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Rh 125 or of humiliation and disgrace. Take a little more interest in the coming year than you have taken in the past in the work of your Labour Union. We shall have to chalk out new plans, to make up new schemes so that the work of the Labour Union may make good and rapid progress. I hope that during the coming year we may be able to find amongst yourselves people who will take up offices in this Labour Union and relieve us who come from outside and who perhaps have little business to be here. Above all, keep up the religious attitude which you have kept up during the last year. That religious attitude has been of great service to us in the past and it is the one weapon, the one way, the one method whereby we shall gain our progress, our advancement, our liberty and our freedom. This morning we began with a religious prayer and religious procession. Look upon this great gathering as a happened in the past in this country and pray for the blessings of those great Rishis who always watch, inspire and instruct all the children of the Motherland, and may Their blessings rest on our heads, humble though we may be, so that we may offer our services at Their feet for the benefit of our common Motherland. THE TRAMWAY MEN'S UNION In Maroh 1919 a serious difference of opinion arose between the Tramwaymen's Union and the Tramway Company Limited, in which Mr. Wadia took a prominent part and delivered the following speeches : On March 11th I am sorry that you have another strike which will tell on your conditions in the days that lie in front, I