The seeds of militant but non-violent trade unionism were fist sown in the second decade of the twentieth century by a remarkable lady by the name of Anasuyabehn Sarabhai, who organized Ahmedabad’s cotton textile labour along Gandhian lines of thought. She worked in close cooperation with others, notably /shankarlal Banker. The inspiration and guance, of course, came from Mahatma Gandhi. Very little is known of this courageous lady. She was a doer, not a writer. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Gandhi’s Truth, Erik H. Erikson describes Anasuyabehn better, one has to understand the story of cotton, the beginnings of the textile industry as much in Ahmedabad as elsewhere in India, and the rise of labour militancy. There are any number of books on the Indian Labour Movement. This book, however, focuses attention on two of the most significant players in the drama of militant but non-violent trade unionism: Anasuyabehn Sarabhai and Shankarlal Banker. This is their story.