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Rh 47 discuss matters regarding the opening of the Mills. The result of our representatives' talk is that the Mills will be opened to you at 6 o'clock to-morrow morning. Now, with the trouble which is just ending and ending because you have been wise, a new feature of our work comes out before us. What looks apparently as not a triumph is, in reality, a great victory for the Labour Union. The nature of that triumph and victory you will be able to understand a few weeks hence. It has become necessary now to keep on with our work to come together often and think about the problems we have to solve in the Labour Union Meetings. We have been going very slowly in the past months. In the future months our pace will be more regular and will be better attended. I want you to take more interest in the work of the Labour Union than you have done in the past. I have therefore appointed our friend Mr. N. Dandapani Pillay to be in the regular charge of the Labour Union work and he will attend office the whole day, every day for some months to come. (Cheers.) He will be at the Labour Union office from morning till evening. He will register all the complaints and everything that you have to say, so that I shall get a daily report from him. And also he will attend to all the work regarding the particular Labour Union which is a very strong body. Therefore, I would request you to see Mr. N. Dandapani Pillay at the Labour Union Office every day if you have anything to say to him. And I will repeat to day the advice that I have given you at the very first meeting : that you must stand firm and united if you want to win the victory in the coming days. We are thinking of great projects and as we have now the