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 660 NON-CO-OPERATION

continue them, if we are conferring with them for peace. Workers will bear in mind that as yet no activity of the Congress stops save general civil disobedience. On the contrary, enlistment of volunteers and Swadeshi propaganda must continue without abatement. Liquor shop picketing may continue where it is absolutely peaceful. It should certainly continue where notices unnecessarily prohibiting picketing have been issued. So may picketing continue regarding schools or foreign cloth shops. But whilst all our activities should be zealously continued, there should be the greatest res- traint exercised and every trace of \ iolence or dis- courtesy avoided. When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible. Civil disobedience being an indefeasible right, the prepara- tions for it will continue even if the conference comes off. And the preparations for civil disobedience consist in :-*

1. the enlistment of volunteers,

2. the propaganda of Swadeshi,

3. the removal of untouchability,

4. the training in non-violence in word, deed and thought,

5. unity between diverse creeds and classes.

I hear that many are enrolled as volunteers in various parts of India, although they do not wear Khadi, do not believe in complete non-violence, or, if they are Hindus, do not believe in untouchabiiity as a crime against humanity. I cannot too often warn the people that every deviation from our own rules retards our progress. It is the quality of our work which will place God and not quantity. Not all the lip Mussulmans and the lip Hindus will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Islam

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