BRITISH COTTON GOODS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 11

BRITISH COTTON GOODS

CONGRESS CARRIES ON

"MANCHESTER'S WAIL"

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(Received 7th May, 11 a.m.)

DELHI, 6th May

Manchester's protest against ihc boycott of British cotton goods and request for a reduction in Indian import duties on textiles are gleefully splashed in the .Nationalist papers with headings, "Manchester's Wail." Coincidenlally, the picketing which had ceased since the IrwinGandhi agreement, has recommenced in Calcutta bazaars. , Headed by local Congress leaders pickets visited shops and stood with folded hands exhorting merchants and customers to have nothing to do with foreign cloth. A police officer accompanied the procession. No action was taken, the pickets carefully explaining that they were acting within the agreement, which sanctioned boycott by peaceful picketing.