The Archive · 1930

Indian Congress's Defiance

Allahabad, June 19.

The Congress Working Committee, after a session lasting fono days, has decided to call on the, country to meet the situation jereated by the Viceroy's recent, Ordinances prohibiting picketing, the non-payment of taxes and tampering with the loyalty of Govern ment servants, by publicly dise obeying them.

The Committee also advises a social boycott of Government officers who are known to have participated in assaults, which, in the view of the Committee were unjustified, and an extension of the area of thy campaign for the non-payment of the land-tax and other taxes.

The Committee states that it wilt allow newspapers to resume pul lication on their undertaking write articles in defiance of th Ordinance and to disseminate tha views of the Indian National Congress, otherwise the Commitice will refuse to remove the ban on publication, which the Dethi Journalists Association has requested.—Reuter,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account