GANDHI'S PLANS.
Independence Campaign in India. DEFIANCE URGED. (Received 10.30 a.m.) DELHI, February 14. Gandhi's plans for the opening of the Congress on the Independence Campaign, which are being submitted to a congress working committee at Sabarmati to-day, include proposals that. congress should not control or direct civil disobedience duriri o, the campaign, but should give moraf support to a "council of war" to control operations in selected areas. Thus congress will be divested of responsibility for outbreaks of violence in- such areas. Gandhi "favours a campaign for the non-payment of taxes in certain areas and a concerted defiance of the Government's salt monopoly, the latter to include the production of salt by the people wherever there are natural, facilities and the organisation of dock workers at Calcutta and other ports for refusal to handle foreign salt. If congress does not assent to the plan Gandhi will carry out the campaign himself. . . . •■. _" j—..
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 9
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