Gandhi hurried back to Ahmadabad.
Before taking up the labour dispute
Gandhi wanted to move his ashram. The Satyagraha Ashram was in a village near
Ahmadabad, but the surroundings were not clean leading to an outbreak of plague
that had spread there from Ahmadabad.
A rich merchant of Ahmedabad who
was closely associated with the ashram, volunteered to procure a suitable piece
of land. Gandhi moved about with him looking for land and at last they chose a
place on the banks of the Sabarmati River, near the Sabarmati Central Jail. The
land was purchased and there the famous Sabarmati Ashram was started.