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REMARKABLE CHANGE UNDERGONE. . . . .
“The remarkable change that the Kasar Wadi area near Dadar has undergone during the past few years and the noteworthy improvement in the Harijan quarters in the locality effected by the Municipality were referred to by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar on Wednesday, the *20th August 1941 when a purse was presented to him by the residents of the locality for a building for the Independent Labour Party headquarters for which land worth Rs. 40,000 has already been taken on lease.
Mr. Upsham presenting the purse said that, that was the fourth occasion on which they were presenting the purse for the building fund.
Mr. D. V. Pradhan, General Secretary of the Municipal Kamgar Union who presided, said that he was sorry to refer to the fact that the Gujarati section of the Depressed Classes while sharing to the full the advantages accruing from the activities of the Union was not prepared to share the burden of the Union’s activities.
He also announced that the Municipal workers would orgainise a procession on September 7 to back up their demand for dearness allowance.” [1]
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- The date of newspaper ‘20th’ might have been wrongly reprinted.-Editors.
1 : The Bombay Chronicle, dated 20th August 1941.