Date Issued

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • A Great And Victorious Strike By B. T. Ranadive • Victory For Locomen • Central and State Govt. Employees’ United Move • Another Successful Bundh / Kerala • Bombay Textile Workers Convention • Resident Doctors on Strike In Bombay • Need based Minimum Wage For Powermen Demanded • Seminar On Productivity and T.U. Movement • CITU’S Suggestions To Planning Commission • University Employees’ Conference • Supreme Court Creates Army Of Non-Workers / Legal Notes • Newsletters) West Bengal, Andhra, Tamilnadu • Other Regular Features

1 Sept 1973

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P., Roy, Biren

In This Issue: • Prevent Sabotage of Railway Agreement – B. T. Ranadive • Unity Day Observed By Central & State Government Employees • CITU Condemns Coup In Chile • Hind Motor Workers On Strike • Jaya Settlement : A Retrograde Step • Repression Continues In W. Bengal • Jitpur Accident Enquiry—A Report • Rajasthan State Employees’ Strike —An Assessment • UCTU Secretariat Reviews Situation • Who Gets The Bonus / Legal Notes • Other Regular Features • Book Review

1 Oct 1973

Ranadive, B. T., Ramamurti, P., Balanandan, E. +1

MINUTES 1. Notice 2. Speech of Com. B.T. Ranadive 3. Report of Cmn. P. Ramamurti, General Secretary 4. Information Documents: a) A short report on the activities of CITU Kerala State Committee by Coms. E. Balanandan b) Report on West Bengal by Com. Manoranjan Roy c) Letter dated 13.9.73 from Calcutta State Transport Employees Union, to Com. B.T. Ranadive, President CITU d) National Seminar on Productivity and trade union movement e) Letter dated 20.9.73 from General Secretary CITU to chief Labour Commissioner regarding verification 5. Receipt and Payment account of CITU for the period from 1.1.73 to 30.9.73. 6. Resolutions a) on Martyrs b) on condolence c) on Fascist coup in Chile d) on Recognition of P.R.G. Govt. in South Vietnam and Sihanouk Govt. in Cambodia. e) on Third Pay Commission Recommendations f) on the Loco Running Staff Struggle g) on High prices and food scarcity h) on use of DIR, MISA and other repressive measures against Trade Union and democratie movement. i) On West Bengal Labour Advisory Board Decision j) on Strike of UP Electricity Workers 7. Minutes of the meeting. 8. Press hand out issued by Com. B.T. Ranadive, President, and Com. Jyoti Basu, Vice-President in the press conference on October, 5, 1973 9. Extracts from the speech of Com. B.T. Ranadive 10. Extracts from the report of Com. P. Ranamurti DEEPENING CRISIS! RISING STRUGGLE!! - Review and Documents of the CITU Working Committee Meeting, New Delhi, October 3-5, 1973 • A Resume • Speech of B. T. Ranadive, President CITU • Report of P. Ramamurti, General Secretary • RESOLUTIONS (Adopted in the Working Committee Meeting} a) on Martyrs b) on condolence c) on Chile d) On recognition of Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam and Sihanouk Government of Cambodia e) On Third Pay Commission Report f) On the Loco Running Staff Struggle g) On High prices and Food scarcity a) On use of DIR, MISA and other repressive measures against Trade Union and democratie movement. h) On West Bengal Labour Advisory Board Decision i) On Electricity Workers j) On Beedi Workers k) On Raw Jute Price l) On Repatriation of POWs And Civil Internees m) On Soviet Offer of 2 Million Tonnes of Foodgrains n) On Coal Mine Workers Demands o) On Greetings to Peoples China p) On Engineering Industry q) On Bank Account

1 Oct 1973

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P., Ramamurti, P.

In This Issue: • Rally Behind The Central Government Employees • Greetings To Soviet Working Class & People • Greetings To Peoples China • Resist The Capitalist Offensive / B.T. Ranadive’s Call To The CITU Working Committee • Defeat The Line Of Disruption And Suppression—P. Ramamurti’s Report To Working Commitiee • CITU Demands Better Deal For Plantation Workers • Report Of The CITU Working Committee Meeting • Judicial Logic Vs. Facts Of Life / Legal Notes • Agreement With Loco Running Staff Being Sabotaged • Token Strike By Jute Workers On November 5 • Newsletters / Kerala, West Bengal, Tamilnadu • Other Regular Features

1 Nov 1973

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • All Support To Loco Workers – B. T. Ranadive • Magnificent Response To November 17 Bundh • Upsurge Of Militant Struggles By South African Workers • Interim Wage Rise For Five Lakh Coal Workers • Bonus Movement By Bhilai Workers—A Review • Delhi Bundh—A Great Success • Central Government Employees & Workers On To Countrywide: United Mass Actions • Locomen Plan Bigger United Struggle • Lawful Cheating / Legal Notes • Delhi Statesman Workers Struggle • Jute Workers Again Prepare For Industry-wide Strike • Other Regular Features

1 Dec 1973

Ranadive, B. T.

The working class, along with the people, has been groaning under the burden of ever-rising prices. The distress and misery caused by the rising price spiral is unimaginable. The Additional Emoluments (Compulsory Deposits) Act, 1974 is intended to deprive the workers of wage rise and increased dearness allowance. It constitutes a direct measure for wage freeze ; for prohibition of revision of wages in favour of the workers.

1 Jan 1974

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Government’s Labour Policy In The Dock • Locomen’s Demands—Stalemate Continues • Women Workers Fight Police and Goonda Attacks. • All India Jute Strike From January 14 • INTUC, AITUC And HMS Leaders Betray Sugar Workers • UCTU Secretariat Meets • All India Token Strike of LIC Employees On December 28 • The Law of Master & Servant / Legal Notes • Andhra Pradesh Unit of UCTU Formed • Struggle of IAC Employees Continues • CITU Invited To T. U. Congress Vietnam • TUI Body Extends Solidarity For Bengal Paper Mill Workers • Brutal Police Repression on Workers in Himachal Pradesh • Tamil Nadu Newsletter • Newsletters / Maharashtra, Kerala, West Bengal, Assam • Other Regular Features • Comrade Muzaffar Ahmed

1 Jan 1974

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Let All T.U.’s Unitedly Fight Attack On IA Employees – B. T. Ranadive • All India Jute Workers Rise Against Jute Magnates • Two Lakhs Textile Workers Of Bombay On General Strike • Trigger Happy Police On Rampage In Gujarat • Women Workers Organise In Maharashtra • Rising Struggles of Plantation Workers • State CITU Conferences & Conventions • All India Steel Workers’ Convention Finalises Charter Of Demands • Was Postponement Of PF Strike Correct? • LIC Employees? Successful Struggle • The Partial Lock-outs / Legal Notes • Maharashtra Bundh – Total / Maharashtra Newsletter • Successful Bundh for Food & Against High Prices / Bihar • Other Regular Features

1 Feb 1974

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P., Roy, Biren +1

In This Issue: • Let the Rising Struggles Shatter the Foundations of Congress Regime! • Lessons of All India Jute Strike • Grenade Thrown At Durgapur Steel Union Leaders • The Struggle And Wage Settlement In LIC • Stop This Exploitation of Workers • British Courts And Trade Union Rights / Legal Notes • One Union In Railway Industry Or An Attempt To Stem The Rising Struggles • Doctors And Engineers On Struggle • Valiant Struggle By Coca-Cola Workers • Bombay Textile Workers’ Strike Betrayed • Forty Lakhs State Govt. Employees To Observe Token Strike On April 9 • Indefinite Strike By Textile Workers Continues / Tamilnadu • Other Regular Features • 8-Page Supplement On The Third National Congress Of The Vietnamese Trade Unions – B. T. Ranadive • Apartheid-Worst Form Of Racial Discrimination • British Miners On Strike

1 Mar 1974

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • New Menace Of Higher Taxation And Railway Fare • Forward To New Militant Struggles / Ranadive Addresses CITU General Council • Central Government Employees Prepare For Countrywide United Mass-Action • Railwaymen: National Convention Serves Ultimatum On Govt. • Deadlock In Electricity Wage Negotiations : All India Strike Planned • State Government Employees Prepare For Strike Of April 9 • Jute Tripartite And After • Legislators Propose But … / Legal Notes • Ceat Tyre Workers In Bombay On Indefinite Strike • Joint Trade Unions Council Formed In The Andamans • Goa / Coca Cola Workers Continue Struggle • Newsletters: Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu • West Bengal: CITU Supports Striking Doctors & Engineers • Other Regular Features

1 Apr 1974

Ranadive, B. T.

• Presidential Address | B. T. Ranadive (From B. T. Ranadive on Trade Union Movement, Vol 1) • नए जंगी संग्राम की ओर बढ़ो - बी टी रणदिवे, सभापति, सी आई टी यू, उद्घाटन भाषण • Documents published in The Working Class, May 1974 ◦ Policy Statement On Productivity ◦ CITU General Council Calls For Country-wide Struggle

1 Apr 1974

Chatterjee, A. P., Priesto, Roberto

In This Issue: • May Day Manifesto Of The CITU 1974 • CITU General Council Calls For Country-wide Struggle • Policy Statement On Productivity • Railway Workers To Go On General Strike From May 8 • All India State Government Employees Strike—A Grand Success • Public Sector Undertakings And Their Aititude To Labour – A Sample – / Legal Notes • Electricity Employees’ Successful Struggle In Madras • AIPWF Working Committee Decides On Programme Of Struggle • Newsletters / Tamil Nadu, West Bengal • Strike By 6.5 Million Japanese Workers • Fascist Hell In Chile By Roberto Priesto • Other Regular Features

1 May 1974

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • ALL HELP TO THE VALIANT RAILWAY WORKERS – B. T. Ranadive • The Historic All-India Railway Strike / Day By Day • Magnificent Solidarity Action on May 15 • May Day Observed Amidst Countrywide Wave of Strike Struggles • Central Government Employees Solidarity With Railwaymen • Suppression of T.U. Rights Of Railway Workers • Railway Strike : ALR’s Lying Propaganda Nailed Down • May 3 : National Protest Action Day Observed • South Vietnam Workers In The Struggle Against U.S. Aggressors • May Day Pledge Of The Korean Workers • A Shameful Document / Legal Notes • India Government Violates ILO Convention “Equal Remuneration For Men And Women” • International Solidarity For Striking Railway Workers • Beedi Workers’ Conference / West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh • Comrade Ramaswamy • Other Regular Features

1 Jun 1974

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Fight Out The Victimisation Of Railwaymen With All Our Might • The Glorious Railway Strike And After, Repression Continues Even After Withdrawal • The AITUC Leadership And The Railway Strike • Amendments To The Constitution Of The CITU • Who Scuttled Central T.U.’s Solidarity With Railwaymen? • Who Are Patronising Gangsters In Durgapur? CITU Union’s Open Letter To Steel Minister • West Bengal Forest Workers Realise Demands Through Struggle • Closure Of Plantations Lead To Large Scale Unemployment • Law For Victimised Railway Employees / Legal Notes • Deihi ‘Statesman’ Workers Face Management & Goonda Attacks • Newsletters / Kerala, Tamilnadu, Goa, Maharashtra • CITU Demands Recognition of PRG of South Vietnam • Rising Working Class Struggles In Great Britain • Karnataka Textile Workers Get Wage Rise • Big Strike by M. P. State Transport Workers • Other Regular Features

1 Jul 1974

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Fight The Wage Freeze – B. T. Ranadive • Comrade Harekrishna Konar • Unite All Workers! Develop Fraternal Relations with the People! (Extracts From B. T. Randive's Speech Given At The A.L.R.T.W. Convention) • Against Victimisation of Railwaymen And Wage Freeze Ordinance : United Movement of Entire Working Class Planned • Railwaymen : United Struggle to Continue Under The Banner of NCCRS • CITU’s Activities In Defence of Railway Employees • A New Orientation? / Legal Notes • CITU State Committees Meet / Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, West Bengal • Newsletters / Kerala, West Bengal • West Bengal Jute Workers Observed Demands Day • Convention of Chemicals And Pharmaceutical Unions • Other Regular Features

1 Aug 1974

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Sinister Move For More Attacks On Workers’ Wages • CITU’s Note On Social Status Of Women In India • DIR And Right To Strike / Legal Notes • Ruthless Suppression Of T.U. Rights Of Spanish Workers • Protest Week Against Wage Freeze Ordinance • Infringement Of T. U. Rights In Japan, Complaint Lodged With I.L.O. • CITU Condemns Firing On Bharatpur Workers • All India Road Transport Workers’ Federation Formed • National Convention Against Wage Freeze • Country-wide Protest Actions Against Wage Freeze • CITU—Andhra Pradesh Committee Meets • CITU— Maharashtra Committee Executive Meets • Newsletters : Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan • Other Regular Features

1 Sept 1974

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Editorial: The Calculated Inaction Of The Union Labour Ministry • The Second Conference of Kerala State Committee of CITU • Legal Victory of Railwaymen / Legal Notes • Resolutions Adopted At the All India Convention of Working People Against Wage Freeze • General Strike In Kerala Against Wage Freeze • Bhilai Convention Against Wage Freeze & For Bonus • RAILWAYMEN: N.C.C.R.S. Goes Ahead • Convention of Power Workers To Plan Bigger All India Struggle • Successful All India Strike By Provident Fund Employees • Succesful One-day Strike By W. Bengal Jute Workers • Workers Demand Take-over of Sick & Closed Plantations • Ramamurii’s Reply To AITUC’s Slander • Chile Day Observed By Workers • All Over India Workers Demand Take-over of Sick & Closed Plantations • Newsletters: Tamilnadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Goa • Other Regular Features

1 Oct 1974

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • EDITORIAL A Futile Exercise To Hoodwink The Workers • Long Live The Great November Revolution • CITU Greets People’s China • Deceptive Explanation Of Fraudulent Index • Successful One day Strike By Ranigunj Colliery Workers • The CITU Secretariat Meets • Calcutta Dock Workers’ Struggle For Bonus And Other Demands • CITU Condemns Police Firing In Bihar • Report Of The Bonus Review Committee / Legal Notes • Bangladesh Jute Workers On Strike • Demands Week Observed By Road Transport Workers • W. Bengal Jute Workers Prepare For Continuous Strike • Durgapur Steel Workers’ Strike In Support Of Contract Workers • RAILWAYMEN: Loco Running Staff To Intensify Struggle • Struggle Of Calcutta Corporation Workers & Employees • CITU Condemns Police Firing in Bihar • Central Govt. Employees & Railwaymen Observe 19th September • Massive Anti-Wage Freeze Demonstration In Bharatpur • CITU Andhra Pradesh Committee Meets • Newsletters : Tamilnadu • Other Regular Features

1 Nov 1974

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P., Ghosh, Samarjit

In This Issue: • A Menacing Situation – B. T. Ranadive • CITU Memorandum To The Workers Education Review Committee • Movement Against Wage-Freeze All Over India • Newspaper Employees Need Action Programme – by Samarjit Ghosh, • Court Set Aside Removal Orders/Railwaymen • Absolute Liability/Legal Notes • West Bengal Beedi Workers To Go On Strike On Charter Of Demands • Maharashtra Bundh Of October 30—A Grand Success • Newsletters: Tamilnadu, Rajasthan, Kerala, West Bengal • Second Conference Of West Bengal CITU • SIMCO Workers join CITU • Scindia Employees Win Significant Victory • Other Regular Features

1 Dec 1974

Ranadive, B. T.

RESIST NEW CAPITALIST LANDLORD OFFENSIVE - Presidential Speech | B. T. Ranadive Documents published in The Working Class, January 1975: 1. The CITU Working Committee Reviews Struggles, pp. 3-5 2. FIGHT UNITEDLY. New Offensive Of Capitalists And Landlords | B. T. Ranadive Speaks At The Working Committee Meeting, pp. 9-16 3. CITU Working Committee Denounces The Bonus Review Committee Report, p. 20 4. CITU Opposes Arbitrary Introduction of New Index Series, p. 22 5. Comrade K. G. Bose, p. 24

1 Dec 1974