BLAMES PARLEY BREAKDOWN ON LABOR GOV'T
blames parley breakdown on labor gov't A. J. Muste, Chairman of Conference for Progressive Labor Action, Flays British f India Policy NEW YORK—The Conference for Progressive Labor Action through...
...Progressive laborites In this country will continue to give all possible support to Indian aspirations for freedom though recognizing that nationalism In itself is by no means a final goal...
...We repeat our earlier contention that it would have been infinitely better for the cause of Socialism and progressive laborism throughout the world if the Labor Government instead of its preoccupation with the negative business of maintaining order hi India had long ago come out with a positive program in line with the Labor Party's own pronouncements before it came to power...
...MONEY COULDN'T BUY LETTER FROM OLD BOB (Klamath Falls, Ore., Sept...
...blames parley breakdown on labor gov't A. J. Muste, Chairman of Conference for Progressive Labor Action, Flays British f India Policy NEW YORK—The Conference for Progressive Labor Action through its Chairman, A. J. Muste, criticizes the British labor government for the breakdown of the negotiations between Gandhi and Lord Irwin in a statement issued today...
...I have taken La Follette's Magazine for many years and have a personal letter from Robert M. La Follette Sr., that money couldn't buy.—Geo...
...The Nationalist leaders In India, as reported in the New York Times, have asked for a full national government responsible only to the people of India and with the right to secede at any time from the British Empire...
...In fact the premier of South Africa is at thus very moment proclaiming that at the forthcoming imperial conference in London he will insist that the right of dominions to secede from the Empire be recognized...
...It is, however, a serious blow to the cause of labor throughout the world if in such a crisis any labor government follows outworn and in the end futile imperialist lines instead of boldly venturing on a genuinely labor policy and taking whatever consequences that may involve...
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...The statement reads as follows: "The announcement that the negotiations between Lord Irwin, the Viceroy of India, and Gandhi and other Indian Nationalist leaders have broken down illustrates anew the inadequacy of the British Labor Government's policy in India and its total lack of originality...
...India like those of United States imperialism In the Phil-] ippines are not citizens...
...Were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John and Samuel Adams, and others of our 'founding fathers of 1776' alive, that would sound like a strangely familiar demand to them...
...We do so with no lack of appreciation for the tremendous difficulties in which the British labor government finds Itself in dealing with this issue...
...It is monstrous tha* the labor government should back Lord Irwin, as it presumably does, in refusing e. g. Gandhi's demand that political prisoners not guilty of violence be released...
...But of course the subjects of British Imperialism in...
...Surely Fenner Brockway and the other labor opponents of the labor government's present policj- in India are right in their amazement at the spectacle of the former pacifist Ramsay McDonald countenancing such cruelty and disregard of the fundamental right of citizens to protest peacefully...
...5—Why not fight the chain store and the Republican party government that has made it and other forms of Big Business to prosper...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 41
