Who participated in ‘Satyagraha’ started by Gandhiji at Ahmedabad in 1917-18?

Correct answer: (b) Industrial workers

Explanation

After the success at Champaran, Gandhiji’s next experiment was to intervene in 1918 in a dispute in a cotton textile mill in Ahmedabad between the mill owners and the workers regarding an increase in bonus. The dispute was over the plague bonus. After the plague subsided, the owners wanted to discontinue it, while the workers demanded that it should continue. After a detailed study of production cost, profits, and the workers’ subsistence expenses, Gandhiji declared that the workers’ wages should be increased by 35%. The tribunal constituted by the mill owners accepted his view.