India’s revered leader, Mohandas K. Gandhi (center, bare chest)
stands among Moslem refugees at the Purana Qila camp where
they are awaiting transportation to Pakistan. Many of the
~ §0,000 refugees crowded around him, cheering him and trying
to teuch his garments.

Who supplied the arms?

Report from India

—BOMBAY.

searches lead to the discovery of hundreds of un-

_ W ELL-ARMED bands in jeeps attack refugee trains,

licensed arms and quantities of ammunition in every

important Indian city. It is India’s shame and tragedy, the

legacy of the hatred bred and fostered by centuries of British
‘rule. But how does all this happen, from where do all the
arms come? All the enquiries I have made in this connection
Show that behind this large-scale appearance of arms all

over India is a.deeply laid and
eunning British plan.

During the war, after the end
of 1941, Indian arms were con-
centrated in two types of de-
pots; one in the ordinary ord-

mance depots, run by Indian
Army Ordnance Corps, which
used to supply the armies
fighting Japan, the second in
highly secret dumps, the loca-
tion of which was known to

few top officers in the British-

staffed GHQ; these were meant
to be used for guerilla fighting
im case Japan occupied a part
-. or the' whole of India.

My information is that these
British officers in 1946, with the
coming to India of the Cabinet
Mission, planned and carried out
a considerable illegal sale of

_ arms, particularly in Bengal, the
Punjab, the Central Provinces
and Hyderabad, to the Princes
and to both Hindu and Muslim
reactionary communalists in In-
dia, old agents of the British
who have always been their

_ trusted allies.

To a certain extent, these arms
were sold from the secret dumps,

which are still operated directly
by the staff of Field Marshal

_ Auchinleck, Supreme Command-
er, and not by the GHQ, Indian
Army; or GHQ, Pakistan Army.

The rest of these arms were
Sold from ordinary ordnance
stores, through men who had
no scruples about making money
where they could or men who
gia it consciously, knowing full
well it would help to provoke
carnage and division among the
common people.

It is also a fact that in the
name of helping Pakistan as
against India, the British suc-
ceeded in getting the help of a
number of Muslim officers who
had opted for Pakistan but had
not yet been transferred there.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1947

F COURSE, the sellers of

arms did different things in
different places, which look con-
tradictory but in fact are con-
sistent parts of a unified plan
to set India ablaze.

@ In the far North-West from .

the arms-bases in Rawalpindi
and Peshawar, agents both of
the Nawab of Bahawalpur and
the big landlords (like the Pir
of Manki Sharif) got plenty of

.arms which went to arm Mus-

lim National Guards; so did cer-
tain influential Sikh and Hindu
toadies. ta

© For ‘the belt of Sikh States

(Patiala, Faridkot) and the Hin-
du States of Central Rajputana
(Alwar, Bharatpur), Delhj was
the main source
bought both legally -and_ille-
gally); and these provided the
arms that led to the emergence
of big armed gangs of Akalis
and Jats in the districts of the
Eastern Punjab.

@ In Calcutta arms were sold
indiscriminately to both sides,
Hindu Sabha elements (big
black marketeers, who now arm-
ed with Sten guns and rifles
their goonda gangs that for-
merly had only lathis and dag-
gers) and Muslim communalists
(who did the same).

© In the Central Provinces
arms were sold illegally both
to agents of Hyderabad State
and to local Muslims and Hin-
dus, particularly to the small
minority who look to the Nizam
for salvation, Similar was the
case in Poona.

All told, considerable quanti-
ties of Sten guns, apart from
jeeps, Lewis guns and machine
guns, are involved in this care-
fully prepared conspiracy to
plunge India into bloodshed and
chaos.

A scientific stool-pigeon

By DYSON CARTER

ELIEVE it or not, science

has been called in to help in-
dustry’s stool-pigeons, And the
real laugh here is that a super-
scientific staff of stoolies is
being developed not to spy on
the workers, but to check up
on the guys in the front of-
fice. Top foremen, production
managers, efficiency experts
and all the favored coming un-
der the scrutiny of secret oper-
atives ...and they don’t know
it!

The new management spy
program was started in a small
way back in 1927. It was a

‘hush-hush scheme worked out

at the Harvard Business School.
Funds were supplied by one of
the big monopolies, Western
Electric. Lately the Yale Uni-
versity Labor Management
Center has joined thé plot. Wor-
kers will get some chuckles

out of what’s going on since the

professors started
Sherlock Holmes
Hoover.

In this system, the snoopers
are real life-size anthropolo-
gists, scientists wearing half a
dozen degrees after their
names, They work for the men
behind the scenes, the finance
capitalists. Their job is to see
if-any of the in-between bosses
are thinking dangerous thoughts.

Is the sales manager being
tempted by a bigger salary with
a rival company? Is the employ-
ment office boss really trying
to sneak non-union workers in-
to the plant, or does he get
along too well with the CIO?
Maybe the-executives in. produc-
tion actually believe the work-
ers need holidays with pay.

imitating
and Edgar

- Such treasonable attitudes are

subversive, and they are going
to be ferreted out by the new
Spy squad.

These professors of super-
sleuthing are away above us-

(arms were

ing familiar stool techniques.
They don’t hang around wash-
rooms and union’ halls. They
dress and talk like big shots,
and mingle at the clubs and
golf courses with the poor, un-
suspecting management. WNo-
body can get: wind of what
they are up to because they
use scientific third-degree out-
fits like the Interaction Chron-
ograph,

With this machine hidden
away in a desk or brief case,
the anthropologist-stoolie car-
ries on an innocent conversa-
tion with his victim. Every
word, attitude, reaction and
pause is recorded. Because the
device has been tested on thous-
ands of executives and foremen,
its results are foolproof. With-
out even guessing his own dan-
gerous thoughts an assistant
vice-president will tell all to
the professor and the chro-
nometer.

‘Lord help him if his
actions aren’t perfect!
month he'll

inter-
Next
get a discharge
Slip with his last pay check.
But if the anthropologist’ can
find no sign of anti-profit ten-
dencies, the lucky executive will
find himself suddenly promoted.

HE famous Massachusetts

Institute of Technology has
developed other secret methods
for determining boss loyalty.
All sorts of innocent-looking
questionnaires can be mailed
out to management. In the an-
swers to these _ scientifically
chosen quizzes the laboratory
stoolies can discover every trace
of anti-company, anti-capitalist
feeling among the $20,000-a-year
men.

Says a leading industrial re-
search service: “Greater strides
could be made if more com-
panies would use the anthropol-
ogists, who can adapt theories
of human behavior to specific
company needs.”

This is a new level in the
perversion of science by mon-
opoly capitalism. Anthropology
has contributed most notably
to Man’s knowledge of his own
dignity. Here this science is
being degraded almost obscene-
ly, and all the, ten-dollar words
of these stoolie professors can-
not cover up their cheap, des-
picable fraud. In this age of
dying capitalism the monopo-
lists are forced to spy on their
most trusted servants, and the
spies try to hide their dis-
gusting activity under the mask
of “anthropology.’

Still, it really is more amus-

ing than offensive. So is the
stuff currently being published
in the “sociology” magazine. In
the Sociology Review. Dr. Her-
bert Blumer has a_technically-

worded report in which he uses f

pseudo-science to beat about the
bush, What is his conclusion?

“Anyone who is at all realis-
tic about our industrial rela-
tions,” says this profesor of
Chicago University, “must rec-
ognize that wishes, hopes and
intentions of workers and man-
agement alike far transcend
what the parties are actually
getting out of their relation.
It is a mistake to think that
labor relations are normally
stable, or that present unrest
will later develop into a per-
manent, orderly situation.”

One hundred years after
Karl Marx, a sociologist dis-
covers the’ class struggle. He
finds that the workers want to

eat and the bosses want more |

profits. But he fails to see the
damning contradiction between
the masses of the people who
labor to produce _ everything
useful, and the handful of mon-
opolists who do nothing but
scheme for higher profits, This
contradiction cannot be ended
by research into ‘sociology,’ but
only by political struggle that
will lead us to socialism. -

——

Did You Pay Income Tax For 1942?

The Government of Canada will repay the REFUNDABLE
SAVINGS PORTION of 1942 Income Tax by March 31st,
1948. If you are one of those who have refundable savings a

CANADA

If so, read this carefully!

cheque will be mailed to you BUT— .

“Your correct present address is essential!

Correct addresses are available for most of those entitled to
repayment, but a large number of taxpayers are constantly
moving and others marry and their names change. —,

Cards on which to report changes of address or name are
being sent to all householders in Canada. These are being

_ distributed at the present time. Additional cards are available
either at your district Income Tax office or your local Post
Office. Do nothing if you live at the same address and have

the same name as in 1942. :

If you are entitled to Refundable Savings on 1942 I ncome
Tax and you have changed your address or name

COMPLETE AND MAIL YOUR CARD AT ONCE!

‘DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL REVENUE

Taxation Division — ‘

. Hon. James J. McCann
Minister of National Revenue

Ottawa