The Radical Humanist Formerly Independent India - Organ of the Radical Humanist Movement July 31 1949

While maintaining that there was a tendency on the part of the millowners to take the maximum advantage of the price structure the Textile Commissioner oserved that The relatively high pricing of cloth coupled with the falling purchasing power of the masses was another factor which stood in the way of ready disposal of Ahmedabad stocks.' Obviously the present prices are beyond the means of th [...] He declared that the present economic policy of the Government of India which refused to take more spheres of industrial activity under their operation must lead not to a betterment of the standard of living but either to retardation or maintaining of the standard of living at the prsent level and to increasing the political and the economic power of the rich.' The indictment coining from a de [...] The growing power of the modern state and the menace it constitutes to the liberties of the citizen have amply shown in the light of actual political experience of the twentieth century that the problem of centralisation has become the crucial moral problem in conteporary politics. [...] From the point of view of the doctrinaire Socialist of the class-coscious trade-unionist as also of the salaried middle class naturally lured t y the hope of equal distribution of wealth the Labour Party has failed to deliver the goods. [...] But the Constituent Assembly ' on the insistence of the Congress leaders has delberately substituted the words " except according to procedure established by law " for the words " without due process of law " and in doing so has placed the life and liberty of the subject at the Mercy of the executive government and has made it impossible for the subject to-test the exercise of executive auth