Harijan Poona—Saturday September 17 1938

Excepting the threats of ' Civil War ' alleged by the Dewan all the other events or occurrences happened subsequent to the promulgation of the Proclamtion and the declaration of the State Congress as an illegal body. [...] HARIJAN UTSAV The period of nine days beginning from the 24th of September to the 2nd of October forms an important landmark in the history of the Harijan movement. [...] 900 ) labour in the villages is cheap the market is near at hand the village weaver can satisfy the local demand due to his immediate acquaintance with the tastes and the requirements of the people he has the facility of working in 41a is own cottage where the members of his family can help and he also"SEPTEMBER 17 1938 ) HARMAN 261 has the facility of being able to prepare small quantities [...] The Congress and the Government may help them to a large extent in combating the above disabilities but there are external handicaps in the shape of the duty on yarns and the preferential position of the mills. [...] The momen t the mills get that feeling it will be natura 1 for them either to curtail the supply of yarn to the hand-looms or to increase the price of yarn in order to throw the weavers out of employment or to make it unremunerative for them to manufacture.