HOME RULE FOR INDIA

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 1, 1 January 1921, Page 5

HOME RULE FOR INDIA

NON CO OPERATION MOVEMENT

BOYCOTT OF BRITISH.

UNIFYING NATIVE RACES. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) DELHI, December 31. The constitution adopted by the Nagpur congress aims at Home Rule for India. The congress resolved to ask parents to withdraw children and students from State institutions, and make provision for their training in national schools. The trustees, managers, and teachers of State institutions are requested to help to nationalise them. Lawyers are nsked to suspend practice and devote attention to national ser vice, merchant traders gradually to boycott foreign trade relations, anil the people generally to assist in an economic boycott.

A resolution emphasised that nonviolence was an integral part of the non co-operation movement, violence being regarded not only as contrary to the true spirit of democracy, but retarding the enforcement of non co-operation.

A special appeal was made for efforts to advance Hindu-Moslem unity, to settle all disputes between Brahmins and non-Brahmins. The religious beads were urged to help in the growing desire to reform Hinduism in the matter of the treatment of the suppressed classes.—-I Renter.)

The Indian National Congress, sitting at Nagpur, carried Mr. Gandhi's resolution that the constitution of the congress should have, as its object, the attainment by the people of India of the aims of the non-co-operation movement by all peaceful and legitimate means, that committees should be organised throughout the country for service to be called the Indian national service, and that a national fund should be established to finance the movement.

The t ongress decided to ask police and soldiers to refuse to subordinate their creed and country to the fulfilment of their duties. An appeal to Government servants is pending, calling upon them to resign and to help the national cause by greater kindness nnd stricter and more honest dealing with the people. — (Renter.)