tivities and very severe conflict ensued be-
tween the masses and the police when the
latter searched the National Congress build
ing, confiscated literature, arrested its pres-
dent, K. F. hartman, who is also president of
the Bombay Presidency Youth League and
closed the Congress building.
The movement is spreading in the Madras
Presidency which was comparatively quiet
when the campaign started. There have been
mass demonstrations following one upon an
other in the city of Madras and in the latest
demonstration the police attacks were met not
only with usual showers of stones which have
characterized demonstrations in all parts Of
India, but actually with bombs which wounded
several police constables. There have also been
similar demonstrations in Masulipatam on the
eastern coast. Among the railway and tex
tile workers of Madras there is a growing
tendency to join the General Strike that is
being prepared by the revolutionary unions
Intense excitement has been caused by the
sentence of one years imprisonment of Mrs.
Lakshm Patthi of Madras, of Mrs. Sarojini
Naidu in Bombay, and of Karmala Dew,
prominent woman member of the Youth
League who has received six months impris-
onment
Support General Strike.
An event of considerable Importance is the
mass meetings of Mohammedans that have
been held in Bombay and Madras, the one in
support of the Arab General Strike and for
Arab independence, the other against Mac
leaders of the Khalifat Committee, such as
Mohammed Ali and Shaukat Ali, who for their
own personal ends are against the ndepen-
dence movement in India are unable to pre-
vent the expression of an anti-imperialist tenn
per among the Muslin masses. While adj
vising them not to take part in the movement
in India they modified mass meeting at
tended by 100000 Muslims in Bombay to de-
mand Arab independence and to protest
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Government in Palestine and other Arab coun-
tries The meeting for Egypt in Madras was
| charged by the police with batons, the masses
replying by throwing bombs on the police in
| juring several constables.
The movement for the non-payment of taxes
and of land revenue is being organized mainly
by the Congress Committees the province of
Gujrat where the land revenue is paid direct
to the government being at present the main
center of the campaign.
The Trade Union Congress has called on all
workers to declare a General Strike and the
Workers and Peasants Party has issued an
appeal to the peasants to form committees,
appropriate the landlords, join the workers
and overthrow imperialism and feudalism
The Situation in Northwest India.
According to latest reports, the situation in
! the North West Provinces of India is caus-
ing increasing concern to the British authori
ties. The insurgents, with the leader of the
Tusangsai tribe, Hadshi, at their head, are
capturing further fortified positions in the
mountains thirty miles from Peshawar and do
not think of retreating. The question of rid
ding the Peshawar district of insurgents is
source of considerable worry to the British
authorities, as the refusal of Hadshi to obey
! the ultimatum of the British supreme Com
mand is greatly damaging the prestige of
| Great Britain in the whole of the frontier
] districts
Every morning and evening British aircraft
carry out demonstrations over. Hadshi's head
quarters in Ghaland as we'll as over the for
tifications of the village of Malta Mukhal
Khel, where the forces of Hadshi's son, Bad
! Shah Gul, are concentrated. Volunteers and
redshirts peasant partisan troops) are guard
ing Hadshi's son and supplying the village
| with food. The British aircraft fired upon
! by the insurgents. The Redshirts continu-
ing to operate along the Swat and kabul
rivers, to cut the telegraph wires, etc.
The Fights in Rangoon.
The events in Rangoon Further India) are
of special importance in view of the revolu-
tionary movement in India proper.
The immediate cause of the events was the
ending of the dock workers strike, in the
course of which the employers and the author
tiles did everything in order, for their own
purposes, to stir up racial hatred between the
workers and the strkebreakers. After the
conclusion of the strike, native strikebreakers
from Burma attacked workers belonging to