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92 at Perambur are still going through difficulties, but I am sure, as with you, every thing will be all right with them also. When we are carrying on a struggle for truth, for justice and for righteousness difficulties arise, and we have to face those difficulties. And these difficulties must come because the great Devas and Rishis who guard human evolution naturally want to test strength of which we are made when we want to lead lives of truth, of justice and of righteousness. Now you have succeeded because you all stood united in the hour of trial and difficulty. (Hear, hear and cheers.) If our brothers at Perambur win success, it is also because they have and will stand united to the very end. Now that is the lesson that you have learnt and I hope and trust that you will not forget it, that you will remember it always. We are met together on a very happy occasion, we are coming into a new home and for us a new life is beginning. It would be better for us as we get this opportunity, that on this first occasion in this new home of ours, our very first act should be one of sympathy and co-operation with all our brothers. And therefore I would request you to take this opportunity and authorize us to carry a message of good-will, sympathy and co-operation from the Union of Tramway men to your brothers in difficulty at Perambur. I wish you in this new home of yours a very happy time and a very prosperous time, and may the Tramway Union do for us what the great Labour Unions in the western countries have done for their members, open a new era of peace, prosperity and plenty. Now I shall declare the Tramway Mens Union building open. (Secondly, Messrs. Binny & Co. issued a man ifesto