POONA SATYAGRAH 509
More Arrests
The “ Satyagraha ” campaign launched by the Scheduled Castes Federation is continuing for the third day today. Batches of five and ten were seen shouting slogans and waving black flages opposite the Council Hall, in defiance of the orders of the Districts Magistrate.
The police had by 2 p.m. when the Assembly session began today, arrested about 50 demonstrators, including two women.
Fifth Day of Satyagraha Campaign
S. C. F. Volunteers Arrested
Restriction On Civil Liberty Deplored
Demonstration by the Scheduled Castes volunteers opposite the Council Hall were continued today the fifth day of the Satyagraha Campaign. Within an hour the police guarding the entrance to the Council Hall compound arrested nearly
70 volunteers.
Volunteers came in batches of four and five in drizzling rain and shouted slogans outside the compound of the Council Hall.
The trial was held this morning at the Yeravada Jail of the
122 Satyagrahis who were arrested yesterday for the defiance of the ban. The Additional City Magistrate sentenced all of them to pay fines ranging from Rs. 25 to Rs. 50 or in default to suffer simple imprisonment ranging from 15 days to 60 days. The 13 women volunteers came in for the lighter sentences.
The Federation leaders in Poona, Mr. B. K. Gaikwad, Mr. P. N. Rajbhoj and Mr. R. R. Bhole told the District Magistrate of Poona, at a meeting called by the Magistrate yesterday, that they could not accept any conditional offer for carrying on their Satyagraha and their protest against the injustice done to them by the British Government and the ban imposed by the Congress Government on taking out processions and staging demonstrations in an area of half a mile from the Council Hall would continue. The ban, they said, was a restriction on the cherished civil liberties of the masses.
Fresh batches of volunteers who have offered to take part in the Satyagraha are on their way to Poona from different parts of the province according to the organisers of the Satyagraha. They say