The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
On the
World Front
Brazilian Artillery
Gelignite Propaganda
10000 Bombay Strikers
World Price War
By HARRY CANNES

10000 Bombay Strikers
World Price War
THE day before the League
L of Nations issued its &c..
900 word squeamish report
on the FL Chaco war in Latin
America, the U. S. Depart.
ment of State published one
of 48 words, of equal signifi.
canoe.
''The Secretary of State" it read.
"and the Ambassador Of Brazil
signed this morning an agree
ment providing for a small Mill
tary Mission, composed of two
officers of the Coast Artillery Arm
Of the United States Army, to
assist in the work of instruction
at the Brazilian Coast Artillery
Instruction Center"
The League of Nations report is
the British imperialist expose Of
Wall Streets war preparations in
Latin America. Latin America Is
the Manchuria Of Anglo-American
conflicts. The recent war debt Bit
terness is just mild, surface ex-
preston of the deeper antagonismS
between these two imperialist BAN
dts that is rumbling like q threat
ening volcano throughout Latin
America.
The FL Chaco war between Bolivia
and Paraguay is Just the prelude
the preliminary clash of arms be-
tween the United States and
Britain. 1t has its counterpart in
nearly every Latin-American coun-
try
THE Mother of Parliaments is re-
sorting to the enactment of anti
Communist legislation by the use
of the explosive, gelignite. For some
time the new Sedition bill has been
hanging fire in Britain. with every
effort of the British ruling class to
rush through this fascist measure.
On Sunday some bright lad in the
British Scotland Yard or the War
Department (Which, may never be
cleared up) thought of the idea OF
blowing UP the ARMY Recruiting
Office in Bath Street, Glasgow. This
vest pocket edition of the Reichs-
tag fire will be followed by a greater
propaganda blast to rush through
the Sedition Bill.
The Sedition Bill. while directed
against propaganda in the armed
forces of his imperial majesty, Is
actually aimed at all revolutionary
working-c class propaganda. The bill
itself provides according to the
London Times, "the possession Of
any document of such nature that
the dissemination of copies among
members of His Majesty's Forces
would cause such an offense, is also
set out as a further offense."
In other words, any paper,
pamphlet or book that can be con-
strued as liable to contaminate the
armed forces of British imperialism
makes the holder liable to severe
punishment.
The Mother of Parliaments Is
giving birth to Nazi bastard, with
gelignite as the midwife.
OVER 10000 Bombay textile work.
" ers struck. according to the latest
copy of the Daily Worker of Great
Britain that has reached us.
Which means that q majority Of
the 10000 walked out shutting down
al Of 81 mills.
Ferocious attacks were made on
the picket lines. with the police
charging with their lathis (heavy
bamboo staves). The strikers re-
piled with a shower of bricks and
repulsed the attack. Then the po-
lice opened fire. but according to
capitalist press reports no one was
hurt Five strikers were arrested.
For so hour week, the average
earnings of male textile operatives
in Bombay is S4.12 a week, and
female, S1.75 per week. According
to the Royal Commission report
on labor in India, published in
1880, it is pointed out: ut Is es-
timated that in most industrial
centers the proportion Of families
and individuals in debt Is not less
than two-thirds Of the whole. We
hoIiovya that In he -,
Of cases, the amount of debt ex-
ceeds three months wages, and is
often far in excess of that
amount"
Besides this debt slavery, the In
dian textile worker exploited by q
series of jobbers. The worker is
hired through contractor, who is
supposed to train him for the fac
tory. For this service the worker
must pay out part of his wages.
Under the conditions that the In
dian textile workers are forced to
live, labor in the mills is equivalent
to a death sentence for great
number of them. The Royal Com
mission says on this point:
Tn the Bombay Presidency
where over 80 per cent of the
workers are employed in the cot
ton mills, their physical condition
is admitted on all hands to be
poor. An investigation carried out
a few years ago showed that these
mill workers have noticeably
low average weight, as compared
with other classes of labor, the
average being highest in Sholaqur,
lowest in Bombay, and midway in
| Ahmedabad.
Generally speaking, the cotton
mill workers have little of the
stamina required for sustained in
dustrisl life, and are easily sus-
ceptible to malaria and other dis
eases"