The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-21
BY V. CHATTOPADHYAYA.

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show that the movement of revolt is rapidly
spreading and deepening.
1t is now admitted that the "riots' in
Peshawar were not confined to the conflicts
between the revolutionaries among the civil
population and the Government troops. The
regiments sent to fight the "rebels," although
mainly British included battalion of Indian
troops the 2nd 11Sth Royal Carnival Rifles,
whose conduct is described in the official Gov
eminent conlmunique as unsatisfactory" for
which reason the battalion has been sent to
Abbotabad where there will be IAN enquiry
The Garhwalis like the Gurkhas, are hillmen
who are splendid soldiers and have been hith-
erto regarded as among the best and most
reliable fighters of the Imperalist Army
Their Unsatisfactory conduct signifies that
they were in sympathy with the revolution
aries and refused to fire upon the workers and
peasants; and the enquiry" that is being held
regarding their conduct is a court martial that
will probably result in heavy sentences. But
the fact that Indian soldiers refuse to fire
upon those classes of the population that are
actively engaged in the anti-imperalst revolt
is an indirect proof of the feeling that pre-
walls among the peasantry, particularly in the
Puniab. 1t is therefore probable that the
events in Peshawar will be repeated in other
military centers Of the North where the troops
are even more intimately related to the disaf-
fected peasant population.
That the attacks by the revoutionaries
should be directed primarily against the police
and the munition depots is obvious. The In
dian police, doubly corrupt and brutal under
the order of their British chiefs, is the most
visible and provoking aspect of imperialist OPP
preston, while muntion depots are source
both of the material used by the police and
the military to shoot down the workers, as
we'll as of the material needed in the fight by
the workers against the oppressors. After
the stormng of the arsenal at Chittagong,
there have been many attacks on depots, par
ticularly in Bengal, where there are secret or
CARNATIONS that have specialized in this
branch of activity. The most recent the
surprise attack made at 2:3O in the morning
of April 29th on the British sentries guarding
the gates of the Cossipore Artillery Magazine
at Barrackpore ten miles from Calcutta.
Police Raids
Police raids, followed by dozens of arrests,
are taking place every day. But the real sit
uation in Calcutta is indicated by the extra
ordinary solidarity manifested by all categories
of workers with the carriers. These had peace
fully set up their carts as barricades on April
LIST as a protest against the new government
order prohibiting them from driving their
carts along the streets between the hours of
u noon and p m. These are the most i'm
portant business hours in Calcutta, and the
10000 carriers were faced with unemployment
and starvation, the new order being a move
to stimulate increased motor traffic land
therefore motor lorry import) and consump-
ton of the petrol of the Burma Oil Company.
The carriers engaged in a Satyagraha were
fired upon by the police six being killed and
over 100 wounded. They nevertheless reap
peared the next day with their carts during
the forbidden hours, and a number were ar
rested The police raided the offices of the
Carriers Union, the Bengal Jute Workers
Union, the Workers & Peasants Party. The
secretaries of the first two organizations were
arrested. There have been mass protest meet
ings in Calcutta jointly organized by the three
organizations just mentioned and by the Tex
tile Workers Union, the National Dockers'
Union the Burrabazar Labor Union, the Young
Comrades League and a number Of other
Labor Unions The case against the carriers
has just ended in three Of the union officials
and carter being sentenced to one years
rigorous Imprisonment each
In South India, the stronghold of Hindu
orthodoxy and of social reformsm, the extern
sion of the movement has been less rapid than
in the North But even here the situation is
developing. In Madras a demonstration of
thousands Of workers and students last week
was IJIeu upon Dy lHt ponce anu large
number were killed. This has led to further
street fighting between the masses and the
police. In the suppression of the revolution
airy movement among the railway and port
workers of Madras, the Government is re-
ceivng valuable assistance from the reformist
theosophical trade union leader, SILVA Rao,
one Of the most active agents of the imper-
ialist Labor Party and of Amsterdam in India.
But the textile workers have not allowed them
selves to be influenced by his intrigues, and a
strike has just broken out.
MacDonald's Guns and Bombs.
In addition to using its machine guns and
its bombing planes, the Macdonald Govern
ment has revived the Press Law of 1910 (Which
repealed in 1929. Under that claw
every newspaper had to deposit a certain Sc
curity which was confiscated if the paper was
guilty Of publishing "sedtious" matter. The
new Ordinance goes further and makes both
the u deposited as well as the printing
presses bic to confscation, and empowers
every y rstrate to decide whether any par
ticular ticle is sedtious and justifes the
confisc of the newspapers property In
Delhi, t. seat of the Viceroy's government
certain papers were called upon to furnish
securities the same evening or to suspend pub
LEGATION These papers were the "Hindustan
Times" the Tel and the "Ariun" leach to
deposit G375), the "Riyasat" 5000 and the
"Millat" (&150). The first three are national
list papers standing for national independence
but regarded as organs of the Arya Samaj
and therefore as Mohammedan. The