§ Mr. GALLACHERasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that an Order has been issued by the Government of Bihar directing that two workers, Messrs. K. C. Mitra and Santiram Mandal, who had been deputed by the Indian railwaymen's federations to organise railwaymen at Jamalpur, should be forbidden to enter the province of Bihar for a year from 1st September, 1936; and, as the issue of this Order under the Bihar and Orissa Public Safety Act contravenes the assurances given by the Government that legitimate trade union activities would be protected, what effect will be given to the protest of the railway union concerned against the present policy of the Government of Bihar in order to protect the peasant and labour movements?
§ Mr. BUTLERYes, Sir. These men have been closely connected with Communist unions in Bengal which have been declared unlawful, and the Government of Bihar were satisfied that their operations in the province would be of a communistic nature and not in the nature of legitimate trade union activities.