Indian Boycott

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 229, 28 September 1931, Page 8

Indian Boycott

HARDSHIPS IN LANCASHIRE MR. GANDHI INVESTIGATING [ British Official Wireless. ] Received Sept. 27, 5.5 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. 26. Mr. Gandhi is due to leave London this evening for a two days’ visit to Lancashire. He will stay at Springvale garden village, Darwen, and his engagements include an interview with a number of cotton operatives, many of whom are unemployed owing to the state of the Indian trade. The visit is a private one, but hopes are expressed that as a result of the exchange of views on the distress caused by the boycott of foreign cloth in India, a better atmosphere may be created for any official discussions that may take place later with the Indian delegates to the round-table conference on the relations between India and the Lancashire cotton industry. Mr Gandhi is assured of the courteous reception due to a guest of His Majesty’s Government, and the spirit of inquiry that has prompted the visit is appreciated in Lancashire. Conference Proceedings. The general discussion of the distribution of financial resources under the proposed new Indian constitution was concluded in the Federal Structure Committee to-day. A subcommittee consisting of 12 members is to consider and report upon “general principles on which the Federal resources and the obligations of India should be apportioned between the Federation and British Indian units jointly and severally, and the State units.” The subcommittee has been set up under the chairmanship of Lord Peel. Meetings of the full committee will be suspended next week while the sub* committee is sitting, and during the interval Lord Sankey will prepare a draft report on the work already done. The important communal question will again come to the front next week, for on Monday the minorities committee will resume its work.

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MB. GANDHI’S STATEMENT Received Sept. 27, 9.10 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 26. Mr. Gandhi informed cotton employers and operatives that he could not abandon the home spinning movement in India, but if proper Anglo-Indian relations were reached India would import a quantity of British cloth, though not the previous amount.