INDEPENDENCE URGED
GHANDI’S PROPOSALS -* - * j v. 1 PASSIVE RESISTANCE NON-PAYMENT OF TAXES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 11 a.m. to-day. DELHI, Feb. 14. Ghandi’s plans for an independence campaign, Avnioh are being submitted to the congress workirur committee at Sabar-mati to-day, include a proposal that the congress should not. control or direct a civil disobedience campaign, but should give moral support to. .a “council of Avar” to control operations ui selected areas. Thus congress would be divested of responsibility for outtwtfnks of violence in such areas../’ . ' Gandhi favours a campaign of nonpayment of taxes in certain areas and •uoncerbed defiance of the Government’s ialt monopoly, the latter to include the production of salt by people wherever there are natural facilities, and tiie organisation of dioek workers in Calcutta and other ports to refuse to handle foreign salt. ; If the- congress does not assent to the plan Gandhi Avill carry out the campaign himselff.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 15 February 1930, Page 5
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155INDEPENDENCE URGED Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 15 February 1930, Page 5
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