Explore the Social Service League, founded by Narayan Malhar Joshi to improve living conditions. The League's diverse activities included education, legal aid, and social services. Joshi also established the All India Trade Union Congress in 1920.
Founding: A follower of Gokhale, Narayan Malhar Joshi founded the Social Service League in Bombay with the aim to secure better and more reasonable conditions of life and work for the masses.
Activities: The League organized many schools, libraries, reading rooms, day nurseries, and cooperative societies. Their activities included police court agents’ work, legal aid and advice to the poor and illiterate, excursions for slum dwellers, facilities for gymnasia and theatrical performances, sanitary work, medical relief, and boys’ clubs and scout corps.
Trade Union Congress: Joshi also founded the All India Trade Union Congress in 1920.
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