The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06
(By the Pan-Pacific Trade Union
Secretariat)


Secretariat)
SHANGHAI (By Mail). The
Right Wing bourgeois lawyers and
reactionaries who have fastened
themselves to the Indian Trade
Unions, have now split the ALL
India Trade Union Congress.
The split was well prepared as
seen by the tactics of those who
seeded; because the Executive
Council of the AIT.U.C. adopted
several resolutions, including affilia-
ton to the P.P.T.U.S., that amounted
to break with the past reformist
policy and a reputation of those
advocates of class peace, rationaliza-
ton at the expense of the workers,
compromise with British imperial
ism, accepting slave status with
in the Empire in return for few
crumbs from the imperialist table
and places in the administrative ma
chine for suppressing the Indian
masses.
The Executive Council meeting at
Nagpur previous to the full Con-
gress session indicated the time
had come to put an end to policy
which turned the &c meetings into
gatherings for the purpose of
allocating each other excursions to
Europe, such as happened at the dis
graceful meeting held last April
In addition to agreeing to affiliate
to the PPTUS, which was with
drawn as a tactical concession to
maintain unity in open Congress,
in spite of the disruptive tactics, the
&c decided to fight for complete in
dependence for India and for the
establishment of a Workers. Repub-
lie; to affiliate to the League
Against Imperialism; to recognize
the Workers Welfare League of
India (London).
1t also refused to attend the
Asiatic Labor Conference, rejected
attendances at the League of Ma
tions International Labor Office
conferences which implies rejection
Of the international Federation Of
Trade Unions, decided to boycott the
Whitley Commission of Inquiry into
labor conditions in India which was
set up by the British government;
condemned the Nehru Report that
accepted a Dominion Status; and
refused to endorse a round table
conference as suggested by the
British Labor Government endorsed
by the Right wing reactionaries.
On all these main issues the dele
gates at the Nagpur Congress
endorsed the Left wing decisions OF
the &c and thus we hope has wiped
out the reformist policy forever
within the All-India Trade Union
Congress.
AS in most colonial countries the
bourgeois intellectuals have natu-
rally seized upon the labor move
ment as a means of obtaining po-
litical prestige and jobs. This is
only another reflex of the terrible
poverty and exploitation of the In
dian masses, who are denied an ele-
mentary education.
This bourgeois element is com
posed mostly of briefless lawyers
or runabouts who exist also from
direct exploitation INDUCED in by
their favored parents or relatives
the majority of whom have no reaI
workingclass feeling or conception
However, there are exceptions who
honestly strive to serve the workers
interests and who gradually become
imbued with the workingclass spirit
Many of the latter honestly sup.
ported the above decisions. But the
culprits in the former group, in.
Guiding N. M. JOSH, B. A., M. L. A.
Diwan Chamanlal, M. L. A., S. c
JOSH, M. L. c., Mr.. Fuley M. L. C
V. V. Girl, SILVA Rao, ETC., not only
left the Congress rather than sub.
nit to workingclass decisions which
are truly aimed at their class in.
terests, but to demonstrate they re.
main loyal supporters of the British
imperialists as well as native ex-
ploiters they split the All-India T.
U. C. and have formed an opposition
Federation of Trade Unions.
They applied their impressive
tactics when they withdrew from