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LABOUR IN MADRAS 163 I do not know your particular grievances, I am fully aware of all the grievances that you with other tradespeople and labourers are suffering. I happen to know something, being connected with a newspaper, about your printing trade. Not only in connection with the New Indir Printing Press, but for the last many years, in fact since 1905, I have had to do with journals and once owned a small Printing Press myself, so that I know what would facilitate your life and work and bring a kind of general improvement in the printing trade as such. The one thing I would advise you in carrying on your work during my absence would be to get as much koowledge as you can possibly obtain with the help of your leaders in the matter of the printing men in Europe and especially in America. The second thing that you should do would be to go from press to press in the City of Madras and get all the members that you can get for this particular Union which you have formed. That is all that I have to say to you to-day. Let me assure you that I will remember your request and will bear in mind that you are doing some useful work for self.progress in the City of Madras, and I hope when I come back I will find your Union good, stroug, powerful, wielding an influence for the betterment of our civic and our educational life. IN GREAT BRITAIN. Mr. B. P. Wadia left Madraz on May 8th, 1919, and arrived in London on June 7th. It is not quite possible to deal in detail with his work in Great Britain and Amer ica. In the Appendix will be found matter which will indicate the nature of some of the work in the British Isles.