The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1924, Page 11

vf _ Constituting a conspiracy was arrived - at by means of letters written by the) accused to each other.” This conspir-| ' ‘is a deliberate attempt. on foot to render the growth of a political party of the working class impossible in India, by damning it before hand in the eyes of the law - ag “seditious conspiracy,” and by pra- secuting those champions of the ex- plbited and downtrodden masses who seek to point the way to their eman- | e¢ipation. Without any warning, and upon no adequate legal grounds, the Director of the Intelligence. Department of In- dia, Col, Kaye, has preferred a charge in the Magistrate’s court. of Cawnpur, U. P., against Manabendra Nath Roy and seven other Indians, of “conspir- acy against the sovereignty of the King-Bmperor,” for the crime of hav- img advocated the organization of a mass-party of workers and peasants im India! The whole charge is a frame-up to declare the young Communist and working-class movement illegal, and te crush it to the ground. befere it has had time to root itself deeply in the minds of the exploited proletariat. and peasantry. The steadily-growing spir- it eof revolt that is present among the Indian masses,—the deep interest. that ‘is being taken among wider sections of the population im the ideas and theories of scientific Socialism, above all, the danger that the organization ef a class-conscious party of the In- dian working-class would constitute . for British Imperialism, have driven fear im the souls of the Anglo-Indian ruling class. They dread another Rus- siam Revolution repeated in India on a larger scale. Hence the steady anti- Russian prepaganda that has been carried on in the Indian press, fed by Reuter. Hence also, the present trial. The evidence, like the charge it self, is trumped up to suit the ecea sion. Out of eight accused, only two are present to defend thenrselves,— Dange and Singaravelu Chettiar. One is the editor of a theoretical weekly paper called “The Socialist’; the Labour Government, describing itself as. Socialist, rules India from White- hall? The crime of these letters, accord- ing to Col. Kaye, seema to consist. in the: fact. that they criticize the. Indian bourgeoisie as well as the British rul- ing-class, and even venture to ques- tion the action of Mahatma Gandhi in ordering the Bardoli Retreat, which resulted in the condemnation of 72 starving peasants to death by hang- ing for the erime of having attempted to better their miserable lot, and to the subsequent arrests and sentence to six years’ imprisonment of the Ma- hatma himself. The ‘letters further declare, according to Col. Kaye, that “the bourgeoisie will not accept a (Communist program,” and that it therefore became necessary to organ- ize @ party of the Indiam workers and peasants, free from Congress control. This is indeed a great crime in the eyes of the Anglo-Indian bureaucrats, but. what about the British proletariat, which is supposed to rule India today thru its elected representatives that constitute the Labour Government? Has. the Labour Party, the Labour Government nothing to say in defense of the: right of the Indian proletariat and peasantry to organize into a political party for their own eman- cipation? Further “proof” produced by In-|j dia’s Seotland Yard Chief consists in. Party and the world proletariat to! protest im the name of International | working-class solidarity against the wholesale slaughter of 72 Indian peas- ants, driven to revolt by hunger pro | cuced by the unbearable exploitation | of the British Government in league with the Indian landlords. This is, Communism on Trial in India class movement of India. The few constitutional privileges that exist for the bourgeoisie, miserably curtailed tho they are, are to be altogether de- nied to the Indiam working-class. Will India stand for it? Will the British Labour Government. sit quietly by while this. travesty of justice takes place? Will the British working-class allow this. act of treason to be com- mitted against the Indian workers and peasants im their name? One hundred and fifty thousand workers in the cotton-mills. ef Bom- bay have been locked-out for two months and refused their back pay already earned, and bonus by the Indian Mill Owners’ Association, which has been drawing profits of from 12 to 20 per cent, while the workers are dying in the streets from starvation! The Indian Government refused to intervene with the “free- dom of negotiation between capital} and lahour,” which means the free- dom of the mill-owners to exploit the workers at their pleasure, protected by the machine-guns and armed forc- es of the State. On Mach 7th, mount- ed soldiers: and police were called out land armored cars were brought to bear against am unarmed mob of peacefully demonstrating workers, four of whom were killed and count- other is editor of a small weekly, Labour Government of Britaim noth-|dian working-class by branding it as trial or due process of law on the un- proven charge of being “Bolshevik Agents”; the other two, Manabendra)} Nath Roy, an exile im Europe, and}; Sharma, an exile in French India, have not the least chance to appear in ' their own defense. secution that imtercepted letters, al-} leged to have been writtem by the ac- cused, call for the “complete separa- tion of India from Imperialist Britain: by means of a violent revolution,” this end to be achieved by the organi- zation of a party of workers and peas- acy, explains the Colonel was to be It appears that the six absent are to be proclaimed guilty by default of any epportunity to defend themselves. appears that the two accused who will appear in their own defense have been permitted the services of a law- WILE COMMUNISM BE STAMPED = By M. N. Ray SAND TIMES NO! Communism sur- vived the bloody aristocracy of the Czars, and sits today triumphant as the ruling power of Soviet Russia and the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics. It will some day see the end of imperial rule in India, and will lead the hungering masses on a bet- ter read to freedom. The Communist Party of India de- mands a manifestation of solidarity from the Communist Parties of all countries, and from the militant pro- letariat thruout the world. It ealls upon the British Labour Government and the British proletariat to de- nounce this attempt to crush the right of the Indian working-class to agitate and organize for its own emancipa- tion. Failure to do so will be a last- ing blot on their name in the history of the working-class struggle. OUR SCHOOLS (Continued from Page 2.) eur school histories. If perchance an educator ventures from the path prescribed by the money powers and voices his opinion orally or in the form of a text book he is promptly dismissed and his book discredited. In no event must the ‘children of America he contaminated with any new idea. We encourage the medical students to dissect a cadaver in order that they may arrive at the truth. Should not a new idea be placed om the dissecting table as well? The Teachers Are Not Free. In order to carry out their plans for class domination it was necessary, of course, that those who impart the in- formation should be subservient to the moneyed class. This practically takes care of itself for the teachers are the ‘products. of the schools, have never ben trained to think independently, hence they accept unquestioningly. If there should be any who see the light and voice their opinions openly they are at once dismissed as “dangerous radicals.” So the teachers group themselves into two classes, the one composing the greater number do not know that they are enslaved—they are perfeetly satisfied with things as they are. The other which represents a ‘very small per cent know the truth ‘able condition and need help. The “t start te write a play in my hotel. Too noisy, so | pack up and/first group must be educated for the dash off to Washington. Then to Atlantic City. After | have visited half-|slave who is unconscious of his fetters It is alleged om behalf of the pro-| adezen or more cities | come back and begin to weite’—“Why my plays}makes no effort to better his condi- succeed,” by George M. Cohan. The simpte proletarian With dramatic aspiration. Wifl never make a healthy stake > if he stays im one location. He may be earning twenty Or twenty-five a week, But wealth galore, will on him pour 'f travel he will seek. He may be down, he may be out And unemployed for years, But Cariton suites, and Statler eats, Will ripen his ideas. 3 The stoekyard and the foundry © - May give him hire and cash, But folks will praise his wondrous plays, if ’round the earth he'll dash, Altho he’s read the classics And studied at every school, ; His plays will fail, for lack of kale, Unless he’s a travelling fool. Producer of the country’s wealth, - * He can’t produce a play, The parasite, just Like spider holds his prey. His family, friends and furniture Must all be left. behind. A railroad fare, new cities’ air, Will stimulate his mind. holds him tight tion. The latter must be liberated academically and economically. Neith- er the teacher, who has no under- stand of freedom, nor the one who, understanding, is not permitted to live it, can lead the children to that land of truth and beauty which is the ulti- ‘mate dream of the workers. Servility Big Bear is attacking a Come page ay A small booklet (the Bee), just 225 pages 1“Communism and Christianism” Bishop W. M. Brown. wee before a court of eight well-fed Bishops (the Bears) nga a