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 576 NON-CO-OPERATION

(3) There should be no viole ice used against non- strikers.

(4) Strikers should be able to maintain themselves during the strike period wuhout failing back upon Union funds and should therefore occupy themsehes in some useful and productive temporary occupation.

(5) A strike is no remedy when there is enough other labour to replace strikers. In that case in the event of unjust treatment or inadequate wages or the like, resignation is the remedy.

(6) Successful strikes have taken place even when all the above conditions have not bsen fulfilled, but that merely proves that the employees were weak anl had a guilty conscience. We often make terrible mistakes by copying bad examples. The safest thing is not to eopy examples of which we have rarely complete knowledge but to follow the conditions which we knoY ani recognise to bs essential for success.

It is the duty of every well wisher of the country, if we are to attain Swaraj during the year, not to precipitate any action that may even by a day retard the fulfilment of the great national purpose.

��British Press, Madras.

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