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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18
Bv HARRISON GEORGE

THOUSANDS of miles of sea and
land divide them, but between the
six workers facing the electric chair
in Atlanta, Georgia, for "inciting
Instruction" and 80 workers facing
death at Meerut, India, for "conspir-
ing to deprive His British Majesty,
George the Fifth, of sovereignty
over India"-is a bond woven in the
blood of the world proletariat.
King Capital and King George!
In Atlanta, for organizing the work
ers, black and white, into fighting
trade unions under the red banner
of the Communist Party. In Meerut,
India, for organizing Hindu and
Moslem into revolutionary trade
unions. In Atlanta, the six include
both black and white workers. In
Meerut, both white and brown, Brit
ish and Indian, are among the thir-
ty-two.
So long as King Capital could
keep the white and Negro worker
of Georgia and all the South pitted
against one another, the bosses
could exploit both at starvation
wages and speed them to death with
the stretch-out. So long as the
British rulers of India could keep
Hindu and Moslem workers fight
ing each other, British imperialism
and native capitalism too, could
drink the blood of the 300,000,00C
workers and peasants of India.
India is the keystone of British
imperialism. The South was sup.
posed to be the "strikeless section
of the U.S.A. The revolutionary
workers of America and of India
have challenged these monstruou'
monarchs. The prisoners of Atlanta
and Meerut are the pioneers of the
advancing proletariat which has
sounded the bugle that shall never
call retreat!
Why Are They Poor?
Supposed wise guys say that thu
Indians are poor because the coun
try is thickly populated. Why, thel
are there poor and hungry people
in Georgia, with 50 people PEE
square mile, when India has II
per square mile. And why isn't thu
people of England starved worst
than those of India? since England
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18
Crisis Hits Sweden; Workers Pay

STOCKHOLM UPS)The occasion of the present government
Soedn the fact that the Sod parliament rejected
proposal the duties grain
The lying the crisis the difficulties
Soden the result of the world
capitalists IN Sedn attempting like their colleagues
place the burden of the crisis the shoulders of the or
ing Intensified naturalization dismssas
The best of accomplishing this h the
a cleft Oing" government.
The recently bought By the matchng Kreuger
Idb0r
fact the Keger belongs the extreme right aing of Swedish
their the social democrats haze done everything
ih the aes of their definite develop
the right taken place the defeat
maintained Nth government
against hch the social democrats haze been supposed to fight In
the revolutionary elements being expelled
the paper industry being iocyed into
defeat The proposal of the leader of the bankrupt right cng
the admiral ndustrias Lndnan the King Sedm
the social oh the therefore quite
logical
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18

Recall Gandhi's words during the
World War: 81 would make India
offer all her able-bodied sons as a
sacrifice to the Empire at this crit
ical moment" and see the exact
parallel in Roxas' speech (Insular
Committee, Jan. Is, 1930): "We or
ganized regiment of $4,000 Flip
mos and offered it to the President
of the United States for actual
service. Our loyalty and grateful
ness can not be doubted" Roxas,
Osmena, Guevara, GabaIdon and
Aguinaldo in the Philippines repre-
sents the same class as Gandhi,
Nehru, Petal & Co. represent in In
dia--the native bourgeois who profit
from the imperialist exploitation of
the great mass of workers and pea
SAINTS.
There is a great similarity be-
tween the status of the Philippines,
as an American colony, and India
as British colony. The Filipino
masses have been fed with "promi-
SEES" quite as literally as have the
Indian workers and peasants. AS in
India, in the Philippines it is the
native capitalists and large land
owners who have worked together
with the imperialist exploiters to
Illustrate the revolutionary strug-
giles of the masses. AS in India,
the prototypes of Gandhi do not
want independence but a form of
dominion status within the empire,
while the masses fight for nothing
short of immediate, absolute and
unconditional independence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18

has $50 people per square mile!
The Indian masses are poor be-
cause they are robbed both by
British imperiaIists and Indian cap
italists. The people Of Georgia are
poor because they are robbed by
capitalists.
1923 marked the emergence Of the
Indian working class on to the field
of revolutionary struggle, the most
important event of that year being
the great Bombay textile strike Of
100000 workers who built up their
Girni Hangar (Red Flag Union.
1929 marked the beginning of the
revolutionary struggle of the work
ers of the South in the U.S.A., with
the battles of Gastonia textile work
ers, that of Elizabethtown, the
street-car strike of New Orleans.
The National Textile Workers Union
was born.
King and Boss.
In India, the Vice-King Vice
Roy), Lord Irwin, declares by royal
order that his will is law. He bans
strikes. In the South of the U.S.A.,
the Chamber of Commerce and the
mill owners flaunt even their own
laws, to crush strikes. They shoot
down workers like Ella May), they
lynch them legally as in Gastonia
or illegally, as in Sherman, Texas.
In the South, the American Fed
Grafton of Labor head, Green, sells
out the street-car strike of New
Orleans. N. M. JOSH of India tried
the same with the Bombay textile
strike.
In India, the holy faker Gandhi
comes before the masses in the dis
guise of a friend and says: Follow
me against British Imperialism.
But he leads them into a fight fol
salt instead of higher wages anc
he tells them that under no cir.
cumstances must they defend them.
selves.
In Elizabethtown, the "progres
sive" Music group Of the A. F. Of
L. appeared as the friends" Of
the workers and said: "Follow us
we are against the mill owners.
But they led the workers into al
agreement" to accept a wage Gu
and betrayed them to be shot dowi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18
From Meerut to Atlanta

by the mill bosses and sheriffs, tell
ing them: "You must not defend
yourselves"
The Indian workers rallied in
enormous strike struggles, in tex
tiles, in steel mills, on the railways.
They fight the mighty British EN-
pire, as a strike for higher wages
is a blow at British imperialism.
So in March 1929, thirty-two were
rounded up in all India, the best
and bravest of the leaders, and
taken to Meerut for trial. The Brit
ish Labor" government came to
power, and it continues their per-
secution for the interest of British
imperialism.
Whit the Gastonia verdict darken-
ing Carolina, six more workers are
seized at Atlanta, Georgia. And A.
f. of L. officials on the Grand Jury
in the prosecutors office demand
they be sent to death in the electric
chair. They, some of them, are &C
cused of the Crime" of asking VIM.
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor" questionsl
Labor" Persecutes Workers.
IN Meerut, through the months,
the trial" drags on. 1t is a long,
an endless affair, since March 1929.
MacDonald's labor" government is
the prosecutor, as the A. F. Of L.
is the prosecutor at Atlanta. In
Meerut, the 80 lie in fetid cells,
deprived of every human comfort,
chained among filth. In Atlanta,
the six are subject to petty persecu-
tions, searched, watched, threatened,
and beaten.
There are many deeper reasons
why American workers should I'M
derstand the Indian revolution and
the leaders of it who lie in Jail at
Meerut. There are other reasons
why American workers should de-
fend the 80 prisoners of Meerut
fully as firmly as they defend the
six at Atlanta. But these words
are written to bring clearly to the
minds of the American working
class that Meerut and Atlanta are
not far apart. That the class strug-
gle is worldwide, and that the sol
idarity of the workers must be as
wide as the world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18

stonites find their point of unity
with the fake "lefts," the Trotsky-
lists. Trotsky and his followers more
and more discard their cleft" masks
and show their true opportunist
faces. On China, where the revolu-
ton is in much higher stage of
development than India, Trotsky
also issues the slogan of Constituent
Assembly, putting it up against the
slogan of "Soviets, as organs of
power of the democratic dictator
ship of workers and peasants"
Trotsky descends to such depths of
vulgarism as to declare of the sup
pressed masses of China that when
they awaken they strive to express
their strength in numbers in politics
through the medium of the universal
suffrage" On India the Trotskyists
are discreetly vague as yet, al
though clearly indicating that they
apply all their formulate for China
also to India.
The programmatic unity of right
and left opportunists shows itself
| always when they touch the pro-
blems Of colonial revolutions, and
is crystallized also in organizational
connections with identical groups OF
renegades in those countries. Thus
in China, the close collaboration of
the right-winger Roy, Chen Tu-chou
is also at the same time hailed by
Trotsky himself as disciple. In
Mexico, the government employees
headed by Diego Rivera, who as
between the Communist Party and
their government salaries, chose
the latter, supports and is supported
by both Cannon and Lovestone. Both
groups have faith in nothing but
the bourgeoisie in the colonial coun-
tries, and both groups make them
selves a tail to the political kite of
the bourgeoisie.
The Trotskyites cover up their
own surrender to the bourgeoisie in
India and China with Every Left
phrases about the dictatorship of
the proletariat," violent opposition
to the slogan democratic dictator
ship of workers and peasants" and
then practically replace both with
the open bourgeois slogan of "Con-
stituent Assembly"
The First Task of China India.
Revolution in India and China
today has as it's first task the COM
pletion of the bourgeois-democratic
revolution, that is, to carry out in
India and China those measures
which were the characteristic feat
ures of the transition from feudal-
ism to capitalism - national indie
pendence, distribution of the land
among the peasants, breaking the
power of feudal elements, establish
ment of certain popular rights of
organization and individual liber-
ties.
But this "bourgeois-democratic
revolution" in India and China can
not be carried through by the bour-
geoisie. That class no longer has
the possibility of carrying out an
Independent line, which would throw
it into war against the mighty inn
perialist powers (struggle for ma
tional INDEPENDENCE, against .he
| IL l. Il +
rian revolution, distribution of the
land), and force it to lean upon the
awakening working class and pea.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18
By HARRY CANNES.

THE closest point of Wall Streets
empire to India is the Philippines
Every struggle against imperialism
in the Orient, whether in India
China, the Dutch East Indies OF
Indo-China, finds an enthusiastic
response among the great majority
of the 100000 Filipinos, enslaved
by American imperialism. This
unity of interest of the workers and
peasants of India and the Philip
pines is we'll known to the American
bosses.
"When / was in the Dutch East
Indies in 1926" said Nicholas
Roosevelt, correspondent of the
New York Times, and a Wall
Street spokesman, testifying be-
fore the Senate Insular Commit
tee (Feb. II, 1880 l discussed
this point Independence of the
Philippines) at considerable
length with various people, and l
have since talked it over with
people familiar with conditions
in India and the Malay States,
and Korea, and elsewhere; and it
seems to be the general impress
sion that the granting of indie
pendence to the Philippines II
might say, even talking of grant
ing independence to the Philip
pines - has its repercussions all
through these other territories"
What repercussions, then, must
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18
OppOrtunists and India

santry. For the colonial bourgeoisie,
it is more profitable to come to
terms with the imperialists, and
with the landlords and feudalists,
for the joint exploitation of the
workers and peasants. And this is
what the colonial bourgeoisie al
ways does. It fights against i'm
perialism only for better terms of
surrender, and always is careful not
to arouse the workers and peasants
to struggle. Only the workingclass
and peasanrty can and will carry
out to a conclusion the fight for
national independence and for the
distribution of the land-that is,
carry out the bourgeois-democratic
revolution.
The Constituent Assembly is q
form of bourgeois class rule. In a
period when the bourgeoisie is a
revolutionary class, when it is a
rising class engaged in The historical
task of overthrowing feudalism, at
such a time the Constituent Assem-
bly, is really revolutionary mea-
sure which carries society forward,
and prepares it for the next stage
in historical development--the pro-
letarian dictatorship, and the build
ing of socialism. But today the
bourgeoisie as a class, and there
fore it's organs of class rule (Con-
stituent Assembly, etc., is reac-
tionary class, standing in the way
of even the completion of the bour-
geois-democratic revolution.
Therefore, those classes which
will and can carry through the
bourgeois democratic revolution
(workers and peasants) must fight
against the organs of bourgeois
class rule, and not support them.
They must set up their own rule.
While this can be done only under
the leadership of the workers over
the peasantry because of the lat
ter's political backwardness and in
stability this does not yet mean
the immediate transition to the pro-
letarian dictatorship. For this stage
of the revolution, the MARKHAM pro-
gram is that formulated by Lenin
for Russia in 1905, "the democratic
dictatorship of the proletariat and
peasantry" exercised through their
own organs of power, the Soviets or
councils.
Both the open right-wingers
(Lovestone, Brandler, Roy) and the
false ''lefts". Cannon, Trotsky),
seize upon the outlived form of the
bourgeois-democratic revolution, the
Constituent Assembly, but they re-
ject the actual, concrete embodi-
ment of this revolution in the move
ment for the democratic dictatorship
of proletariat and peasantry, and
the agrarian revolution denounced
as the work of "bandits"D.
Lovestone, Brandler, Roy, Can
non, Trotsky - one and all of the
renegades from Communism, have
passed over into the counter-revolu-
tionary camp of the bourgeoisie, on
all world issues before the working
class. On India and China they
betray with especial clearness their
counter-revolutionary faces. Their
program must be exposed, they
must be shown up as enemies of
the working class, their ideas must
be destroyed of all influence within
the revolutionary movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18
By EARL BRoWDER,


FOR a rising revolutionary move
ment, the most dangerous enemy
OF all is the opportunists within the
movement. Fundamental to the task
OF making a revolution, is the
struggle against opportunism, the
exposure of the opportunists, and
their complete elimination from all
positions of influence. This is the
first lesson Of Bolshevism, which
was born, grew, and matured, in
bitter struggle against opportunism
Y of all shades-open menshevism and
! the disguised variety known as
Trotskyism.
In regard to India, both varieties
of opportunism in the U. s., Love-
+! stonites and Cannonites, are reveal
ing their poisonous opportunist pol
{ icies. It is the duty of every revo-
! lutionary worker to learn to recog-
nize the menshevist nature of their
propaganda and slogans regarding
India, as first necessity in sup
porting the Indian revolution.
Consider first the active propa-
ganda of the Lovestonites on India.
A short time ago they advertised
street meeting, for which their
principle slogan was Demand Free
dom for Gandhi," instead of warn
ing the workers that Gandhi repre-
ssents those who are negotiating at
this moment the surrender of the
Anlian revolution to British imper-
iaIsm. In another meeting they
pp5 forth as spokesman of the In
dian revolution, Mr.. S. N. Chose,
whose program is expressed in his
public statement that "Soon we
h,pe to have a resolution introduced
IN both Senate and House asking
tie Government to recognize our
right of belligerency," because 'In-
dIa can become the greatest patron
Of American exports; Mr.. William
Fickens, Negro intellectual who,
at the Frankfort Anti-Imperialist
Congress in 1929, declared against
the withdrawal of imperialist sold
iers from Africa; and Timothy
Healy, a superannuated trade I'M
ion bureaucrat. They put forth the
program of Creation of commit
tees representing the workers, pea
SAINTS, students, intellectuals, small
traders" as "the basis of that pop
ular organ of power-The COnstitu-
ent Assembly--for deciding the fut-
ure of India" Their main slogan
for India is the "free national de-
mocratic state" They base them
selves entirely upon the bourgeoisie,
expressed in their declaration that
"the entire nation with the eXcep-
ton of small minority stand be-
hind the National Congress" They
: are helping in every way to ex-
pedite Gandhi in his plans - be-
tray the revolution. They even pro
pagandize against the boycott OF
the London Round Table Conference
set for October! They advocate
compromise with the native Princes
They oppose the seizure of land by
the peasants. They are, in short
the political agents of the bourge-
oisie in the question of India, just
as in every other principle political
issue of the day.
Where the Opportunists Meet.
In the slogan of Constituent As.
sembly, the open right-wing Love
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18
Labor" SwimdIeYs

mill strikers or with the Gharwai
Regiment.
The Independent Labor Confer
ence pretended to reserve the right
to oppose the Macdonald Govern
ment. On the position in the Colo
MES they are in the same despicable
conspiracy with the imperialists as
is Macdonald and Lord Irwin.
When fighting deputation of
workingclass representatives was
arranging in London to see Wedg-
wood Benn and to expose this cruel
policy in the Meerut trial, Maxtop
and Brockway, who both pretended
to be members of the Meerut De-
tense Committee, sabotaged the
movement of the bona fide working
class deputation, and a dishonorable
bogus Independent Labor Party
deputation helped to screen Wedg-
wood Benn from workingclass ex-
posure.
Since the pretense Of the hide
pendent Labor Party that they are
opposed to MacDonald's imperial
ism, literally pools of blood have
been flowing from the slaughtered
colonial workers, and the Independ-
ent Labor Party gang of political
importers does not even challenge
vote and oppose MacDonald's Gov
eminent.
Disgraceful Resolution.
In order to throw dust into the
eyes of the Indians, Brockway and
MaXton manoeuvred a resolution on
India which was of such disgrace
full imperialist character that no.
only the Macdonald Cabinet sup
ported it but even the Conservative
imperialists openly praised it and
backed it up in the House of Com
| mons. While the London branch O.
the Indian National Congress threw
an open challenge to Maxton thai
he was engaged in low tactics O.
sham fight against Macdonald OF
imperialist problems, he barefacedl.
admitted that he was confirming hi.
opposition only to such picturesque
questions as may increase his pop.
ularity and votes in Great Britain;
| and as for the murders of Negroes.
Indians, or Chinese workers, he wa;
not moved by any principle of So
cialism or humanity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18
By SHAPURJI SAKLATVALA.

By SHAPURJI SAKLATvALA.
THE British imperialists are wor-
ried to death: the revolutionary
spirit of the people of India is ris-
ing. Conservative and Liberal cir
cles are openly jubilant that at such
crisis the Labor Government is
in charge of the Empire. The I'M
animity of the Labor Parliamentary
Party in actual action is all the
more valuable on account of the
hypocritical words of the British
Independent Labor Party.
Lord Irwin, the present Viceroy,
has a reactionary policy almost
worse than any of the previous vice
roys. He has certified every Act
that the Indian Assembly has re-
jected, he has perpetuated the out
rageous mockery of law called the
Meerut trial of trade union leaders
he has inflicted upon Indian work
ers the Trades Disputes Act and
the Whitley Commission.
Prison Without Trial.
He has ordered Imprisonment
without trial or with mock trials
of workers representatives and
strikers all over the country, and
he and Macdonald combined to-
gether have sanctioned the taking
of human life of the working class
people on a more extensive scale
than was done during Baldwin's
Government.
And the Independent Labor Party
has still got the audacity to make
their Indian friends believe that this
Viceroy is to be looked upon as
more democratic than others. The
Independent Labor Party pretends
to pass resolutions in favor of In.
dia's independence, and yet recon.
mends the trickery of the Roun5
Table Conference also. Fennel
Brockway and all Independent La.
Dor Party members who have got
friends amongst the Indian bour.
geois politicians inside or outside
the Indian National Congress, are
continually writing letters to per.
suade them to enter into negotia
tions with the Labor Government a
the Round Table Conference.
They want the Indians to believe
that ruthless and murderous gov
eminent, by little friendly discus
sion around a conference table, will
give up their imperialist conspiracy
and will agree to midas freedom
Fenner Brockway and Maxtor
know very we'll that this RounC
Table Conference will be composed
of representatives of the British
House of Lords and the presen
House of Commons, one hundred
per cent of whom are in favor o,
Empire. It will have Indian Princes
it will have Indian Liberals repres
enting the highest and strongesr
capitalist interests of employers
money-lenders and land owners, ant
notorious Right Wing Indian Trade
Union leaders, beloved Of Indiar
capitalists, and then Fenner Brock
way and Company want some In
dian Left Wing pretenders from tn,
old Congress Party, who represen
per cent of midas enfranchiset
population.
Maxtou and Fenner Broekway arr
making every effort to support
Macdonald and Lord Irwin in draw
ing Gandhi into this game of the
Round Table Conference; they know
that Gandhi has stoutly refused t.
support or to identify himself witt
the struggle of the Meerut prison
ers, or of the textile workers o.
Bombay or of the Great Indian Pc
ninsula Railway strikers or the juts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18
Revolution, Not Salt

This shoes Gandhrs odheronts
after the manufacture of a pot
of salt at the Manu- River. Gandhi
and the Indian bourgeoisie are
trying to divert the revolutionary
ril of the masses into harmless
channels. But the revolutionary
mdsses are breaking through these
barriers and a6iu aoage an armed
struggle against all enploiters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18

J. Ramsay Macdonald, prime
minister of England for the labor
party, and commander in chief Of
her army and macy, lcbich he uses
9'athleSSIy against any of his i'm
peridliSt masters rerolting colon
ial SLAVES. Under has orders do: [
ems of Indian peasants and qOork
ers haze been murdered, GnG
hundreds imprisoned.