SHOLAPUR COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY 81 63. Although the workers were sceptical of outside intervention they preferred to have men elected by them on this second committee rather than depend on the earlier one which was representative of capitalist interests. 64. Ibid. 65. The workers think that the Collector and other officials are working hand-in-hand with the managers and millowners and are helping them not the operatives'. See, Police Abstract, Volume XXXIII, Number 10,6 Mairch 1920, p. 311; also see 'The Mahratta, 22 February 1920; Police Abstract, Volume XXXIII, Number 6, 7 February 1920, p. 167. 66. See Joseph Baptista's letter to the editor of the Chronicle dated 19 February 1920 in The Bombay Chronicle, 20 February 1920, p. 12. 67. Sholapurcha Kamgar, pp. 6-7. 68. Ibid., p. 7. 69. See The Bombay Chronicle, 26 February 1920, pp. 9-10; Following the commencement of the strike, the Collector had requisitioned the military to guard the mills. See Police Abstract, Volume XXXIII, Number 6, 7 February 1920, p. 167. 70. GOB, Home (Special), File 766 of 1931, p. 51, MS A; See GOB Press Note in The Mahratta, 29 February 1920 that there were four victims and not six as earlier announced. 71. Report on Indian Papers in the Bombay Presidency [hereafter ROIP], Number 8, 21 February 1920, p. 3; jROJP, Number 9, 28 February 1920, p. 13. Also see letter from A.H.A. Somcox to the Commissioner, Central Division, Poona, dated 16 February 1920 in GOI, Home (Political) - B, File 311-315 K.W. of March 1920, pp. 4-6, NAI. 72. See Police Abstract, Volume XXXIII, Number 13, 27 March 1920, p. 407; Shanta Kirloskar, Comrade Minatai Sane, p. 21. 73. Pandhe, 'Labour Organizations', p. 52. 74. The Times of India, 9 April 1920; Police Abstract, Volume XXXIII, Number 6, 7 February 1920, p. 167. The District Superintendent of Police, Sholapur in his report of 30 January 1920 observed, 'What, however, is clear is that with a mob in the state of mind they were in on the 1st day of the outbreak, intent on doing serious damage, force at my disposal was quite useless to deal with the affair'. See Police Abstract, Volume and Issue mentioned above for details. 75. The Times of India, 9 April 1920. With regard to the suggestion of opening a military recruiting depot the article noted that Sholapur had proved to be an excellent ground for recruiting soldiers during the war. 76. Ibid. 77. See M. Kamat, 'Labour, Ethnicity and Violence', p. 5. 78. Pandhe, 'Labour Organizations', pp. 52-53. 79. Police Report of Bombay Presidency for 1922 (Bombay, 1923) p. 39. 80. Labour Gazette, I, 7, (March 1922), 22. 81. See, Land Revenue Administration Report of the Bombay Presidency for 1921-22, p. 23. It mentions that bad harvests are a preventive of labour unrest. A good harvest in 1921 was followed by a strike in 1922 at Sholapur after payment of the yearly bonus. 82. This trend has also been observed in connection with the 1920 strike which occurred in the same months (February-March). For details see Police Abstract, Volume XXXIII, Number 10, 6 March 1920, p. 311; It is also