The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
On the
World Front
Bombay Strike
A Dying Press
Nazi Murder Threats
BY HARRY CANNES

IA through to the American
capitalist press that over Co..
900 textile workers are strik.
ing in Bombay, India. Bom-
bay is the storm center of the
Indian revolutionary workers
movement, and the strike is de-
veloping despite the fact that over
10000 workers in that city are I'M
employed.
Soon after May Day. when the
latest news was available. it APP
peared that there would be gen.
eral strike of all cotton workers of
Bombay and Sholapur
The workers struck against a
WAGE cut. The British and Indian
exploiters are cutting the starvation
pay Of the Indian workers in order
to compete with japanese textile
imports.
The London Daily Worker de-
elares that: "The strike movement
in India is developing to an ex-
tent which may even surpass the
great strike movement of 1899
which stirred up the whole of In
dustrial India"
The Indian reforrnist labor lead
ers, working with the Gandhi-ite
National Congress, are doing all
they can to avert a general strike,
helping the police terrorize' the
workers. Many workers were in
jured when police armed with lathi
(staves) attacked their picket lines.
The strikers. however, did not fol-
low Gandhi's on-resistance policy
and put at least three of the cops
in the hospital.
IN MORE than one occasion chief
" Nazi Propagandist Goebbels has
exhorted the Nazi press to increase
its circulation, but to no avail. Shot
through with the stultifying, cor
roding Fascist propaganda, it is
dying on its feet. Over 400 papers
have already gone out Of existence.
Monday Goshbels again tried to
pump a semblance of life into the
Nszi-stifled press.
He declared the German legal
press would be permitted to express
its free opinion--provided 1t does
not conflict with the opinions Of
Messers Hitler, Goebbels or Goer-
ing.
On a previous occasion, Goebbels
made the same speech. The Nazi
journalist Ehm Welk made some
very mild criticism" in the news
paper "Gruene Post" and the next
day found himself in a concentra-
ton camp. On Monday he was re-
leased.
While the circulation of the Nazi
press shows such tremendous sink
ing spells, the illegal revolutionary.
anti-fascist press is growing by
leaps and bounds.
Last December Goebbels de-
manded the Nazis use all their force
to increase the circulation of the
Nazi press.
Though the "Voelkischer BeO-
bachter" gained 10000 subscribers
since December. all others re-
corded heavy losses. "Angriff," in
the same period, lost $4,000 sub
scribers; the "Berliner TagebIatt,"
10000; the "B. z. am Mittag,"
5000; the "Deutsche AlIgemeine
Zeitung," 1000; the "LokaIan-
zeiger," 1890; the "Tag," 1000, the
Interchangeable" 5000; the ''BOer-
senzeitung." 1000; the "Germa-
nia," 1000; the 'Deutsche Eel
tung," 5000. and the frankfurt
ter Zeitung," 5000. A number of
these papers are considering clos
ing down altogether. The "Deut-
sche Tageszeitung," has already
declared that the July LIST issue
will be its last.
DECENTLY, Butcher Goering's spe-
N cial newspaper, the Essen Ma
tional zeitung," published a blood
curdling threat of the most draconic
measures against Communists that
should arouse every worker to the
grave dangers facing our Comrade
Thaelmann and other imprisoned
anti-fascist fighters.
The prime minister
states that he will not shrink from
making an example of those ele-
ments who are still, in spite Of
their better judgment, continuing
to SANDER the state and to stir up
rebellion, and will stamp on the
head of the bolshevist serpent by
placing these elements against the
wall"
The article then quotes the pas
sage of Goering's speech, kept Sc
cret by the German News Bureau,
given on the occasion of the trans
ference of the State Secret Police to
Himmler:
when we were out at the front
during the frightful world war, 1t
was necessary to stake human
lives to conquer some small por-
ton of the enemy trenches, in or
der that some strategic success
might be gained which was insig-
nificant in comparison with the
whole, and whose importance was
seldom fully realized by the plain
soldier who had to risk his life.
But the responsible leaders of the
army were aware of this impor-
lance, and did not shrink from the
responsibility of risking human
lives for the purpose of attaining
the great goal. And we, who are
responsible for the maintenance
of the state and of our magnifi-
cent realm, are we going to hesi-
tate in treading underfoot those
creatures who are endeavoring to
overthrow this realm? No, we shall
not hesitate, we shall tread them
underfoot, relentlessly, we shall