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Oct 20, 2023 · The Ahmedabad Mill Strike of 1918 was a practical lesson in applying Gandhian approaches of nonviolence, mass mobilisation, employee–employer relationship, and constructive program-based approach for improving the conditions of workers.
May 27, 2024 · The textile mill employees in Ahmedabad went on strike in 1918 to demand economic justice after the mill owners stopped giving out plague bonuses. Gandhi stepped in to mediate this conflict between millowners and employees in Ahmedabad.
Oct 22, 2011 · Ahmedabad Mill Strike, 1918 was one of the initial movements led by Gandhi in the beginning of 20 th century after his return from South Africa. It was one of the formative events in the political career of Mahatma Gandhi.
The Ahmedabad Mill Strike was an episode in Modern Indian History where workers of textile mills in Ahmedabad fought for economic justice when the mill owners discontinued their plague bonuses. Mahatma Gandhi undertook his first fast unto death on 15th March 1918.
Jul 22, 2021 · Ahmedabad Mill Strike 1918. In 1918, the Saurashtra region faced plague. So, with the end of the plague, Mill owner of Ahmedabad Mill decided to end the Plague bonus. Workers of the Mill protested on the ground that the natural plague ie a disease is over.
Ahmadabad Mill Strike, 1918. Gandhiji’s second struggle was at Ahmedabad in 1918 when he had to intervene in a dispute between the workers and the mill-owners. He advised the workers to go on strike and to demand a 35 per cent increase in wages.
16. Ahmedabad Mill-Workers Satyagraha: Gandhi hurried back to Ahmedabad. Before taking up the Labour dispute Gandhi wanted to move his ashrama. The Satyagraha Ashrama was in a village near Ahmedabad, but the surroundings were not clean and plague had broken out. It had spread there from Ahmedabad.
This campaign for economic justice in the textile mills of Ahmedabad lasted 25 days adhering to Gandhi’s nonviolent satyagraha principles. The establishment of the Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association had long term effects in improving working conditions and leading labor union organization in India. Research Notes.
In 1918, Mahatma Gandhi initiated a hunger strike in support of the Ahmedabad Mill Workers, who were demanding better working conditions and wages. The mill workers had been getting a bonus on top of their basic wages due to the ongoing epidemic.
A dispute emerged between mill owners of Ahmedabad and workers over the discontinuation of the Plague bonus. Workers demanded a 50% hike in wages (because of wartime inflation).
