The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-13
By Fred Ellis

into unions, and strikes are illegal. Opium and
alcohol are forced upon the people under state
control in order to increase the revenues of
the mperialist government The dividends
paid by the "Fontaine" Dsteries have risen
steadily during the last ten years from 40 to
200 per cent. The shares in the industrial
undertakings in which French capitalists have
invested some three milliard Francs and which
are exploited by means of cheap and forced
labor are now worth from to 20 times their
nominal value. The budget for naval and
military purposes and for the mperialist secret
service constitutes as in India, more than 60
per cent of the total budget.
Against this abdominable exploitation, this
slow determination of whole population by
Imperialism, the masses of IndoChina are now
in revolt One strike has followed upon another
in the course of the last year. Colleges and
schools led by the students of the Petrusky
College have organized imposing anti-imperial-
ist demonstrations in Saigon and other towns.
These were suppressed by the armed police
forces and large number of students were ar
rested Hundreds of national revolutionaries
and militant workers are in prison undergoing
heavy and brutal sentences. "Conspiracies,"
secret organizations and secret presses are be-
ing discovered almost daily.
The cowardly murder of the young revolu-
tionary Nguyen ST Sach by a French agent
in the prison of Lao-Bao-an unhealthy district
to which political prisoners are deported and
where Nguyen ST Sach was imprisoned after
having been sentenced in the monster trial
against the Revolutionary Annamte Youth
has just caused revolt among the prisoners.
All these strikes demonstrations and revolts of
the workers, peasants and the youth have now
eliminated in the revolutionary outbreak of the
Indo-C Chinese soldiers.
These events in Indo- China and the rapid
development of the revolutionary movement are
of great significance. Tonking is on the
horde of China. With the help of Annamite
and Indian regiments France and Great Brit
ain protected their concessions in China against
the Chinese revolutionary movement The revo-
lutionary spirit which prevails among the Indo-
Chinese troops will spread among the Anna
mite soldiers in China and thus facilitate the
struggle of the militant Chinese workers and
peasants.
The movement for national independence in
the Asiatic countries has entered upon new
phase. The masses in 1ndo-China have awaken
ed and are leading an uncompromising struggle
for the overthrow of imperialism, while the
bourgeoisie, frightened by the revolutionary
enthusiasm of the masses wio are threatening
their very existence, is preparing to capitulate.
And in this collaboration with the imperial
lists, the feuda and bourgeois elements in the
oppressed countries are receiving the full sup
port of the social democratic parties and the
reformst trade unions tits the social demo-
Gratis who demand that their governments make
concessions to the natioral bourgeoisie in order
that their imperialist masters may continue to
retain their hold on the colonies. It was Va
renne. the social democrat governor general OF
Indo- China who advocated these concessions and
at the same time used al his power to suppress
the working masses of Ind. China.
The League Against imperialism and for
National independence warns tic masses in
Indo-China against the fuud1l and bourgeois
elements, who, under the pretext.ef "nationa
program are preparing to raise Joint
French-Indo-C Chinese capitalist regime on the
backs of the workers and peasants. The League
Against Imperialism calls upon all anti-im-
perialist organizations and elem. hts in 1ndo-
China to unite in conjunction with the rnovc-
ments in Indonesia, China, India snd the Philip
pines to conduct an uncompromising struggle