The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 18, 1930, Page 3

| | —— DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1930 2 Page Three By EARL BROWDER. stonites find their point of unity (OR. a‘rising revolutionary move-| with the fake “lefts,” the Trotsky- ment, the most dangerous enemy| ists. Trotsky and his followers more of all'is the opportunists within the] and more discard their “left” masks Opportunists and India wo movement. Fundamental to the task| and show their of making a revolution, is the struggle against opportunism, the exposure of the opportunists, and| development than India, true opportunist fac On China, where the revolu- tion is in a much higher stage of Trotsky their complete elimination from all} also issues the slogan of Constituent Positions of influence. This is the| Assembly putting it up against the ‘first lesson of Bolshevism, which| slogan of “Soviets, as organs of } ‘was born, grew, and matured, in| power of the democratic dictator- {bitter struggle against opportunism| ship of workers and peasants.” * of all shades—open menshe @ the disguised variety know In regard to India, both varieties 'stonites and Cannonites, are reveal- | {ing their poisonous opportunist pol- | $icies. It is the duty of every revo- *Jutionary worker to learn to recog- nize the menshevist nature of their propaganda and slogans regarding India, as a first necessity in sup- porting the Indian revolution. Consider first the active pro ganda of the Lovestonites on Indi A short time ago they advertised a.street meeting, for which their principle slogan was “Demand Free- dom for Gandhi,” instead of warn- ing the workers that Gandhi repre- ents those who are negotiating at this moment the surrender of the lian revolution to British imper- falsm. In another meeting they prs forth as spokesmen of the In- dan revolution, Mr. S. N. Ghose, whose program is expressed in his ptblic statement that “Soon we hupe to have a resolution introduced iz both Senate and House asking *tke Government to recognize our right of belligerency,” because “In- da can become the greatest patron “of American exports”; Mr. William Fickens, a Negro intellectual who, atthe Frankfort Anti-Imperialist ,Gongress in 1929, declared against * the withdrawal of imperialist sold- fers from Africa; and Healy, a superannuated trade un- jon bureaucrat. They put forth the program of “creation of commit- tees representing the workers, pea- sants, students, intellectuals, small traders” as “the basis of that pop- ular organ of power—The Constitu- for deciding the fut- Their main slogan for India is the “free national de- mocratic state.” They base them- selves entirely upon the bourgeoisie, n as ‘of ‘opportunism in the U. S., Love-| ' | Timothy | expressed in their declaration that) “the entire nation with the excep- tion of a small minority stand be- hind the National Congress.” They are helping in every way to ex- n and| Trotsky descends to such depths of vulgarism as to declare of the sup- pressed masses of China that “when they awaken they strive to express their strength in numbers in politics through the medium of the universal suffrage.” On India the Trotskyists are discreetly vague as yet, al- though clearly indicating that they apply all their formulae for China also to India. | The programmatic unity of right and ‘left’ opportunists shows itself always when they touch the pro- blems of colonial revolutions, and is crystallized also in organizational connections with identical groups of renegades in those countries. Thus in China, the close collaborator of the right-winger Roy, Chen Tu-chou, | is also at the same time hailed by Trotsky himself as a disciple. In Mexico, the government employes headed by Diego Rivera, who as between the Communist Party and | their government salaries, chose | the latter, supports and is supported by both Cannon and Lovestone, Both groups have faith in nothing but the bourgeoisie in the colonial coun- | tries, and both groups make them- | selves a tail to the political kite of the bourgeoisie. The Trotskyites cover up their own surrender to the bourgeoisie in | India and China with “very left” phrases about the “dictatorship of the proletariat,” violent opposition to the slogan “democratic digtator- ship of workers and peasants,” and then practically replace both with the open bourgeois slogan of “Con- stituent Assembly.” The First Task of China-India. Revolution in India and China today has as its first task the com- pletion of the bourgeois-democratic revolution, that is, to carry out in India and China those measures which were the characteristic feat- ures of the transition from feudal- ism to capitalism —national inde- pendence, distribution of the land among the peasants, breaking the power of feudal elements, establish- ment of certain popular rights of pedite Gandhi in his plans = be-} tray the revolution. They even pro-| pagandize against the boycott of | the London Round Table Conference) revolution” in India and China can- set for October! They advocate) not be carried through by the bour- compromise with the native Princes.| geoisie. That class no longer has ‘They oppose the seizure of land by) the possibility of carrying out an tho peasants. They are, in short,) independent line, which would throw the political agents of the bourge-| it into war against the mighty im- oisie in the-question of India, just) perialist powers (struggle for na- as in every other principle political) tional independence), against the issue of the day. | feudal and landlord elements (agra- Where the Opportunists Meet. | rian revolution, distribution of the In the slogan of Constituent As-| land), and force it to lean upon the organization and individual liber- ties, But this “bourgeois-democratic ——ae sembly, the open right-wing Love-! awakening working class and pea- By HARRY GANNES. T= closest point of Wall Street’s empire to India is the Philippines, Every struggle against imperialism | 4m the Orient, whether in India, | China, the Dutch East Indies or| Indo-China, finds an enthusiastic response among the great majority of the 13,000,000 Filipinos, enslaved by. American imperialism. This unity of interest of the workers and peasants of India and the Philip- Pines is WEI! known to the American bosses, “When I was in the Dutch East Indies in 1925,” said Nicholas Roosevelt, a correspondent of the New York Times, and a Wall Street spokesman, testifying be- fore the Senate Insular Commit-) tee (Feb. 17, 1930) I discussed this point (independence of the Philippines) at considerable length with various people, and I have since talked it over with people familiar with conditions in India and the Malay States, and Korea, and elsewhere; and it seems to be the general impres- sion that the granting of inde- pendence to the Philippines—I might say, even talking of grant- ing independence to the Philip- pines—has its repercussions all through these other territories.” What repercussions, then, must ‘ Revolution, Not Salt “This shows Gandhi's adherents ¢ the manufacture of a pot ‘of salt at the Manu River. Gandhi and the Indian bourgeoisie are trying to divert the revolutionary will of the masses into harmless channels. But the revolutionary masses are breaking through these barriers and will wage an armed atruggzle against all exploiters, santry. For the colonial bourgeoisie, it is more profitable to come to terms with the imperialists, an with the landlords and feudalists, for the joint exploitation of the workers and peasants, And this is what the colonial bourgeoisie al- ways does. It fights against im- perialism only for better terms of surrender, and always is careful not to arouse the workers and peasants to struggle. Only the workingclass and peasanrty can and will carry out to a conclusion the fight for national independence and for the distribution of the land—that is, carry out the bourgeois-democratic revolution, The Constituent Assembly form of bourgeois class rule. period when the bourgeoisie is a revolutionary class, when it is a rising class engaged in the historical task of overthrowing feudalism, at is a Ina | Where Indian Masses Fight Imperialism By HARRISON GEORGE. such a time the Constituent Assem- bly is really a revolutionary mea- sure which carries society forward, and prepares it for the next stage in historical development—the pro- letarian dictatorship, and the build- ing of socialism, But today the bourgeoisie as a class, and there- fore its organs of class rule (Con- stituent Assembly, etc.), is a reac- tionary class, standing in the way of even the completion of the bour- geois-democratic revolution. Therefore, those classes which will and can carry through the bourgeois - democratic revolution (workers and peasants) must fight against the organs of bourgeois class rule, and not support them. They must set up their own rule. While this can be done only under the leadership of the workers over the peasantry (because of the lat- ter’s political backwardness and in- stability) this does not yet mean the immediate transition to the pro- letarian dictatorship. For this stage of the revolution, the Marxian pro- gram is that formulated by Lenin for Russia in 1905, “the democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry” exercised through their own, organs of power, the Soviets or councils. Both the open right-wingers (Lovestone, Brandler, Roy) and the false “lefts”. (Cannon, Trotsky), seize upon the outlived form of the bourgeois-democratic revolution, the Constituent Assembly, but they re- ject the actual, concrete embodi- ment of this revolution in the move- ment for the democratic dictatorship of proletariat and peasantry, and the agrarian revolution (denounced as the work of “bandits”!), Lovestone, Brandler, Roy, Can- non, Trotsky—one and all of the renegades from Communism, have passed over into the counter-revolu- tionary camp of the bourgeoisie, on all world issues before the working class. On India and China they betray with especial clearness their counter-revolutionary faces, Their program must be exposed, they must, be shown up as enemies of the working class, their ideas must be destroyed of all influence within the revolutionary movement. India and the Philippines there be in the Philippines when | the Indian masses not only talk of independence, but through .armed struggles, fight for it! For Gandhi and his stripe, the Filipino masses have the profound- est contempt, They know through experience that independence can be achieved only through armed struggle against the master class. The Philippine Proletarian Congress of Labor, with a membership of over 40,000, representing the most advanced scetion of the Filipino workers, have expressed their warmest sympathy and unity with the Indian masses in their strug- gles. Likewise, the National Pea- sants Confederation wholeheartedly supports the militant fight of the Indian peasants against British im- perialism, and its executioner, Mac- Donald, as well as against the “non- violent” representative of the big Indian bosses, Gandhi. The revolution in India takes place at a time when a severe crisis is sweeping through the Philippines. Thousands of Filipino peasants are being driven off their land to give way to imperialist plantation own- ers. The struggle for independence from American imperialism is grow- ing. This was admitted by the Governor-General Davis when he set his official watch-dogs against the revolutionary movement in the Phil- ippines. The Philippines has its Gandhis. Recall Gandhi’s words during the World War: “I would make India offer all her able-bodied sons as a sacrifice to the Empire at this crit- ical moment,” and see “the exact parallel in Roxas’ speech (Insular Committee, Jan. 15, 1930): “We or- ganized a regiment of 25,000 Filip- inos and offered it to the President of the United States for actual service... Our loyalty and grateful- ness can not be doubted.” Roxas, Osmena, Guevara, Gabaldon and Aguinaldo in the Philippines repre- sents the same class as Gandhi, Nehru, Petal & Co. represent in In- dia—the native bourgeois who profit from the imperialist exploitation of the great mass of workers and pea- sants, There is a great similarity be- tween the status of the Philippines, as an American colony, and India as a British colony. The Filipino masses have been fed with “promi- ses” quite as liberally as have the Indian workers and peasants, As in India, in the Philippines it is the native capitalists and large land- owners who have worked together with the imperialist exploiters to frustrate the revolutionary strug- gles of the masses. As in India, the proto-types of Gandhi do not want independence but a form of dominion status within the empire, while the masses fight for nothing short of immediate, absolute and unconditional independence. . 7 Crisis Hits Sweden; Workers Pay STOCKHOLM (IPS)—The occasion of the present government yor™ “seWagpur (Port) 2 \. 0 Ban alorek y, —‘MySoreo ' y iKatikal (Fr) sy & é mee Fr. 500000 Z POPULATION ‘© W Trincomali Ss CEYLON !00 000 Te 500000" Colom! Scale of Miles LESS THAN 100 000 0 300 600 900 A.—Northwest Frontier Province, directly ruled by the Anglo- Indian government, where sharp fighting has occurred between 14,000 | ° peasant Afridi tribesmen who marched on June 6 to within a few hun- dred yards of the defenses of Peshawar. Indian troops mutinied at Peshawar a month ago. A great street battle took place there May 3 when a British non-com shot two children. aot Res 1 ao] | te Wr -— HOUSANDS of miles of sea and ae e od Varkand G land divide them, but between the ; SP Nee, 2c H LN Az six workers facing the electric chair| J Eee be? ee eins SO in Atlanta, Georgia, for “inciting insurrection,” and 82 workers facing| death at Meerut, India, for “conspir- ing to deprive His British Majesty, George the Fifth, of sovereignty over Indi a bond woven in the blood of tk ld proletariat. King Capital and King Georg In Atlanta, for organizing the wor ers, black and white, into fighting trade unions under the red banner of the Comm y. In Meerut, India, for Hindu andj Moslem into revolutionary trade| unions. In Atlanta, the six include both black and white ers. In Meerut, both whi nd b: n, Brit- ish and Indian ty-two. So long keep the e among the thir-} King Capital could and Negro worker te of Georgia and all the South pitted] against one another, the bosses] |could exploit both at starvation| wages and speed them to death with the stretch- So long as the British rulers of India could keep Hindu lem workers fight- ing ea and native capitalism too, could drink the blood of the 300,000,000 workers 2 nts of India. India is the keystone of British] imperialism. The South was sup- posed to be the “strikeless section” | The revolutionary ca and of India these monstruous The prisoner: which has that shall never unded the bug | call retreat! Why Are They Poor? Supposed wise guys say that the 1—Fort Shabkadar, base for British airplane raids over the whole | Indians are poor because the coun- district. d British troops do not dare to venture far into the country around Pesh- awar, but make punitive raids. 2.—Charsadda, and 3, Prang, where villages were surrounded by British police and infantry and many arrests made. It is in this territory that the “Red Shirts,’ a peasant | per square mile. And why isn’t the) anti-imperialist organization, are active. B—Punjab province, home of the Sikhs, who have been used as mercenaries by the British government, but are now considered very unreliable. They have demonstrated against the rulers. Delhi, capital of the British government in India, was the scene of a fierce battle May 27 in which 50 scabs and strikers were hurt in a cloth mill strike. Amritsar is the scene of the famous massacre of several hundred workers shot down by General Dyer several years ago. Lahore has had huge demonstrations by anti-imperialists this year. C.—Native state of Kashmir, second largest in India, whose ruler has frequently distinguished himself by royal scandals with wine, wo- men and song and who takes orders absolutely from Britain. D—Bengal presidency. Calcutta is the largest city, a huge tex- The planes bomb the natives and are fired on by riflemen. | try is thickly populated. W! y, then are there poor and hungry people in Georgia, with 50 people per square mile, when [ndia has 177 starved worse since England people of England than those of India? re the pioneers of the] has 650 people per square mile! The Indian masses are poor be- cause they 1, both by i Indian cap- 2 of Georgia are} poor because they are robbed by capitalists. 1928 marked the emergence of the Indian working class on to the field of revolutionary struggle, the most} important event of that year being] the great Bombay textile strike of| 150,000 workers who built up their} Girni Kamgar (Red Flag) Union. 1929 marked the beginnin: revolutionary struggle of ers of the South in the U. W the battles of Gastonia textile work ers, that of Elizabethtown, the| street-car strike of New Orleans.} The National Textile Workers Union| was born. King and Boss. In India, the Vice-King (Vice-| Roy), Lord Irwin, declares by royal} order that his will is law. He bans} strikes, In the South of the U.S.A. the Chamber of Commerce and the mill owners flaunt even their own} laws, to crush strikes, They shoot! down workers (like Ella May), they| lynch them legally as in Gastonia) or illegally, as in Sherman, Texas. In the South, the American Fed- eration of Labor head, Green, sells) out the street-car strike of New| Orleans. N. M. Joshi of India tried the same with the Bombay textile! strike. In India, the holy faker Gandhi, comes before the masses in the dis- guise of a friend and s: “Follow me against British imperialism.” But he leads them into a fight for} salt instead of higher wages and) he tells them that under no cir-| cumstances must they defend them-| selves, | In Elizabethtown, the “progres-| sive” Muste group of the A. F. of | | L. appeared as the “friends” of} | the workers and said: “Follow us, |we are against the mill owners.” But they led the workers into an “agreement” to accept a wage cut land betrayed them to be shot down | power, ar From Meerut to Atlanta by the mill bosses and sheriffs, tell- ing them: “You must not defend yourselves,” The Indian workers rallied in enormous strike struggles, in tex tiles, in steel mills, on the railways. They fight the mighty British Em- pire, as a strike for higher wages? sh imperialism. thirty-two were rounded up in all India, the best and bravest of the leaders, and taken to Meerut for trial. The Brit- ish “Labor” government came to it continues their per- the interest of British secution onia verdict darken- ing Carolina, six more workers are seized at Atlanta, Georgia. And A. F. of L, officials on the Grand Jury in the prosecutor’s office demand they be sent to death in the electric chair. They, some of them, are ac- cused of the “crime” of asking Wm, Green, president of the American Federation of “Labor,” questions! “Labor” Persecutes Workers. N Meerut, through the months, the “trial” drags on. It is a long, an endless affair, since March 1929, MacDonald’s “labor” government is the prosecutor, as the A. F. of L, is the prosecutor at Atlanta. In Meerut, the 32 lie in fetid cells, deprived of every human comfort, chained among filth. In Atlanta, the six are subject to petty persecu- tions, searched, watched, threatened, and. beaten. There are many deeper reasons why American workers should un- derstand the Indian revolution and the leaders of it who lie in jail at Meerut. There are other reasons why American workers should de- fend the 32 prisoners of Meerut fully as firmly as they defend the six at Atlanta. But these words are written to bring clearly to the minds of the American working class that Meerut and Atlanta are not far apart. That the class strug- gle is world-wide, and that the sol- idarity of the workers must be as wide as the world. S. SAKLATVALA , nevertheless against it in the city of Hyderabad. tile, iron, and railroad center. Scene of innumerable bitter strikes in recent years, and some fighting during the present movement. 5.— Chechuat, where peasants fought the police with rifles on June 10 and (6) Balislai, a village where 17 were hurt when police fired into a crowd last week. 7.—Chittagong, where well armed and disciplined bands of | revolutionavies captured British arsenal last month, and escaped with arms and ammunition. E.—Largest native principality, Hyderabad, where native ruler holds country for British imperialism, with several demonstrations | F.—Bombay Presidency, heavily industrialized section like Calcut- ta, with textile industry spread into smaller, towns like Sholapur, where last month workers drove police clear out and held city until large forces | crisis in Sweden is the fact that the Swedish parliament has rejected the government proposal to increase the important duties on grain. The deeper lying reason for the crisis. is the economic difficulties ex- perienced in Sweden as the result of the general world economic crisis. The capitalists in Sweden are attempting, like their colleagues in other countries, to place the burden of the crisis on the shoulders of the work- ing masses, by intensified rationalization, dismissals and wage reduc- tions. The best means of accomplishing this is with the assistance of a “left wing” government. The newspapers recently bought up by the match-king Kreuger are now making propaganda for a new “labor” government, although in fact the Kreuger group belongs to the extreme right wing of Swedish capitalism. On their part the social democrats have done everything in accordance with the wishes of their masters. A definite develop- ment towards the right has taken place since the defeat of 1928, and the closest connections have been maintained with the government against which the social democrats have been supposed to fight. In the trade union movement, revolutionary elements are being expelled | and the workers in the paper industry being jockeyed into certain defeat. The proposal of the leader of the bankrupt. right wing gov- ernment, the admiral and industrialist Lindman to the King of Sweden to entrvet ihe sacial damoocrats with the government is therefore quite logical, of European troops were brought. Poona is a British military center, where Gandhi is kept until details of his sell-out arg complete. Baroda is center of a small native state, surrounded by British Indian territory, and the only one whose ruler has in recent years shown anti-imperialist tendencies, Nothing has been heard of him, however, during the present movement. Bom- bay itself has been the scene of the largest textile strikes, one last year, and a center of Gandhi agitation, with raids on the Wadia salt works (4) on Bombay island. The last demonstration, last week, saw 65,000 textile workers on political strike. Goa is Portuguese territory, very small. Madras is the only city in the southern districts which joined wi the independence movement. Southern India is mostly non-indust and is the heart of the most reactionary sects of the Hindu religion. Most of the town represented on the map have been scenes of de- monstrations. Meerut, in the North, is famous for the Meerut case, the trial and imprisonment of many labor leaders arrested in Red raids. Yanaon, Pondicherry and Katilal are French owned towns on the | east coast, points of resistance when the French-English war comes, and remnants of a once powerful French empire in India. Your Bayonets Will Not Stop Him! The “Socialist” MacDonald, acting for his imperialist masters, rushes troops and gunboats to India, hoping to crush the revolutionary masses. But MacDonald may well tremble before the might of the ris- ing revolutionary giant. PORTO RIGANS IN * |sections, lyear around. N.Y, STARVING 150,000 Workers in Poverty and Disease NEW YORK—One hundred and | fifty thousand undernourished, dis- dden Porto Rican workers jand peasants, who have paid $40 apiece to ipping companies for passage to New York to flee unem- ployment at home, face starvation in New York | Declaring at the Porto Ricans area ed people, Dr. Haven Emerson, chairman of the Welfare Council’s health work, pointed out that their plight in Porto Rico has been aggravated by American occu- pation of the Caribbean island. Na- tives used to have their own bits of land with gardens and chickens, but now the encroachment of the big sugar and tobacco plantations has driven them off, leaving them noth- ing to live by save their bare hands as agricultural labore Porto Rico, with 1,500,000 on a {small island, is more crowded than any part of the United States ex- cept certain New England industrial Bue it is estimated that only 150,000 have paying jobs the Even at crop time, the peak season, only 340,000 are employed. But after the cutting the sugar industry lays off 60 per cent of its workers. The tobacco industry has reduced its workers by one-third in a few years, explain Porto Ricans living in New York. Coffee and fruit are other large plantation industries, Some estimates place the daily wage }at 50 cents tor men and 36 cents for women and children under 16, Others say that the average wage in all branches of industry is 10 cents a day. The sugar workers are especially hard hit by the gen- eral crisis in West Indian sugar, even though the American tariff does not apply to Porto Rico. Governor Theodore Roosevelt, himself, in a speech in New York to Porto Rican societies, admitted there are’ 200,000 sufferers from malaria and 600,000 who have hook- worm and that the death rate is 4% times that in the Unit This is the record of Ame perialism, which prides health work in Haiti, Pa: other tropical countries: it jugated. Only one out of three chil- dren has a chance to go to school, Roosevelt said, though 40 per cent of the budget is spent on schools, By SHAPURJI SAKLATVALA, | "THE British imperialists are wor- | “ried to death: the revolutionary | spirit of the people of India is ris- |ing. Conservative and Liberal cir- | cles are openly jubilant that at such | a crisis the Labor Government is jin charge of the Empire. The un- | animity of the Labor Parliamentary | Party in actual action is all the | more valuable on account of the hypocritical words of the British Independent Labor Party. Lord Irwin, the present Viceroy, has a reactionary policy almost worse than any of the previous vice- |roys. He has certified every Act | that the Indian Assembly has re- jected, he has perpetuated the out- rageous mockery of law called the Meerut trial of trade union leaders; he has inflicted upon Indian work- ;ers the Trades Disputes Act and the Whitley Commission. | | Prison Without Trial. He has ordered imprisonment, without trial or with mock trials, of workers’ representatives and strikers all over the country, and he and MacDonald combined to- gether have sanctioned the taking of human life of the working-class | people on a more extensive scale than was done during Baldwin’s Government. And the Independent Labor Party} | has still got the audacity to make} | their Indian friends believe that this} | Viceroy is to be looked upon as| more democratic than others. The} Independent Labor Party pretends| | to pass resolutions in favor of In-| | dia’s independence, and yet recom-} | mends the trickery of the Round) Table Conference also. Fenner| | Brockway and all Independent La-| bor Party members who have got | friends amongst the Indian bour-! geois politicians inside or outside| the Indian National Congress, are} continually writing letters to per-| suade them to enter into negotia-! tions with the Labor Government at| the Round Table Conference. They want the Indians to believe that a ruthless and murderous gov- ernment, by a little friendly discus- sion around a conference table, will give up their imperialist conspiracy and will agree to India’s freedom. Fenner Brockway and Maxton} know very well that this Round! Table Conference will be composed! of representatives of the British’ House of Lords and the present) House of Commons, one hundred} per cent of whom are in favor of} Empire. It will have Indian Prinees, enting the highest and strongest capitalist interests of employers, money-lenders and Jand owners, and notorious Right Wing Indian Trade Union leaders, beloved of Indian capitalists, and then Fenner Brock- way and Company want some In- dian Left-Wing pretenders from the old Congress Party, who represent population, Maxton and Fenner Brockway are imaking every effort to support | Mac-Donald and Lord Irwin in dra jing Gandhi into this game of the Rovnd Table Conference; they know | that Gandhi has stoutly refused to , Support or to identify himself with the struggle of the Mcerut prison- ers, or of the textile workers of Bombay or of the Great Indian Pe- ninsula Railway strikers or the jute ei it will have Indian Liberals repres-| 8 per cent of India’s enfranchised| it “Labor” Swindlers mill strikers or with the Gharwali Regiment. The Independent Labor Confer- ence pretended to reserve the right to oppose the MacDonald Govern- On the position in the Colo- nies they are in the same despicable conspiracy with the imperialists as is MacDonald and Lord Irwin. When a fighting deputation of workingclass representatives was arranging in London to see Wedg- wood Benn and to expose this crue! policy in the Meerut trial, Maxton and Brockway, who both pretended to be members of the Meerut De- fense Committee, sabotaged the movement of the bona fide working class deputation, and a dishonorable bogus Independent Labor Party deputation helped to screen Wedg- wood Benn from workingclass ex- posure, Since the pretense of the Inde- pendent Labor Party that they are opposed to MacDonald’s imperial- ism, literally pools of blood have been flowing from the slaughtered colonial workers, and the Independ- ent Labor Party gang of politica! importers does not even challenge a vote and oppose MacDonald’s Gov- ernment. ment. Disgraceful Resolution. In order tq throw dust into thc eyes of the Indians, Brockway and Maxton manoeuvred a resolution on India which was of such a disgrace ful imperialist character that no‘ only the MacDonald Cabinet sup ported it but even the Conservative imperialists openly praised it and backed it up in the House of Com mons. While the London branch o the Indian National Congress threw. an open challenge to Maxton that he was engaged in low tactics o: a sham fight against MacDonald on imperialist problems, he barefaced]:. admitted that he was confining hi opposition only to such picaresqu: questions as may increase his pop ularity and votes in Great Britain; and as for the murders of Negroes Indians, or Chinese workers, he wa not moved by any principle of Sou- cialism or humanity. Armed Labor Faker | J. Ramsay MacDonald, prime minister of England for the labor party, and consmander in chief of j Aer army and navy, which he uses ruthlessly against any of his im- perialist masters’ revolting colon- tal slaves. Under his orders doz t ens of Indian peasants and work- ers have been murdered, ani hundreds imprisoned, —