British Labor's Program For India

...Full self-government for India—including the right t* aerede frem the British Commonwealth „r Nations-was accepted aa aa ultimate objective by the British Government years ago...

...It is fortunate that this time two progressives are working together...

...the Rev...

...The waste pile from which the vanadium had been extracted was then processed—without pay to the miners—by a government-operated maniom plant nearby...

...If Britain agrees to "unfreeze" the blocked assets and allows India to use the sterling balances right away and wherever she likes, the Indians may buy their machinery in the United States...

...This meana that Britain will say what it wants and leave it to the Indians to accept, reject, or propose alterations...

...The greatest grievance of the fsdian workers, as expreasrd to me by Indian trai'e union lea^TS st the World Trade Union Congress in London last February, is that Britain retards India's industrial development...

...It will therefore not be open to obstructionist tactics by minorities...

...British Labor's Program For India Socialists Tackle Tough Problem Which Tories Could Not Solve By Friedrich Scheu Mete I tnrir, Lenden Cerreeponient THIS is the period when the British I »' ? Government is preparing its legislative work...

...be mind of progressive people out-able Britain, India is the crucial test of any British Government...

...President, to initiate an American policy toward China which will support all Chinese groups genuinely working for unity and democracy and to abandon our government's present political and military policy, which encourages the anti-democratic maneuvers of the Kuomintang dictatorship and consequently foments civil war...

...This exemplifies his natural sympathy for the "underdog" — a type of mind that should endear him to the Gandhi school of thought...

...Pethiek-I.a w rene* made hie reputation in the women's suffrage movement before the last war...

...in - voluntarily—within the family of the British Commonwealth of Nations...

...The mass of the British people, and particularly the workers, are sincerely anxious to solve the Indian problem—though it is true that the complexities of this problem are stressed in the British press far more than the urgency of reaching a solution...

...But it will be chosen ao as to have the "support of the main Indian parties" and this again clearly means that it will not be necessary for everyone to agree...

...The anxiety of Indian industrialists to get the gooda right away Is mixed with a Certain amount of eagerness to humiliate the British and with natural resentment that British Government control of India finances prevents them from doing so at the moment...

...And in one important instance— that of coal nationalization—the t'™ sei vativee have indicated their readiness to recept the inevitable...

...Other elements enter into the British people's attitude to India...

...There have been periods when the Viceroy was progressive but the India Secretary a diehard (this was the rase early this year when Viceroy Wavell had to deal with India Secretary L. S. Amery...

...The ore, for which the men were pair...

...Vol...

...Sponsors include such well-known names as Frederick V. Field, military "expert" for the Dailu Worker...

...The material benefits of British nverlordship in India have in recent years accrued only to the limited class of people to whom the Indian civil service end army is a method of providing jobs for their sons...

...The Indian Congress Party, however, did not accept it...

...Signing most of the statements are I .eland Stowe, foreign correspondent, and Richard Watts, Jr., drama critic of the Herald Tribune...

...This in turn means that future order* for replacements, servicing, etc., will also go to the United States...

...A treaty to be proposed to India will be drawn up by the British Government...

...Britain's debt to India would in this way go to increase her debt to the USA and as America's willingness to tske large quantities of British goods hat always been doubtful, the British do not cherish the prospect...

...URANIUM MINERS UNPAID DeNVER, Colo...

...There have been no outstanding disappointments...

...It has all been ? ? -o.cable but not spectacular...

...Working in the feminist cause together with his wife, he suffered persecution: a "male suffragette...

...Til KSK proposals seem to open the wsy for a normal constitutional development in India...

...It takea time to aieke the detailed plana of Socialist reconstruction which the British public expects from its new rulers...

...The I «'"-i Government has tackled the «[i'estion of India...

...only on the basis of its vanadium content by the Vanadium Corporation, also contained uranium...

...In the past the mason for this was the reluctance of British vested interests- for example, tli* Lancashire cotton manufacturers— to allow the growth of Indian industry which might endanger their export markets...

...British Labor's avowed program is that of world-wide economic expansionism...

...Would handing India to the most insistent and extreme claimants mean delivering the Indian people into the hands of native exploiters who might prove worse masters than 4 (progressive) British Government...

...Or would letting go of India all at onre mean handing it over to other foreign rulers—to the Kussisns or (until recently) to the Japanese or perhaps to the United States...

...The new Socialist India Secretary, Lord Pethick-Lawrcnce, completed his consultations with Field-rnarshal Lord Wavell, Viceroy of India, whom he called to London aa soon as the new Government was formed, and British ? ? du ?'s program for India was announced...

...Attlee's Government will be called to prove its worth...

...But Parliament iee.ssrmbles on October 9 and the period of grace in ended...

...And as doubts of British sincerity have always played a large part in the mental make-up of Indian Congress I'm lv leaders, the problem of mutual trust has come to be of decisive importance in Anglo-Indian relations...

...A full-employment policy has nothing to fear from the development of the full productivity of other roantrie...

...Its form will be determined in consultation with the new provincial governments and with the Princes—but its coming into existence will not depend on the agreement of everybody...

...Literature appealed for contributions to the committee to pay for telegrams to President Truman reading: "We appeal to you,* Mr...

...What has happened so far haa mostly Ken the fulfillment of pledges made by the Churchill Coalition—minus the spanners which the capitalists might have thrown into the wheels had the Tories remained in power...

...This wish is coupled with the new distrust of nationalism—a legacy of the last decade...

...at one time he was considered a potential left-wing leader for the postwar period...

...So tar there in no undue impatience...

...Communists in China Defense of the Yensn Communists being a priority assignment of the comrades these days, the formation of a "Committee for a Democratic Policy Toward China" was expected anil arrived on time with the issuance of a flood of "Information Bulletins" quoting the familiar line "danger of a bloody civil war...

...The desire to retain a share—even a lion's share—in a potential market of 400,000,000 people is natural...

...On the other hand British Labor haa no interest in letting India become gekred to the economy of other countries, in particular the United States or Russia...

...To the British mini), it is only one of several important pit blems...

...Finally, the Viceroy will form a Government after the provincial elections...

...Consciously or unconsciously, such ideas are present in the minds of British Socialists when they consider the Indian problem...

...It makes them inclined to favor a gradual solution, a solution by agreement, with a set of Indians they ran trust...

...LPA).—Miners who produced the basic source, uranium, of which the atom bomb was made, did so often at cost of their own labor and without a cent of pay, according to the United Mine Workers' District 60 Newt...

...But the position has changed, particularly daring the war...

...The British worker would like the Indians to become properous consumers and would prefer them to rein...

...This Government will not be fully responsible to a Central Legislature in the ssme way aa a British Government ia responsible to Parliament...

...Max Yergan, and other regular "fronters" for the Communists...

...In the past there have been periods when Britain had a progressive Government which was hampered in its work by a reactionary Viceroy...

...They do not claim to solve all problems...

...Therefore Britain wants India to wait and make her purchases later, and principally in Britain...

...One, No...

...New provincial legislatures will be elected, and provincial governments which have for the most part been in abeyance since the outbreak of war will be formed...

...India holds large assets in British currency...

...But Britain at thr present moment is desperately short of goods herself, particularly of the machinery which India would like to buy...

...A modicum of general aupport, auch aa is usual in a democratic country, ought to be sufficient...

...Jack McMichael, Arthur I'pham Pope, Dr...

...Fieldmarshal Wavell has a strong reputation for leftwing views...

...The Labor Government's new plan oat-lines a procedure which will include negotiations with the different Indian interests but which will not depend on a fall agreement of all parties...

...One of the committees Bulletin launched the attack on Chiang Kai-shek, and a supplementary bulletin rushed into print after arrival of Mao Tse-tung in Chungking proclaimed "Negotiations which assume the continued existence of a one-party dictatorship and which call for the submission of all other parties instead of democratic cooperation among them are bound to fail...

...Thus, even in the economic field the old heritage of malice and distrust sharpena 1he inevitable conflict of interest...

...Perhaps the most difficult questions are not political, but economic...

...During the war India hat changed from if* former potition at Britain...

...They represent India's outlay for the war which Britain expects to repay one day in British goods...

...Then a constitution-making central body will be chosen...

...debtor into that of a creditor country...

...Bat the main obstacle to the eetaal realisation ef eelf-government — or, from the Indian Congress Party's point ef view, the main pretext ased by the Britiah for postponing i,—was the un willingness of the Moslem League and the Indian Princes to com* to aa agreement with the Congress Party...

...Once a political agreement has been reached the economic problems may be easier to solve...