The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 22, 1930, Page 1

Company, Inc. 26 Published daily ercent s Sunday by ‘The Comprodally. ablishing unre, New York City, N. ‘el Marx on India N order to understand the present struggle in India, it well to recall some of its historical background. The Daily Worker has already spoken of one of India’s famous revolts in the past, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, which was one of the first stirrings of that country under the lash of Britain’s most modern methods of exploitation under the drive of machine industry. At that time Karl Marx Was w a regular correspondence for the New York Tribune, and his article printed in the issue of September 16, 1857, dated London, Sept. 4th, deals with “The Indian Revolt.” It is so pertinent to the present sit- uation, that we reproduce the article complete. * * * The outrages committed by the revolted Sepoys in India are in- deed appalling, hideous, ineffable—such as one is prepared to meet s, of rac and above all »f religion; in one word, such as respectable England used to applaud when perpetrated by the Vendeans on the “Blues,” by the Spanish Servians, on their German and fe: in wars of insurrection, of nationalit: guerillas on the infidel Frenchmen, by Hungarian neighbors, by Croats on Viennese rebels, by Cavaignac’s Garde Mobile or Bonaparte’s Decembrists on the sons and daughters of proletarian France. However infamous the conduct of the Sepo; it is only the reflex, in a concentrated form, of England’s own conduct in India, not only during the epoch of the foundation of her Eastern Empire, but even during the last ten years of a long settled rule. To characterize that rule, itysuffices to say that torture formed an or- ganic institution of its financial policy. There is something in human history like retribution, and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended, but by the offender himself. The first blow dealt to the French monarchy proceeded from the nobility, not from the peasants. The Indian revolt does not commence with the Ryots tortured, dishonored and stripped naked by the British, but with the Sepoys, clad, fed, petted, fatted and pampered by them. To find parallels to the Sepoy atrocities we need not, as some London papers pretend, fall back on the middle ages, nor even wander beyond the history of contemporary England. All we want is to study the first Chinese war, an event, so to say, of yesterday. The English soldiery then committed abominations for the mere fun of it; their passions being neither sanctified by religious fanaticism nor exacer- bated by hatred against an overbearing and conquering race, nor pro- voked by the stern resistance of a heroic enemy. The violations of women, the spittings of children, the roastings of whole villages, were then mere wanton sports, not recorded by Mandarins, but by British officers themselves. Even at the present catastrophe it would be an unmitigated mis- take to suppose that all the cruelty is on the side of the Sepoys, and all the milk of human kindness flows on the side of the E: ish. The letters of the British officers are redolent of malignity. An officer writing from Peshawar gives a description of the disarming of the 10th irregular cav- alry for not charging the 55th native infantry when ordered to do so. He exults in the fact that they were not only disarmed, but stripped of their coats and boots, and after having received 12 d. per man, were .marched down to the riverside, and there embarked in boats and sent down the Hindus, where the writer is delighted to expect every mother’s son will have a chance of being drowned jn the rapids. Another writer informs us that, some inhabitants of Peshawar having caused a night alarm by exploding little mines of gunpowder in honor of a wedding (a national custom), the persons concerned were tied up next morning, and “received such a flogging as they will not easily forget.” News arrived from Pindee that three native chiefs were plotting. Sir John Lawrence replied by a message ordering a spy to attend to the meeting. On the spy’s report, Sir John sent a second message, “Hang them.” The chiefs were hanged. An officer in the civil service, from Allahabad writes: “We have power of life and death in our hands, and we assure you we spare not.” “Not a day passey but we string up from ten to fifteen of them (non-combatants).” One exulting of- ficer writes: “Holmes is hanging them by the score, like a ‘brick.’” Another, in allusion to the summary hanging of a large body of na- tives: “Then our fun commenced.” A third: “We hold court-martials on horseback, and every nigger we mect with we either string up or shoot.” Another from the same place: From Benares we are informed that thirty Zemindars were hanged on the mere suspicion of sympathizing with their own countrymen, and whole villages were burned down on the same plea. An officer from Benares, whose letter is printed in the London Times, says: “The European troops have become fiends when opposed to natives.” while the cruelties of told simply, rapidly, And then it should not be forgotten that,” the English are related as acts of martial vigor, without dwelling on disgusting details, the outrages of the natives, shocking as they are, are still deliberately exaggerated. For instance the circumstantial account first appearing in the Times, and then going the round of the London press, of the atrocities perpetrated at Delhi and Meerut, from whom did it proceed? From a cowardly parson residing at Bingalore, Mysore, more than a thou- sand miles, as the bird flies, distant from the scene of action. Actual accounts of Delhi evince the imagination of an English parson to be ) capable of breeding greater horrors than even thes wild fancy of a » Hindoo mutineer. The cutting of noses, breasts, etc., in one word, the horrid mu- tilations committed by the Sepoys, are of course more revolting to European feeling than the throwing of red-hot shell on Canton dwell- ings by a secretary of the Manchester Peace Society, or the roasting of Arabs pent up in a cave by a French Marshal, or the flaying alive of British soldiers by the cat-o’-nine-tails under drum-head court- martial, or. any other of the philanthropical appliances used in British penitentiary colonies. Cruelty, like every other thing, has its fashion, changing according to time and place, Caesar, the accomplished scholar, candidly nar- rates how he erdered many thousand Gallic warriors to have their right hands cut off. Napoleon would have been ashamed to do this. He preferred dispatching his own French regiments, suspected of republicanism, to St. Domingo, there to die of the blacks and the plague. The infamous mutilations committed by the Sepoys remind one of the practices of the Christian Byzantine Empire, or the prescriptions athe Emperor Charles V’s criminal law, or the English punishments fér high treason, as still recerded by Judge Blackstone. With Hindoos, mom their religion has made virtuosi in the art of self-torturing, these tdrtures inflicted on the enemies of their race and creed appear quite =Btural, and must appear still more so to the English, who, only some years since, still used to draw revenues from the Juggernaut festivals, y-otecting and assisting the bloody rights of a religion of cruelty. The frantic roars of the “bloody old Times,” as Cobbett used to call it—its playing the part of a furious character in one of Mozart's operas, who indulges in most melodious strains in the idea of first hanging his enemy, then roasting him, then quartering him, then spit- tie him, and then flaying him alive—its tearing the passion of re- vinge to tatters and to rags—all this would appear but silly if under th pathos of tragedy there were not distinctly perceptible the tricks of comedy. The London Times overdoes its part, not only from panic. Tf supphes comedy with a subject even missed by Moliere, the Tartuffe of Revenge. What it simply wants is to write up funds and to sercen the gov- ernment. As Delhi has not, like the Walls of Jericho, fallen before mei. puffs of wind, John Bull is to be steeped in cries for revenge up ta*nis very ears, to make him forget that his government is responsible tor the mischief hatched and the colossal dimensions it has been «l- Towed to assume, ‘Censorship Covers jar {leader's jthe Indians. jing the confidence of the anti-im- | perialist movement. |21.—The Argentine goverr jyears, GANDHI CONFERS WITH BRITISH TO STAB REVOLT All Cases of Militant Actions by Masses “Labor” Go-Betweens! 600 Salt Raiders Are Injured; Many Jailed | BULLETIN. BOMBAY, India, May 21.— Latest reports show the number of those injured by British police here yesterday to he over 600. Svc hotk As predicted already, “Mahatma” Gandhi is bu: British government authorities to call off as much of the anti-imper- ialist movement in India as still will ten to him. While from widely arated parts of the land reports {come that the revolutionary move- ment is growing, and that particu- larly the factory workers of the cities refuse to tamely submit to st or dispersal by the British Gandhi gives the | pitalist p interviews in his comfortable quarters in Yerovda jail, near Poona. The London Daily Mail’s Bombay } correspondent announces that Mac Donald’s “labor party” has sent re-} porters of “British labor papers” as | agents to carry on the negotiations A list of contractural points was submitted to Gandhi, according to this report, and he asked time to revise and consider them, Sailing a Trick? Such a move will explain in very tisfactory manner the reasons for sting Gandhi just at the time he was arrested. The “Mahatma” had before his arrest given the British government his blessing in any vio- lence it might undertake against those Indians who defied the mis- “non-violence” creed—for He was obviously los- police and soldi Throwing him in jail, a comfortable jail, was the preliminary move to restore confi- dence in him, if gossible, before he actually tried to do as he did in 1922 and called on the movement to halt. | It is difficult to tell what hap- pens in India, even capitalist press reports being heavily censored by the British government. The mere fact of the ceisorship, however, in- dicates that the movement takes on more and more a mass character and that it takes a more revolutionary form. Gandhi’s non-resistance stunts were never censored. Dispatches Garbled. The United Press News Service jreports from Bulsar that 250 were jin | teers who raided the Dharsana hw |lice clubbed the raiders unmercifully (Continued on Page Three) | red by a police assault on volun- salt The po- ks in force yesterday. URUGUAY GETS QUEER REQUEST. ls MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, May nent has formally asked the Uruguayan gov- ernment for a list of all Russians who have become naturalized Uru- | guayan citizens in the last four} Nobody knows why, but Uruguay is sending the y negotiating with the | ae ages Chwmnens [oe WOR ofoaTET > ass matter at the Vost Office at New York. N. ¥.. under the act ef March = Worke 3, 1879. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1930 SUBSCRI and Bronx, ON RATE New York City FINAL CITY EDITION 86 a year everywhere excepting Manhattan nd foreign countries, there $8 a year. Price 3 Cents For any who doubt the Communists are correct in their analysis | of Briand’s “Pan- Federation” being a weapon of war cgainst the Soviet Union, we reproduce above a picture from a capi: talist paper, the New York Post of Tuesday, May, 20. This is an admission that “European Unity” is not for “peace” but for war. It is not a plow-share, but a sword, that is being ferged—and “forged” is a most excellent word, since the “moral” preparation of the masses is being made for war against the Soviet Union on thebasis of for- geries—as we clearly see in the Whalen-Easley forgeries of “Com- JUDGE VAUSE'S WORK OR WAGES; PERHIRY RY BARED NOT WET OR DRY But Tammany Grafter Reading “Meet Slogan, Is Out on $5,000 in Pennsylvania County Judge Bernard J. Vause| PHILADELPHIA, May Huropean appeared in court today with his While one corrupt gang ‘in the re-| attorneys, apparently well at ease,) publican party is crowing’ over get- | and confident that no good Tam-| ting the republican nomination from many man, however much of hi: | another corrupt gang, the Commu- graft may be exposed, will ever/nist Party is calling all workers’ | suffer more than Vitale, who hasn’t ‘organizations to elect delegates to) done much time yet, or any other/the Communist state nominating! of those who really make polities! convention to be held at*Reading on| god,” sarcastic state 21. —| pay. | June 1. It is only the elected representa-| In the republican primaries, Sec-y tives of the workers, men like Fos-| petary of Labor Davis, supported by ter, Amter, Minor, Raymond and the odorous Vare machipe, has won Lesten who are jammed through the|the senatorial nomination from courts into three y jail terms,| Grundy, the noted reactionary, not | without trial by jury, or bail during that Davis is less reactionary, but) appeal. not so notorious, and thus is able) to keep up the pretense of “purity” | of capitalist class rule, | Gifford Pinchot, the fake “liberal” | around whom gathered a whole) Another Indictment, Much of Vause’s activity was ex- posed yesterday—so much that the Federal Grand Jury had to indict} him for perjury. The charge is| gamut of crooks and deceivers from that he said that $35,000 of the/the Muste social fascists to Andy $250,000 he got from the United! Mellon, seems to have lost the merican Lines for getting the|nomination for governor to F. S, Tammany city government to give) Brown. But since Mellon also sup-| them a lease on a couple of piers, ports Brown along with the A. F. was spent hiring an engineer known of L., capitalism lost nothing at all’ as “Baxter” to make a survey. It|in this welter of pig-sty politics of the capitalist class. | It remains for the workers, up- holding “Work or Wages” rather) than “wet or dry,” to rally to the party of the-workers at Reading. seems there never any Baxter. Yesterday, also, two associates of Vause pleaded guilty to the same crime Vause and his brother are charged with: mail fraud growing out of the Columbia Financing Corp. deals. It was established yesterday that | (Continued on Page Two) \ Forward to Mass Conference July 4th. numbers, use of police, Judge and a Prcscontor Hold Secret Meets Against Toilers Prejudice the Jury Flaiani Tells of Work sates expected, from steel or Wage Speech NEWARK, N. J., May —While nine testified for inick Flaiani, Communist Party or- ganizer on trial for sedition before witn Dom- Judge Walter Van Riper, the judge and prosecuting attorney, Simon Fisch, were plotting for his convic- tion. Before the morning session started and during the lunch recess the judge and prosecutor held se- cret meetings in the judge’s cham- bers. The afternoon was held up three-quarters of an hour session while the confab was going on. Today’s cross-examination was featured ‘by the attempt prosecutor to prejudice the jury by constantly weferring to the fact that the witnesses “do not believe in also by sneering and making nts when cross-ex (Continued on Page Three) ANTI-LYNCHING MEETS C IN BROOKLYN, FRIDAY All workers, Negro and white, ar jcalted to a huge protest meeting in Brooklyn against the lynching of the |Negro worker in Sherman, Te | This meeting wMl be held F at the Workers’ Center, 105 That- ford Ave., near Pitkin Ave. Prom- inent speakers, under the auspicés of the Communist Party, Young Communist League and American Negro Labor Congress. There will also be demonstrations at Howard and Dean Sts. and at El- ton and Pitkins Ave. BARBERS MEET IN SPITE OF THUGS All the efforts of Tartamella, with the use of gangsters in unlimited and a ance from the rain, failed to pre the militant barbers of New York from spreadiig their leaflets ye: terday calling on barbers to take over’the fake strike and make it a | real one. Taréamella, the Journeyman Bar- bers international representative in New York threatened every barber at his meeting that if he left to eo |to the Trade Union Unity League Barbers’ Section ma: West 17th St., that man would be set on and beaten to a pulp by the hired thugs the Tartamella clique had massed in his hall. But though this reduced the attendance at the T.U.U.L. hall, and though the rain interfered, there was a good meeting of militants, many joined the T.U. U.L. group, and the program pr posed by the T.U.U.L., for a real struggle for the ten hour day and five day week, $40 a week wage, no hire and fire system, for unem- ployment insurance, etc., was en- | thusiastically approved. of the} | ties | torne: meeting at 13) Thugs who by Secretary S. Against Unemployment, Chicago | tried to stop distribution of leaflets addressed their union meeting last | got the worst of it. NEWARK JOBLESS Schenectady LEADERS ON TRIAL HIT POLICE LIES... Meet Sunday to Nominate delegates of work- ers’ organizations are prevenney to gather at Schenectady next Sunday for the Nominating Convention of jthe Communist Party.” Over three hundred delegates are Pa to leave from New York y, but large, numbers also strial ming from the many ind cities of th tate. From Buffalo, among the 75 dele- uto and LEGALISM HIT BY FOO) UNION all Bakers | to Plan Action Unanimous condemnation of tac- involving any voluntary proach to capitalist courts was voted at Tuesday night’s session of the executive committee of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union, meeting at 16 W. 2ist St. The question came up when it was reported that certain members of Bakers Local 3, A. F. W., after being expelled and thrown out of a union meeting by gangsters, went to the district at- seeking medicine for their wounds! They bar association, obligingly told them that all they were recommended to the where a lawyer jhad to do (!) was to have dupli- | and cated copies printed of the Local 3 constitution, dues books, stamps, ete., get a court order stopping pa, ment on checks issued by Local officials, call a membership meet- ing to have themselves elected as} new officials, and the union would | be saved! No dissenting vote was cast to a motion condemning such legalistic skulduggery as a betrayal of work- | ing-class interests. Reports of fhe winning of 17 new union shop& since the opening of the F. W. I. U. headquarters in the Bronx and Brooklyn were made by the food clerks’ department; while both bakers and hotel, restaurant and cafeteria workers’ departments reported large gains in ship. the Communist State Nominating Convention in Schenectady. urday in Brooklyn at 76 Throop Ave. Here, members of Section 3, Local 500, are expected to come en masse | as a result of*enthusiasm aroused! by an F. W. I. U. committee, headed Wiseman, which Saturday. 15,000 Florida Toilers Hear ‘Daily’ Call We Ave Waiting to Hear from Your City, Only Organized Action Will Help Us in This Emergency, “La Traduccion,” a paper published in the Spanish language at Tampa, Florida, and which circulates among 15,000 cigar makers in that state, has called upon its readers to aid the Daily Worker. appeal with a $5 contribution. This appeal in this paper will be read to the workers in the Florida cigar factories by official readers, who, mounted on high chairs, read to they perform their daily labors, the workers The ¢ makers of They. recently chased A. F. they know this reactionary duccion,” not a Party paper, only a general newspaper, has reprinted editorials from the Daily Worker by request of these cigar makers, addressing the 15,000 Florida cigar makers it states in part: “The Daily? Worker is in financial difficulties. We know that the labor,situation in Tampa is bad. But we believe that, a ° It heads its roofs. bosses. Florida have aided the Daily Worker before. of L. organizers out of their midst because organization and want none of it. “La Tra- In Unemployment everywhere is bad. as on other occasions, the workers here will be able to do something for the defender of revolutionary ideas in the United States, Worker.” This will be read to 15,000 workers In the Florida cigar aeaeaiees These workers will respond, the Daily Emergency Fund is increasing. Party membership does not yet measure up to Bolshevik standards, Party m@mbers, answer this—when will your city get into action? in new subs and donations the Party has as 4 / And now we again turn our eyes to the immense northern terri- tory, wheye we have millions of workers in basic industries, enslaved. sweatedg driven to exhaustion under thousands of shop, mill and factory These workersthave no official readers to read the Daily ‘Worker to them as they speed up their weary bodies to make more profits for the We must bind these workers to our revolutionary vanguard by making them readers of the Daily Worker, We appeal to you again, to hold an emergency meeting of leading comxades in your city. house to house collection), decide to visit every single workers’ organiza- tion in your city for contributions. official Daily Worker campaign list to use at once and secure the $5 quota Decide to organize a mass collection (tag day, Insist that every comrade put his igned to him. The response from individual supporters to our call for a $25,000 Organized action in cities where we have Saturday ap- P| {are thrown out | large industrial towns such as | kiang, member- | Four delegates were elected to| v i | that the Final preparations were. made for | a mass meeting of bakers this Sat-! | don is not without ‘of the Unempk j nist Party, we | will be a larger t RED ARMIES CAPTURE 46 CHINA TOWNS Control 60,000 Square Miles, Eve of First Soviet Congress V ictopies Daily New Shersieal plants, are also delegates [eon thes Iroquois Indian Confed- |Anti-Communist Drive eration, whose leader,@Chief Thun- Paralysed dervoice, spoke at the Communist ASS, Party demonstration on May Day in} As the gen Chinn Buffalo. \deepens, as the The Iroquois Indians, robbed of|¢he count ne their lands and restricted to small] throat, and aha reservations of land, since the! Congress, which is sch agrarian crisis began have been un-| moet on May 30, draw able to make a living farming, and | drive GE eremohincse Re many, especially the younger ele-| and the revolut <orkess aad ments, have gone into industry as| peasants increases in intensity and wage workers, In the chemical] momentum and is piling up brilliant plants they are given the worst jobs | records of victc the form of and the poorest pay. 5 rapid extension the area under Under the excuse of solving the} Soviet rule ar adening and (Continued on Page Two) deepening ion through- out the countr A total of 46 additional towns and cities in the provinces of Kiangsi, Kwangtung, Fukien, Hunan and Anhwei e beer ured by the Red Arn dre | within the last 30 day a special cable dispatch to the New York Sun yesterday 60,000 Square Miles. The dispatch also contains an es- timate of the size of the territory under Soviet rule which is put be tween 50,000 and 60,000 square miles, about the size of the state of Illinois or Michigan. City or town Soviets were established in place of the old magistr: Ww by the angsi province which ¢ Te-chen (porcelain producing center in China), Pinghsian ( coal mining) and Kanchow (paper and sugar), ete. is the province almost which, with the exception of a small | area, under Soviet Armies Soviet fo: in provinces e also adva to new positions aining victories almost every Associated p authorities reports tha Fukien) be- will con- (in lieve Commmnistie activity tiaue to expand throughout “Jocal ikien province.” The revolutionary fo are also advancing to Kuling Liushang, summer resorts near Kin- in Kiangsi province. The helple condition of the Chinese militarists in the face of the victorious advance of the revolu- tion is very clearly reflected in the dispatch to the Sun which states that “the Nationalist government’s anti-Communist campaign in South China, which un the f of May, is making little progress < ee was b Poison Gas. BERLIN, May 21.— militarists in China statement recent! he Northern published a through London French authorities of Indo- China have intercepted a consign- ment of poison gas which was sent from Germany to the Nanking gov- ernment. All information relating to the subject of German supply of poison gas to the Nanking militarists in- dicates that the above charge can not be unfounded, despite the hyster- nials issued by the German foreign of: The incident, how- ever, throws another side light on the uation in China. The fact that the statement of the Northern miliarists was issued through Lon- ignificance. 300 SMASH ALA. JM GROW LAW BIRMINGHAM, Afa., May 2 Three hundred Negro and white unemployed workers packed the Trade Union Unity League hall yes- lay afternoon to form a Council ed and protest the Powers and Carr ompt te to the electric chair. lowed the hall nd_ necessitated The crowd ov into the stairwa: The crowd marched from the all to the park in a body. The meeting continued in the park jin utter defiance of the Jim Crow \laws barring Negroes from the park. Burns, organizer for the Trade {Union Unity League, and Tom |Johnson, organizer fur the Commu- There » the speake nout at the meet- the the for Thursday by Communist Party, to protest lynching terror in the South a attempt to legally lynch Powers and Carr in Atlanta, The Powe trial is May 27, ing called