Question

The Congress was reluctant to include the demands of industrial workers in its programme of struggle."" Analyse the reasons.(Delhi - 2015)

Answer 1

Answer:

Congress was reluctant to include demands of industrial workers:

1. Congress did not want to disappoint the industrialists by including the worker's interest.

2. Some workers participated in the movement and boycotted foreign goods as part of their protest against low wages and poor working conditions.

3. But most workers kept away as Congress favoured industrialists and believed that anti-imperial forces can get divided.

Explanation: The interests of the industrialists and the workers couldn’t go hand in hand so the Congress decided to favour the industrialists.

Answer 2

Some of the industrial workers who participated in

the Civil Disobedience Movement were the Nagpur

industrial workers who selectively adopted some of the

Gandhian ideas such as boycott of the foreign goods.

They participated in the movement as part of their

own movement against the low wages and the poor

working conditions in the industries.

In the year 1930 and 1932, the railway workers and

the dockworkers went on strike. The Chhotanagpur

tin mines workers also protested in rallies wearing

Gandhian caps and boycotted the campaigns.

But the Congress was not willing to include their

demands because he thought that this would alienate

the industrialists and divide the anti-imperialist forces.