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) CALCUTTA, India —(By Mail) —Some 36,000 jute workers By EHUGIE BOLSOVER
‘mployed in Calcutta mills have won concessions from the LONDON, England.— General license’ was the term used by i
i) Owertul Indian Jute Mills association in a mass strike move- the government in the House of Commons last week in announc- cS;
» .ent for higher wages. ing permission for recruiting of Britons for Baron Mannerheim S ae
ide The workers, whose wages were White Guard forces in Finland. A general license to fight against pa
i; » recently cut by 8 percent, have won the Soviet Union. It is a good term, for it expresses the attitude al
al ac out a 10 percent wage increase from of the government admirably. Pp
S| i the association. Men are being recruited for Mannerheim. Airplanes are oh
a r; Although strikers remained being sent for use against the Soviet Union. Supplies are being x
: T r [ peaceful, police forces in the strike : sent. Propaganda is being stepped into high gear. That certainly &
Be i U ni ey S areas were heavily*reinforced, use is a general license. —
F made of the Defense of India Or- aoe ee people ee oan Sears 2? nes Poe ees oe it
: | om ment SEES 5) AE strikers and eerie Seensd o ecaitne Since fe cesct thet Tabor Rea oe
a3 break their resistance. = ae : : > | in Smith square — only a stone’s | ers threatened drastic party ac- ae
zi Notices uene ccmved on 10 per | (PEREHCT PROPAGANDA: This is how the ‘scoop picture throw from the houses of parlia-| tion against members who sup- ae
Magistrate Defers sons, some members of the Indian| shown above was described by W. H. Wagner of Yale uni- | ment — another office was opened | ported him. a
Decision In City National Congress, others connect-| versity in a letter to Life last week. Accompanying caption | 2CTOss the Thames in the heart The official Labor candidate, es
ed with labor organizations where- de: GaN bird’s-eye view? of the Finnish front anes blinding of the working class district of | backed by the huge Labor machine E
Car Dealer’s Case by they were prevented from en- reads: I ues eae 8 Fi e ki : hi Southwark — a committee room | and the entire national press ex- 1S
: : : tering “any factory or coolie line| Snowstorm. in the oreground are 18 Finnish skiers in white | for Charles Searson, Labor and | cept the Daily Worker, polled 5,285 a,
a Found guilty of posting signs} or any other property of any jute parkas huddled behind a snowbank ready to surround and | anti-war candidate in the South- | votes. 20
“| orejudicial to the effective mill in the district or to associate | annihilate a Russian division (their fourth this week). To | wark byelection. Southwark is one of the small- ae
‘ 5 j with or correspond with or by any | their left is a column of Russian tanks that were destro ed b A little later a third office was | est divisions in the country. It is
Horosecution of the war, Fran- | other means disseminate any opin- a Finnish schoolboy. The snow-covered mound to fee sat opened down in the great dockland | calculated that if Searson’s vvote BS
P sis R, Turnley, owner of the} ion about jute mill labor for a per- z ask we lind % ene’ ehildr d area of Silvertown — a committee | is repeated in every division — a 15
i Mot B Sixth iod of six months from Nov. 14.” hides the 1€5 of live men, six workers’ children, and a | room for Harry Pollitt, Communist conservative estimate—this would =
- § ovor | ureau, Six BRYSON Despite these intimidatory tac- one-armed rheumatic old woman (sole support of a family of | candidate in the Silvertown by-| produce well over a milion votes x
3 and Main street, was remanded tics strikers remained solid. twelve) who were machine-gunned by a Red air fleet. Just election. against war and against Manner- a
; pwo weeks for sentence when Bikeere nh dadin Seoilax asic| beyond the woods, the Red troops are retreating wildly from ip Souler, Senrscn stood R25 heim. ee : =
“yhe appeared before Magistrate | tation against the war is increas-| Suomussalmo toward the Soviet border, without shoes, uni- OTe eu ne OF ee mene fg a dette sen
BH. S. Wood in Vancouver | ing Fane eemietierear Some aredeanine che Taras oa ie es Germany, but also for refusal to | dreds of thousands have not been k
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2 police court Tuesday. Thirty thousand attending an to appease their mad hunger. (They haven't eaten since the reat aS oe uae ere Agee Hue ene the light ¢
") Magistrate Wood found the signs anti-imperiaist rally at Nagpir ezarist regime). The eyewitness reporters in the snow-filled | announced last week. that is cast on the war. In the =
"were, in his opinion; prejudicial! endorsed a resolution declaring | shell hole nearby are Harold Denny, Webb Miller and Mr. X Sxilhoneb! st iwas incredibly, dit a || 1astiwar st was le yeate SEOT £
and told Turnley that he ought to that the goal of independence (the source of reliable r eports) Tia he ge Sais: bonnes ficult to carry out an election an anti-war candidate darea to 8
‘4 consider the views of others, since| “Can only be achieved by the de- i i fr th : b campaign in blackout conditions, stand and then he polled 1,300. t
“) Canada is at war, and refrain from struction of both imperialism hanging from the pine trees was rought down by a member 3
‘posting further signs likely to| 2nd fascism, by the victory of the of the Helsinki Girls Foils Club (a junior member). The e =
%be prejudicial German people over. their fascist | camouflaged igloo on skis near the lake is the Finnish army ni ue nce eG e fh 4 La G 5
| “Tf you do that, I will be disposed sees by fee or eee ae ve field headquarters, and the group of naked men near the igloo :
Fito suspend sentence,’ said the mag- Pr = Seana TY a eee | ore Red deserters from Georgia, who report the sun never In Silvertown, Harry Pollitt was, the great arms center, Sheffield, a
. vistrate. an Erance, 5 5 : 3 si = aa : ighting i e ii ins: . i za
eee - emashing of the chains of colon- | Shines in the Soviet Union. The fr esh ski tracks in the middle ae eee Se Dee ee spelieeitensies ee honeiceeee in
| Turnley, who defended himself) ja) slayery, by the victory of the foreground were made by Colonel X and his adjutant, who are | ; 5 : Bes eae) in
Niast week on the charge, that he| ¢ Sott ts bombaher Mt ie eles for fh = me ton which stopped despatch of | ulive of the Labor party met ‘
i imlawfully did publish writing ners of democracy and free- ce) o bomb the urmansk railroad 10r the late city edition. arms against the Bolsheviks. with a hostile reception from the eS
B iiksiy to be preyudibiall to tuelck: om. The snow-covered figure on the white horse leading the white- While the 14,000 votes cast for| trades and labor council when ic
| fective prosecution of the war,| Most significant are the daily ar-| clad ski troops in the blinding snowstorm in the struggle for | the offcial Labor candidate (Gn he supported the war and said
7 namely, ‘The big baboons commit| rests and extensive house searches | democracy is Baron Mannerheim.” 1935 the Labor canddate polled | Be hoped Maunerheim was vic- re
you to war, then call on you mon-| 35 attempts are made to stifle all 18,000) showed the still powerful torious. =
») keys to vote for their manage-] Public discussion on the war- = influence of the Labor party lead- Of 18 delegates who spoke only as
* ment? and ‘We may get -business These arrests and house searches Senate @usts Cackhin ership, the fact that the vote fell | two supported Morrison. ae
from the war but we have no busi- | have been aimed primarily against ? 4,000, coupled wth the vote of close In Lianelly, a Welsh industrial =
ness in it,” said he would in future | working class leaders, Communists 2 to 1000 given Pollitt, demonstrated | area, the divisional Labor party
use the signs only for his used car} and those suspected of sympathy rence OoOmmiunis @ that the workers are increasingly | conference held recently passed
business. with them. In Bengal it is re- Le breaking away from this influence. | 2 resolution attacking Sir Walter
In the trial last week City Prose-| Ported that hundreds of arrests + e ex The fascist candidate polled 160 | Citrine, whose notorious support
) cutor Oscar Orr said the first sign, | Were Made ast month, left-wing lit votes, for Mannerheim could not be
| if taken by itself, was a fair com- , Crature was seized, ‘suspects’ were n ensi : & 1 y ] 1e8S Gentral issue of the campaign stomached. The resolution de-
+ mentary on political situation to- rounded up for detention and for was the Finnish conflict. In a hard clared that Citrine had “become
a and ves aa interjection by | Guestioning. PARIS, France.—Significant admissions of the growing ac-| fight, Pollitt dealt vigorous blows = podens eo aU
| Magistrate Wood admitted that it V. D. Tripathi, secretary of the | tivity of the French Communist par i ion! against his Labor and fascist op- ondon, Trades council; FOPre
depended on what side one was on.| Forward Bloc and a member of | yn ao aay = wank es ee aoe despite Ue persecution ere P| senting 300,000 workers, refused x
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Turnley's defense was that he| the United Provinces ,Congress | Gyjnoopire } = tOHATY PARers “There is unity between the ED RSH SOMO SES ete -
felt entitled to criticize the gov- | War Council responsible for or- s i Leafl " 3 the Tory, Liberal, Labor and Fas- E82 Soviet Union, but at the 7.
| ernmental defects as he saw them ganizine anti-war meetings, has SREIEIS SONGSRIE TQ SiRaeS ute cist lenders =F Sener the working Same SQESEOS ib geese D Sel ONS
and to influence the electorate to| been arrested for ‘sedition.’ Fe ash S scl packets and match boxes, L’Hu- oe . g, tion protesting imprisonment of
ff QReDeeSsze OC?tae eee = 5 class of Britain and against the | trade unionists by the French
vote out the present government. Offices of Madras Congress So- ee manive sent tothe) front an cifar Sovie Union,’ he told the dockers overnment ‘
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This week Turnley had one of | cialist party have been searched Democrats, Cate || voxes and packets of cough drops | “The wives, mothers and children =x meeting at Cambridge Univer- 5
ue See boards paluted Eee and papers seized. Similar searches Guare En Pact are among the propaganda actiy-| of the men in the armed forces | sity Socialist Club by a 118-0 vote 1
weet a nee cae that have taken pace in Allahabad. | ities described in ‘Gringoire.’ The | While millions of pounds goes to | passed a resolution demanding 1
nieans ae ee ee In the Punjab, Abdul Aziz, presi- STOCKHOLM. Sweden. || paper calls for further measures|Mannerheim. When a blackleg that no British volunteers or reg-
; dent of Rawalpindi Congress com- Despatch 3 at hee against the “party of treason” | tries to break your strike, you try | ular troops be sent to Mannerheim. 3
mittee, has been arrested under P : 5 eEC EIS €Y€ || which “is always one hour, one| ‘to break him. The Finnish gov- Meanwhile the government's re- s
Peace Plea Made the Defense of India Act for mak- from Helsinki reporting that || idea, one trick in advance of the ernment was the blackleg Cham- | fusal to allow the Daily Worker to L
2 ing a ‘seditious’ speech. And the the leadership of the Social police.’ berlain used to try to break the | send reporters to Finland is being
STOCKHOLM, Sweden. — Thirty | same act has been used to convict Pp Angihes aeYiclo da Aig Sacaa pac workers’ power in the Soviet | sreeted by protests from promin- &
organizations representing 500,000|two leaders of the Moslem Ah- Democratic party has || per says: = Union.” ent officials of the National Union z
Swedish women are sending mes-|rar party to terms or six and nine iy ee ; Throughout the country there | of Journalists and from, many
reached a formal agreement “ is Z :
sages to ‘women’s organizations | months respectively for speeches Z : oe ie ee = eee eee ue are signs of widespread opposi- | trade union, labor and Gemocratic =
throughout the world, urging that | which the government considers with the pro-fascist Finnish ree eae ese ee nue ee tion to aid for Mannerheim. In | organizations. 5S
they bring pressure on their gov-|“prejudicial to the recruitment Civic Guard show how com- || those working Bey ae pene 3
ernments to take the initiative to | campaign.” In Madras, seeveanan- : 5 a : 5
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ie Sonam perane tasen | pletely fe Finnish peoele | aise on a wee eme|LQDOY In Birmingham :
has alsc been arrested for making ave Rec etray' : y Ses (eeprocecnine Menemerom iowa ae y
an anti-war speech. . || Social Democratic ‘leaders’ || tivities diminishing, they are act- e nae 5
In the State of Bhopal, the De-|| into the hands of the White || yany increasing.” : Re udiates ( hamberlain ;
fense of India Act has been involk- Guard forces of Baron Man- p =
Ve z ‘ wet ed to prohibit all meetings, proces- nerheim PARIS F waa : =
i Cm mane iemoees | sions and political activities, For : 7 er Belden BIRMINGHAM. England.—The whole Birmingham L er
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: = R : D 8) U G LAS: preach of the order members of the A formal declaration is- || Senate last week voted unanimous- : Sy ae TRS : & bo 5
a : : = ointl Son : : movement is united in a firm stand against any collaboration s
si5 @e | local Congress Working Commit- sued jointly by the Social ly to eject Senator Marcel Cachin,| ii) Pri Minister Chamberlai d rt for the ¢ .
@SEY- 55 77. : tee have been arrested and jailed.|| Democrats and the Civic || Communist leader and former edi- ments ae cee policy ee s
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. Sees z Pass This Pa On! Cue last” week: permits tor of ”Humanite. Birmingham Trades council rec-, to distribute 200 tickets for CGham- =
SS per On- Social Democrats to become Cachin testified for an hour be-| ently refused, by majority vote, to berlain’s meeting among trade un- I
members of the Civic Guard, fore the Senate investigating com-| associate itself with the Chamber- ionists. The executive committee 2
allows Civic Guards to join mittee before the action depriving | lain meeting here last month, fol- | decided 7-5 not to associate itself AS
the Social Democratic party him of his legislative office. Action lowing similar decisions of the Bir- with the meeting. This decision so rE
our F ast h ag 2 against Cachin coincided with pas- mingham Borough Labor party, its | amazed the pro-Chamberlain ele d
} ] 4 ance The Civic. Guard took a sage in the Chamber of Deputies of council group, and the trades coun- | ments that they made every effort it
leading part in erushing the a bill approving the government’s ci executive committee. ta get the meeting to reverse the d
workers’ overnment in ouster of Communists from gov- As a counter-move to the Cham-| decision, assuring delegates that
to secure a copy of 1917 ate the lives of ernment positions throughout the, berlain meeting, the Birmingham | Chamberlain's meeting was a non- r
i . 100 000 Tag oe country. working class planned to mark | party town meeting with no polit- -
4 ) innish workers and : : Chamberlain’s visit here by a day | ical significance.
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G Nn OSCOW | DEDSEUS, Wes eclive Ue an order stmpping French citizen- of demonstrations against the in- Walsgai Bisse Moles aS BOL Lo
- cuting workers when the ship from Maurice Thorez, general tolerable conditions being imposed | and exposed the real objects of the
| White Guards regaine d secretary of the Communist arty by; the national) Eovernment ins mneetiney celated) | Champs ee
| eae e * | conduct of the imperialist war. anti-working class history. Signifi- z
P At the trades council meeting a|cant was the stand taken by sev-

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