ABSTRACT
Bhat spoke of the need for a union between the workers of Scotland and India. Scotland in particular, he said, had been hard hit by the competition of low paid Indian labour. Jute workers in Dundee ought not to forget what the transference of capital from Dundee to India meant. In India the raw jute was produced and worked by raw human beings (laughter) docilely working on deliciously low wages, and it was transported at rates about a 1/5 of the transport rates here. Whether by land or sea Indian workers were at the throat of the Scottish workers through the economic manipulation of one set of workers against another…. The division which had existed it had been the policy of all the governments of the earth to make use of in the interests of the capitalists. The message from India was ‘Let there be no division’.
