The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05
By L. BURNS.

IN March 20, year transpired since the
thirty-two Indian proletaran revolution
aries, the leaders of the revolutionary work
ers' movement of India were arrested and
imprisoned in Meerut. They have been charged
by the Anglo-lndian authorities with con-
spring "to overthrow the sovereignty of His
Majesty the King in British India with view
to the establishment of Socialist State under
the dictatorship of the proletariat and the
preme command of the Communist Interna-
tional." These men are charged with endeav-
curing to achieve their aims by organizing
Communist Party, Worker-Peasant Parties
and Revolutionary Trade Union Organizations
in India with view to embittering relations
between labor and capital, by melting them
to strikes and by publishing papers and using
every other means of propaganda and agita-
ton. Although the Meerut Prisoners were
arrested a year ago, their case has only re-
Gently been submitted to the High Court where
it was heard with jurors, despite the continued
protests of labor organizations in every part
of the world A lot of cooked up evidence
was used at the trial. About 400 witnesses,
some coming even from Europe were called,
among whom there many provocateurs
and spies.
Significance of Trinl
nficance of the Meerut trial Like "a sin. q
it reflects the whole political situation in
India today, the intensificaton of the class
struggle, the advance of Communist ideas,
the progress of the revolutionary workers
movement, the growing role of the working
class in the national emancipatOry move
ment, the reactionary policy of MacDonalds
imperialist government, the treachery of the
native bourgeoisie the strengthening united
front between the workers of Great Britain
and India and many other developments.
The Meerut trial was framed up" by the
British authorities to stem the remarkable
development of the labor movement which
started in India in 1927
Ever since that year the whole of India has
been swept again and again by mass strikes.
During this struggle the Left Revolutionary
wing, which had been formed before this time,
became crystallized for the working class
trusted it with the leadership of the struggle
and it quickly extended it's influence among
the workers at large. Powerful revolutionary
trade unions were beginning to be formed in
the country. The working class was beginning
to take active part in political life, demanding
not only complete independence for India, but
the establishment of a Soviet Republic. The
revolutionary emancipatory movement direct
ly it was headed by the workers., began to de-
velop rapidly and become more sharper. Bru-
tally exploited by imperialism and the feudal
landowners, the Indian peasantry slowly be-
gan to raise their heads
Alarmed at the growing threat of the revo-
luton, the British mperiasts modified all
their forces to fight the revolutionary work
ers' movement. Their aim was to smash the
workers movement before help could arrive
from the great reserves of the Indian peas
antry. Their first move was therefore 70
round up" the finest leaders Of the workee
and in this fashion "behead" the movement.
Ties of Labor Solidarity.
Among the arrested men-who belong for
the most part to the Communist Party or
the Worker-Peasant Parties--you will find
such popular individuals, we'll known to all
workers, like DANCE, one of the leaders of the
revolutionary union of the Bombay textile
workers, the leaders of several revolutionary