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Hindu organization. The following figures giving the
communal proportion will show that people of all com-
munities without distinction are working under the
Association :

Spinners Weavers Total

Hindus 1,07,150 5,529 . 1,12,67^

Muslims 50..23S 3,882 " 54,100'

Harijans 15,940 3,702 19,842

Other communities 335 — 335

Total 1,73,663 13,092 1,86,95&

" Within the last 13 years of its existence, although
only a very meagre proportion of our people have yet
taken seriously to khadi, it has distributed over
Rs. 4,00,00,000 in wages. How wonderful the result must
be if all or even a good majority take to it."

Referring next to the neighbouring non-Congress-
Government of the Punjab,* Doctor Khan Saheb con-
cluded : " The Punjab Government which, by the way, is
no Congress Government, has been forced, by the logic of
facts, to accept khadi as the only specific for famine relief.
In Hissar, it has sanctioned Rs. 25.000 for organizing'
spinning centres and I understand they are going to in-
crease the amount further.

" The day is not far when the most sceptical will be
forced to admit that the charkha is the only specific for
India's economic ills." Dr. Khan Saheb ended with a
passionate exhortation to establish a khadi centre in
every town and village of the North-West Frontier
Province.

Gandhiji in his written message in Hindustani, which
was printed and distributed among the visitors, made
some incisive observations on Swadeshi. " Do not be
misled by names/' he warned his hearers. " A piece of
Japanese cloth cannot become Swadeshi merely by being

* There was a Coalition Unionist Ministry in the Punjab at that
time.