Scott Nearing

“ We support them in their fight for the fullest right to organise in Trade Unions, and of the industrial workers to develop their trades organisation to enable them to bargain with their employers upon a basis of equality. The conditions under which the workers of India are employed call for the goodwill and hearty support of all their efforts for improvement. ”

“ In recent years our mechanics have been busy manufacturing machinery for the textile factories of India, and the capitalists, who know no country, have used British made machinery and British capital and British management, which under-cut our Lancashire producers, and then quite calmly talk of being unable to compete with the 'foreign labour' and lower standards of India. In the interest of our own industrial workers we must help in any and every direction the Indian workers in their political and industrial struggles. ”

“ The wages paid to textile workers, miners, railwaymen, and other industrial workers, with their long hours of labour, have been voiced at our Congresses for some years, and are admitted to be a disgrace to any responsible Government or body of employers. ”