French Police Career
During this period Monsieur Sellane Naicker even though a pro-French leader at that time, had passed a bill in the assembly cutting the salaries of the European officials. This enraged the French who through their cohorts, encouraged terrorization of the voters against Sellane Naicker in the municipal and assembly elections of 1934. Dadala made Mudaliarpet and all communes behind it, bastions against these goonda acts. The French did not like this and as a result he was suspended from service by the order of then Deputy Chief Justice. But after a prolonged court battle, he was acquitted and reinstated three months later.
In 1936 Monsieur André Ménard (who later came back to India on July 31, 1950 as Governor of French settlements in India), then chef de cabinet and Secretary to the Governor's establishment went into Bharati Mills to negotiate a settlement with the workers who were on strike and was instead taken by them as a hostage for fulling their demands.
Monsieur Dadala who was the in charge police officer for that area and who knew that any aggressive act against the French will be a serious affair that could harm the workers' safety, acted deftly and defused the situation. With a surprising and a lightning charge he entered the mills and liberated Mr. Mernard without any harm to either side.
After this incident he enjoyed great friendship of the French leadership in Pondicherry, some of whom even volunteered to be godfather to his children. But however much he was happy with his French friends, in his heart Monsieur Dadala always yearned to be an active part of the nationalist movement surrounding him.
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