Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1946 — Page 12

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NEW DELHI, Indis, "oct. 24.—When you spin by hand

fn non - violent revolution have turned about the simple, ancient spinning wheel. In this 20th ceritury his followers wear homespun as & sign of patriotism, Thousands of of them loyally spin yarn daily

of extra income. Now Gandhi's spinning disciples,

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= in India, you don’t merely twist cotton fiber into yarn, You land yourself smack in. the middle of national ¥ economics and ‘politics and a creed

organized in the All-India Spinners’ association, are looking fore ward, At a conference in a Delhi colony for outcaste Harijans they have been considering how postwar inflation and the approach of independence will affect their creed.

Goal Fruitful

Their goal -is the most truttfulglpe

use of the vast Indian manpower. The spinning wheel is Gandhi's rebuttal to mechanized capitalism. Puture prospects are mixed, according to Sri Krishnadas Jaju, the general secretary of the Spinners’ association. On the bright side, the Gandhian spinning program has just won substantial governmental support in Madras province. The Congress party Premier T. Prakasam, in a hotly debated anticapitalist move, has announced a drastic program designed to make most of Madras self-sufficient in cloth with homespun “Knadi.”

Prevent New Mills The provincial government, he states, will prevent the construction. of new textile plants or the expansion of existing mills, Instead, it will grant about $3,000,000 “initially for a project to make seven experimental areas selfsufficient in homespun within 18 months, This policy is opposed by most, business interests. It has threatened to split even the provincial Congress party which is pledged to support the Khadi movement. But as Khadi costs two and one half times as much as mill-made cloth, supporters of homespun see no other way to enforce their pro-

gram. The dark side of the spinning movement's prospects, Jaju says, is that Kahdi production is much less than it was before the war. Weavers Make More Money Part of the reason is that weavers can make more money in today’s inflated market by using mill-made yarn than by using handspun yarn. In the national shortage of cloth, moreover, spinners, too, find higher profits by selling to merchants who mix homespun and machined yarn. Jaju regrets this development as a breech of creed. But when prices are higher outside the Khadi movement, he asks, “How can you expect ignorant village women to grasp the non-eco-nomic idea that the spinning wheel is a symbol of truth and nonviolence?" The spinners’ association is a compact organization, full of the faith which it propagates through some 600 major centers in India.

Near Recovery

It has almost recovered, Jaju says, from a war-time eclipse suffered when its leaders were in jail along with other congress workers. Again it is working with spinning groups in about 12,000 villages. In each one families are taught that it is wrong to mortgage crops in order to buy cloth from distant markets. They are told to spin for at least one or two hours a day to make enough yarn for their own cloth requirements, By giving the yarn to local weavers to be made up, a further village industry is encouraged. : Some spinners work for pay as well as to meet their own needs. The wage-scale is now 12 cents for an eight-hour day, or twice the pre-war scale. Jaju estimates that about 400,000 spinners are affiliated with the association.

But only about, 25,000, he. believes,

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work camestly enough to meet all their family cloth needs. Seek to Raise Sales’ Before the war Khadi sales ran to $3,000,000 a year. The assoclation's immediate goal is to raise them to an equivalent level at today's prices. On principal the spinning move-

politics. Such a distinction has little meaning, however,- because this movement took the Gandhian creed into many thousands of villages at a time when most Indian political activity was centered in lawyers’ anterooms, newspaper offices, and college grounds. The ground swell of village sup port, which thé congress party has received in its nationalist campaigns, it materially due to the eft of the spinning movement.

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_ By RICHARD LEWIS ’ The Indianapolis public utility front was quiet today on the Indianapolis Railways, Inc, and Indianapolis Power & Light Co. sectors, but preparations for a new offensive by city and’state authorities were under way. The state prepared to present ex|perts in the railways rate case next week while the city laid plans to present questionnaires to the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. and the Indianapolis Water Co. on present rate schedules. - Indiana public service conimiision

hearings were recessed again until Monday, after a brief resumption of the railways rate case yesterday to permit the introduction of evidence by the state. Study, Reply This explained the state's contention that the railways has overvalued its property to the extent of $6,000,000—a claim which the railways will $rgue further. City councilmen, who are investigating all Indianapolis utilities, studied the Light company’s reply to its initial’ questionnaire and waited for the Citizens Gas & Coke utility to answer another set of formal questions put forward in the probe. bi Some councilmen doubted that the gas utility would reply to the interrogatory, but at the utility it was indicated that an answer would be forhooming shortly. Council's assertions that the light

company is charging the city a penalty rate for electric power and that the utilitys has made a 125 per cent ‘write-up in its property valuation were denied in a memorandum to the council by Harry T. Pritchard, company president, tol Councilman Herman E. Bowers. Mr. Pritchard stated that the book value of the company’s property, amounting to $55,504,615. as of Dec. 31, 1945, is based on original cost. Any increase in book value of the company properties represents the addition of physical property, he said. No securities have been issued on the basis of any write-up, the memo said, All bonds and stocks have been issued in accordance with Indiana law. The rate for electric power applied to the city is specifically designed to cover a wide variety of service on a single, simplified rate, the memo said.

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