The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-30
GANDHI FAILS TO PACIFY MASSES:
VIOLENT STRUGGLES GROW IN INDIA

could strengthen its hold on India.
Macdonald announced this policy as
one ito bind India to you (Britaim
by bonds of confidence" as we'll as
by armed repression. The conf
dence," of course, will be that of the
Indian bourgeoisie like Gandhi who
together with the British exploit the
Indian masses.
Stanley Baldwin, leader of the
Conservative Party, and Sir John
Simon, sponsor of the Simon report
or India, which called for an iron
hand to rule India, concurred in
MacDonald's report. The Round
Table Conference was composed of
over 100 of the leading feudal lords
and capitalists of India, and tho,
representatives of British imper-
ialism.
Macdonald made it clear that the
policy of enlisting Gandhi and the
Nationalist was dictated by the
growing deep discomfort among the
masses of peasants and workers who
were expressing their revolutionary
spirit by increased violent outbreaks.
off we are prepared to march our
troops from the Himalayas to Cape
Comorin Cthat is from one end of
India to the other then refuse to
allow us to go on with this plan"
said Macdonald. There was no re-
fusal to allowing Macdonald to go
on with this plan Of strengthening
the bond with Gandhi against the
workers and peasants.
Despite all the talk of bonds of
confidence" the British are increas-
ing their attacks on the Indian
workers and peasants. During the
past ten days there has been serious
fighting in Bombay and other cities.
Hundreds of arrests were made. On
the very day Gandh was released,
the Associated Press reported that
one Moslem was killed and fifty
wounded when police at Hilphamari
fired on a group of peasants and
workers. over 300 were arrested, and
armed forces brought into town to
patrol the streets.
Gandhi, realizing the difficulty of
the task, as the masses have gone far
beyond the mild measures prescribed
by the Nationalist, on his release
said: Il am not at all happy at the
thought of Entering again the whirl-
pool Of life in the outside world, with
its strife, suffering, sorrow and sor-
didness.'
On his arrival in Bombay, Tuesday
morning, he informed the British
imperialists that he had difficult
task as the masses had broken away
from the Nationalist. THE authori-
ties" he declared, evidently do not
yet understand that the Nationalist
movement has so affected the minds
of the masses that their leader,
however eminent they may be, arr
utterly unable to dictate any course
of action"
This is an open admission that the
masses are out of the hands of the
Nationalist leaders, and that Gandhi
fears he may not be able to put over
the projects for which he was re-
leased. He has appealed for the re-
lease of other Nationalist leaders to
help him subdue the masses.
The Bombay nationalist news
paper, however, asked the British to
have patience with Gandhi. "Gandhi
and his colleagues" they wrote on
the day he was released. "can always
be trusted to consider the issue be-
fore them calmly and diSpassion-
ately."
The British are very anxious to
rush through the results of the
Round Table Conference before the
masses overwhelm both the British
imperialists and the Nationalist.
Lord Peel, conservative member of
the Round Table Conference, said:
1T would be great misfortune Gor
British imperialism if this mighty
scheme could not be started on its
great career" Viceroy Lord Irwin,
last Saturday. issued an appeal to
the Nationalist to cooperate. The
release of Gandhi is the first step "to
start this Anighty scheme" Mac
Donald'Y talk about troops from the
Himalayas to Cape Comorin is tho
iron hand in the velvet glove--the
threat of more bloody terror if the
British yoke is not accepted.
Gandhi will fail in his attempts to
get the masses to accept this scheme
Of further enslavement. He already
is disconnected with difficulty Of his
task. The Indian revolution is sweep
ing beyond the scope of the Nation
alists. The Indian Communist Party
has already issued its Draft Program
of Action through which the masses
viii be led to the final victory
against British imperialism.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Demands for
food have doubled in II days, the
Red Cross reports on southwestern
states. Children will starve unless