The Labor Revolt in India (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Labor Revolt in India Borne, as it were, on the back of a tornado has gone forth throughout the world the momentous message of a tremendous labor unrest in India - an unrest that is spreading like prairie fire from trade to trade, from city to city, and from province to province. The workingman of India, like his comrades of other lands, has long been suffering in silence from the insatiable greed of his master. Today the entire world seems to be aflame with the fire of labor unrest that seeks to burn to ashes all social iniquities, economic debaucheries and political hooliganism that have plunged humanity into the very abysmal depth of unalloyed misery. And India is only playing her part in this great drama of Humanity. India is as large as the whole of Europe without Russia. Within her boundaries fifteen British Isles or ten Japans or all of the United States east of the Rockies may comfortably be accommodated. Her population is 315, 000, 000, three times that of America, in other words, she has one-fifth of the total population of the world. In natural resources, she produces one-third of the world's supply of rice and cattle, tea and tobacco, one third of its cane sugar, one fifth of its cotton, and one-tenth of its wheat. The mineral products of India include gold, coal, petroleum, lead, tungsten, mica, tin, jadestone, ruby, sapphire, iron, silver, copper, alum, manganese, clay, chromite, agate, gypsum, diamond, platinum, antimony, graphite, asbestos, bismuth, etc., etc. In the year 1917, India produced coal worth $22, 558, 225, gold worth $11, 109, 445, petroleum worth $5, 464, 825, manganese worth $7, 505, 400. Experts estimate that not even a thousandth part of the iron deposits of India have been worked or even prospected. India's coal fields are vast, rich and almost inexhaustible. Occupations of Population Of the total population of 315, 000, 000 - 143, 456 men and 62, 614 women live principally on their unearned incomes. This leisure class with their dependents number 540, 175, i.e. 0.17 per cent. of the total population of the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.