Date Issued

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

In This Issue: • Against Wage & DA Freeze, Victimisation & Repression. UCTU Calls For All India Protest Strike Action • Homage To The Memory of Comrade K. G. Bose • Fight Unitedly New Offensive Of Capitalists And Landlords—B. T. Ranadive • West Bengal Jute Workers To Go On Continuous Strike From January 6 • The CITU Working Committee Reviews Struggles • The Coal Agreement—A Balance Sheet • CITU Working Committee Denounces The Bonus Review Committee Report • CITU Opposes Arbitrary Introduction of New Index Series • Conventions Against Wage Freeze • West Bengal Jute Workers To Go On Continuous Strike From January 6 • Permanency of A Worker | Legal Notes • Kerala Newsletter • Other Regular Features

1 Jan 1975

Silva, L., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Lessons Of Port And Dock Strike • CITU’s Letter To ILO On Suppression of Trade Union Rights in West Bengal • Kuneitra In Ruins—L. Silva • Real Face of Nationalisation of Sick Textile Undertakings • Central Govt. Employees Defrauded • On The Question of D.A. • Second CITU Conference of West Bengal • First Conference of Orissa CITU • Jute Workers’ United Strike Continues • Railwaymen Continue The Struggle • W. Bengal T.U.’s Plan United Movement • Civil Court & Industrial Law/ Legal Notes • Real Face of Nationalisation of Sick Textile Undertakings • Indian Rare Earth Strike Ends In Victory • Newsletters: Kerala, Tamilnadu, Goa • CITU Criticises Port & Dock Agreement • Other Regular Features • 8-page Supplement On The Exploitation Of Indian Seamen

1 Feb 1975

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • The Rail Budget And The Railwaymen • For Unity And Struggle. Water Transport Workers’ Federation Formed • Heroic Jute Strike—A Balance Sheet • Power Workers Plan All India Movement • Forge Ahead For Struggles Call Given By All India Conference of Beedi & Cigar Workers • Third Conference of Rajasthan CITU • First Conference of Orissa CITU • Second ‘Conference Of Assam State CITU • The Right To Strike | Legal Notes • Railwaymen Force the Authorities To Negotiate • 8th General Conference of AIIEA Calls For Unity And United Struggles • Conference of Hindusthan Steel Employees Union, Durgapur • Conventions & Protest Actions Against Wage Freeze • Newsletters: Kerala, Tamil Nadu • W. Bengal T.U. Convention Calls For State-Wide Movement And General Strike • Other Regular Features

1 Mar 1975

Ranadive, Vimal, Umanath, R., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Forward To The Third Conference Of CITU • Condition of Indian Women in the International Women’s Year | Vimal Ranadive • Industrial Accidents And Role of Trade Unions | R. Umanath • Hospital And Industrial Law | Legal Notes • Arithmetic Of Agricultural Workers’ Life • Assam P.F. Scheme—A Fraud On Tea Garden Workers • Tamilnadu Committee of CITU Meets • National Campaign Committee Against Wage Freeze To Meet On April 9 • For Delegates To 3rd CITU Conference • State Govt. Employees & Teachers On Strike | Tripura • Port & Dock Workers And Seamen Observe Demands Day • Newsletters Goa, Gujarat • Other Regular Features

1 Apr 1975

Kolhatkar, S. Y., Ranadive, B. T., Ramamurti, P. +2

DOCUMENTS: 1. Welcome Speech | S. Y. Kolhatkar 2. Presidential Address | B. T. Ranadive 3. अध्यक्षीय भाषण | बी॰ टी॰ रणदिवे (Hindi) 4. General Secretary's Report | P. Ramamurti 5. General Secretary's Report | P. Ramamurti (Hindi) 6. Review Of Struggles | M. K. Pandhe 7. Review Of Struggles | M. K. Pandhe (Hindi) 8. CITU Faces Repression And Gangsterism 9. CITU Faces Repression And Gangsterism (Hindi) 10. Work Report | M. K. Pandhe 11. Report on Organisation And Struggles | M. K. Pandhe (Hindi) 12. Resolutions 13. Resolutions (Hindi) 14. Statement Of Accounts For The Years 1973 & 1974 | Samar Mukherjee 15. President's Concluding Speech | B. T. Ranadive - Unite All Sections Against Recession & Unemployment For T.U. & Democratic Rights 16. Presidential Address | B. T. Ranadive (Marathi)

1 May 1975

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

In This Issue: • Against Crisis Burdens Against One Party Dictatorship | B. T. Ranadive • May Day Manifesto Of The CITU, 1975 • Com. S. Y, Kolhatkar Attacked By Siva Sena Goondas • Government, Jute Barons Trying To Shift Burden Of Crisis On Workers • National Campaign Committee Decides To Intensify Anti-Wage Freeze Campaign • Anti-Emergency Day Observed Throughout India • L.R.S. A. Demands Reactivise NCCRS | Railwaymen • Anti-Wage Freeze Demonstrations & Conventions Held • Representation Of Parties Under Section 36 Of The Industrial Disputes Act | Legal Notes • Tisco Karmachari Union Joins The CITU • Hesalong Colliery 1 Worker Killed, 56 Injured By AITUC Goondas • CITU Hails The Liberation Of Cambodia • Newsletters | Kerala, Goa, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal • Other Regular Features

1 May 1975

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

In This Issue: • Third Conference of The CITU Calls For Greater Unity To Fight The Capitalist Landlord Offensive • Strengthen The Unity In Action! Fight The Coming Offensive | B. T. Ranadive Addresses The Third Conference • Overcome The Weaknesses, Carry Forward The Class Line of Unity & Struggle | Extracts from The Report of Com. P. Ramamurti, General Secretary, to the Third Conference of the CITU • Third Conference of Punjab & Himachal CITU • Delhi Regional CITU Conference • Second Conference of All India Plantation Workers Federation • Realisation From Employers | Legal Notes • Railmen Pledge Preserving And Strengthening Unity • Other Regular Features

1 Jun 1975

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Overseas Organisation Of Spanish Workers Appeals For Solidarity • Freedom Of Association : An International Survey • Background Of Japanese Spring Struggle 1975 • The Girijans And Harijans In Andhra • Recession In Western Countries • Japanese Railwaymen Fight Against Victimisation And For “Right To Strike” • Agriculture And Industrial Disputes Act | Legal Notes • Successful General Strike In Argentina • New Secretariat And General Council Of CITU • CITU Foundation Day Observed • Other Regular Features

8 Jul 1975

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Message Of Fraternal Solidarity From Vietnam Trade Union Federation • Ernst Thaelmann In Nazi Prison • Kerala’s Cashew Industry In Crisis • Job Seekers : An Analysis • Share of Wages In Production • Safety In Textile Industry • Dispute Between Co-operative Society And Its Employees | Legal Notes • Ruthless Exploitation By Money Lenders In The Dhanhad Coalfields • Agreement In Steel Industry • BCMU Protests Against Anti- Worker Practices of Jute Mills • Other Regular Features

1 Sept 1975

Nguyen Minh Vy, Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Greetings To The Working Class And People Of China • Comrade Bhairav Bharati • The Struggle Of The Working Class And Urban Popular Masses In South Vietnam | Nguyen Minh Vy • Trade Unionists And Black Money • Part-time Employment of Workers—An International Survey • ILO Convention On Freedam of Association And Protection Of Right to Organise • BCMU Submits Memorandum On All-Round Attack On Jute Workers • Dearness Allowance For Workers / Legal Notes • Indebtedness Of Ahmedabad Textile Workers • Closures, Lay-offs And Retrenchments In Engineering Industry In West Bengal • Maharashtra State Committee of CITU Meets • Tamil Nadu Newsletier | State Committee Meets • Money Lending In Chhattisgarh Region Of Madhya Pradesh • Crisis In Kanpur Textile Mills • Other Regular Features

1 Oct 1975

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Scrap The Bonus Ordinance | Jyoti Basu • For A New International Labour Standard. CITU Memorandum to ILO. • Greetings To Th: Working Class And People of USSR • Review of Implementation Of Tenancy Legislation In India • CITU Condemns Execution Of Spanish Patriots • Nature And Extent Of Mass Poverty In Asia • The Doctrine Of Loss Of Confidence | Legal Notes • Trade Unions In Sri Lanka Fight For Nationalisation Of Plantations • CITU Convention On Bonus & Flood Relief • DA Formula For Central Government Employees • Newsletters | Kerala, Tamil. Nadu • Mills Facing Crists • Other Regular Features

1 Nov 1975

Basu, Jyoti, Ramamurti, P.

MINUTES 1. Minutes of the meeting 2. Opening Speech by Com. Jyoti Basu (Vice President) 3. Resolutions adopted in the meeting a) On Com. Bhairav Bharatiya b) Condolence resolution on Com. Shamsul Huda c) On Repression on Railway Workers d) On Arrests and victimisation of Central & State Govt. Employees e) On Execution of Spanish revolutionaries f) On Emergency and the Working class g) On the struggle of the IDPL employees, Hyderabad h) On Equal pay for equal work i) On Bonus Ordinance j) On Bonded Labour k) On India U.S.A. Joint Commission l) On Retrenchment, Lay-off and Closures m) On Govt's scheme of "Participative Management" 4. Report by Com. P. Ramamurti, General Secretary 5. Information Documents: (a) Report from Hooghly District, W.B. (b) Text on Ordinance on Equal Pay for women (c) Workers participation in management Scheme prepared by Union Labour Ministry (d) "Guidelines" for Seven-day working (e) A note on bonus struggle of the IDPL employees Hyderabad (f) Twelve point programme drawn by Ministry of energy (g) Ashort report on West Bengal by Com. Manoranjan Roy (h) Position of bonus (1975) in W. B. (i) Report of Western Madhya Pradesh by Com. Md. Ismail, M.P. Vice-President (j) Report of the activities of Koila Shramik Sangh, Bishrampur (k) Struggle of J. K. Jute Mill Workers for bonus (l) Report on Rajasthan Trade Union (m) Memorandum to State Labour Minister West Bengal by Jute workers (n) Memorandum to State Labour Minister West Bengal by Federation of Metal and Engineering Workers Unions

1 Nov 1975

Dutt, Rajani Palme, Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • CITU Working Committee Reviews Situation • The System Of Fascism by Rajni Palme Dutt • Resolutions Adopted At The CITU Working Committee Meeting • Nutrition And Calory-gap Among Agricultural Workers In India • Magnificent Unity Of J. K. Jute Workers Against Management Attacks • Working Of A Public Sector Mine—A Case Study • Setilement— On What Terms? • All India Bidi and Cigar Workers’ Committee Meets • Equal Wages for Women Workers • The Out-Moded Doctrine Of Master And Servant | Legal Notes • Tamilnadu Newsletter • Other Regular Features

1 Dec 1975

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • CITU Working Committee On Govt.’s Scheme Of “Participative Management” • Japanese Workers’ Struggle For Right To Strike • Employment Of Child Labour In Indian Agriculture • 37th Annual Conference Of Bengal Chatkal Mazdoor Union • Increasing Mechanisation In Indian Agriculture • The Turn About/Legal Notes • Industrial Disputes Highest During 1974 • Victory Of CITU Union In Andhra Paper Mill • Big Victory For Adityapur Engineering Workers • Workers In Capitalist Countries On Struggle Path • Contractor Workers In M. P. Fight Retrenchment • 8000 Railwaymen Awaiting Reinstatement • Tamilnadu Newsletter • Salary Payment By Cheque : How Will lt Work? • Other Regular Features

1 Jan 1976

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Suspension Of Seven Freedoms And Working Class • Comrade Chou En-Lat • Chasnala Disaster • Multi-National Cartels In Drug Indusiry • Magistrate Orders Thorough Enquiry • Declining Trend In Utilisation of Industrial Capacity • Output of 50 Industries Declines In 1975-76 • Regional Rural Banks And The Bank Employees • Chasnala Tragedy | Legal Notes • Railwaymen Win Their Cases • In Parliament • J. K. Jute Mill Workers Submit Memorandum To U. P. Governor • ClTU Application On Pre-Censorship In Calcutta High Court • Unequal Wages Still Continue In Plantations • Anti-Labour Agreement In Ritz Continental Hotel • Other Regular Features

1 Feb 1976

Nguyen Trong Con

In This Issue: • The Safety And Healthiness Of The Working Environment • Thirty years of Vietnamese Trade Unions – Nguyen Trong Con • Size And Distribution Of Land Holdings In India • How New China Keeps Commodity Prices Stable • Status of Women Workers • 32 Women Workers Retrenched in Ritz Continental Hotel • A Total Ban On Closures • Situation in Bihar Martin Railways • Kota Atomic Power Workers Face Retrenchment • Anti-Worker Move Of J. K. Rayon Management Foiled • Tamilnadu Newsletter • Death Toll Since Chasnala Disaster • CITU Appears Before Chasnala Court Of Enquiry • TUI Body Protests Against Victimization Of Hotel Workers • Other Regular Features

1 Mar 1976

Nguyen Trong Con, Chatterjee, A. P.

n This Issue: • The Economic Survey And The Budget • General Strike In Ceylon In Support Of Govt. Press Workers • Thirty Years Of Vietnamese Trade Unions | Nguyen Trong Con [Continued from previous issue] • Railway Board On Railwaymen’s Strike • Railway Budget – Between The Lines • Again On The Meaning Of “Industry” | Legal Notes • Tamil Nadu Newsletter • Karnataka Newsletter • Com. Gerald Pereira • Other Regular Features

1 Apr 1976

Nguyen Trong Con, Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • May Day Manifesto Of The CITU—1976 • An Unprecedented Legislation | Legal Notes • Anti Social Elements Arrested In Bisrampur Collieries • Thirty Years of Vietnamiese Trade Union | Nguyen Trong Con [Continued from previous issue] • Apartheid on the High Seas • CITU’S Statement Before Chasnala Court Of Enquiry • Whither National Apex Body? • Big Victory For CITU Union In Durgapur Co-operative Elections • Andhra Newsletter • Other Regular Features

1 May 1976

Nguyen Trong Con, Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Surmount Difficulties With United Effort Of Workers • Salary And Bonus As Property | Legal Notes • The INTUC In Banking Industry • Thirty Years of Vietnamiese Trade Union | Nguyen Trong Con [Continued from previous issue] • P. F. Deposit Insurance For Railmen • CiTU-Andhra Pradesh Committee Meets • May Day Observed • Automation In Calcutta Electric Supply Company • Parliamentary Committee Endorses Plantation Workers Demands • West Bengal Tripartite Meet On Jute Industry • Take-over Of Sick Tea Gardens And The Workers • News From Sri Lanka • Former Chasnala Surveyor Says He Warned The IISCO Management • Other Regular Features

1 Jun 1976

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • CITU’s Stand On Proposed Constitution Amendments • Industrial Disputes in the Private Sector • CITU Condemns Racial Attacks In U.K. And Sonth Africa • Tatas Pocket Rs. 11 Crores! • Inflation Benefits Whom? • Railwaymen: NFIR Convention at Triupati • Annual Meeting of Eastern Railwaymen’s Union • Other Froms of Bonus | Legal Notes • Finances And Working Of Big Business In 1973-74 • ILO Admits CITU’s Complaint • What Caused Second Chasnala Disaster ? • Tamilnadu Newsletter • Andhra Pradesh Newsletter • Retrenchment In Bunge & Co. • Book Review: Bharater Shramik Andolaner Itihas Vol. 1 and II By Sukomal Sen • WFTU And Solidarity with Brazilian Workers • INTUC And Tea Plantation Wages • Other Regular Features

1 Jul 1976