The daily worker., 1934-06-12
On the
World Front
L. BY HARRY CANNES -
Stubborn Indian Strike
Points on British Rule
Bombay News Censorship
Swedish Fascist Putsch?
BY HARRY CANNES

EOR over a month now
10000 Bombay textile
workers have been on strike.
Brutal attacks by the British
police force in India and
shooting at strikers have
failed to end the struggle. In
fact. the latest news is that the
stubbornness and persistency of the
strikers has forced the shutting
down of mills formerly working with
reduced forces.
The cotton mill workers are fight
ing for increased wages; but the
strike at the present juncture Of
events in India and throughout the
world is Of even greater significance.
1t marks the opening of a new wave
Of anti-imperialist struggles, a new
assault on British imperialist rule
in India.
In Britain everything is being
done in preparation for the holding
Of this keystone of the colonial em-
pire by blood and fire. British lords
do not stoop at a little perjury,
meanwhile, in order to get over
their policy on India. Only last
Friday, Sir Samuel Hosre, Secretary
for India, was held "blamelesS" of
the charge of bringing pressure on
witnesses to change their testimony
before the parliamentary committee
considering Indian constitutional
reforms" Sir Hoare, said the white
washing committee, did not black
jack the witnesses. but merely per-
suaded" them,
seJUE DID not conquer India for
W the benefit of the Indians"
bluntly said Sir w. Joynson- Hicks,
when he was home secretary Of
Britain.
81 know what is said In mission
ary meetings that we conquered
India to raise the level of the
Indians. That I can't. We con-
guered India as the outlet for the
goods of Great Britain. 1 am not
such hyp0crite as to say we hold
India for the Indians. We hold
it as the finest outlet for Brit
aims goods in general and for
Lancashire cotton in particular"
India, however, is more than
market for Britain. 1t is a fertile
source of industrial, shipping, in-
surance profits, taxes, administra-
tive jobs, raw materials, and
thousand of other means by which
the super profits from India are
poured into England.
But in order to dominate India,
to insure the cesseless flow Of gold
and goods into England for the BEN
eft of the British ruling class, the
Indian masses are driven and
starved, beaten and enslaved.
A Manchester newspaper. the
Northern Voice" once briefly and
sketchily pictured the lot of the In
dian workers as follows
"Over 1000 factories are never
inspected in India. Coal miners
receive four ShillingS six pence
(Sl.25) per week. The average in
come in India is three pounds
ISIS a year, per head of the pop
ulation. Working in factories in
India are $4,000 children under IL
years OF age; 95 per cent of the
workers babies are fed opium and
opium is government monopoly.
There are $4,000 women in the
coal mines in India. Infant NOR
tality is as high as S84 per thou
sand in the workmen's houses Of
Bombay. In Indian factories the
workers babies sleep on the floors
while the mothers work among
the dust and noise"
THE news of the struggles COM
ing out of India undergo most
subtle but severe censorship. For
instance, very little of the day-to-
day strike news from Bombay
reaches India. None at all comes
to the United States. We learn
why from Mr.. Constantine Brown.
of the Washington Evening Star.
Mr.. Brown says that in 1923 the
Chicago Daily News sent corre-
spondent to India to cover the revo-
lutionary uprisings and struggles of
that period. The News" corre-
spondent sent his stuff via London.
The cables were held up in London.
1.-THE branch manager who did
not want to lose an account OF
something like $500 month,
called and offered all kinds of ex-
cuses," whites Mr.. Brown. In the
end he confidentially informed the
writer that before the dispatches
were relayed to New York, they had
to be copied and the copy sent to
the offices of a certain captain in
the Admiralty for his information
The Chicago Daily News corre-
spondent, incidentally, was cabling
news favorable to British impe-
rialism.
FROM Stockholm, Sweden, comes
the news that the Communist
Party organ, my Dag" has pub
lished sensational revelations from
well-authenticated sources showing
that leading fascist circles in Swe-
den are maintaining the closest
connections with the German fas-
cists. These connections are estab-
lished with Goering through his
brother-in-la one Won Rosen,
Swedish scientist. The my Dag"
declares that the Swedish fascists,
with the help of the German Nazis,
are working for an attempted
putSch this Fall.
A large number of officers of high
rank, the fascist parliamentary
deputy, Captain Moserhoffer, and
the military leader of the fascist
ipcitad Voll1ntner national defnnca