Coal

Ranadive, B. T., Ganguly, P. K.

In This Issue: • Comrade P. Sundarayya • Working Committee Meeting Of CITU, Trivandrum, May 31-June 2, 1985: Presidential Address— B. T. Ranadive • Protest by Central Govt. Employees • Second Conference of SWFI • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Revoke Illegal Break in Service: LRSA • Leader Valve Workers Struggle • Seminar on Bhopal Gas Tragedy • All India Day Against Lockout, Closure, Retrenchment and Denotification • Conference of Insurance Employees • Meeting on Workers’ Participation in Management • Around The States: Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Orissa, Delhi, Maharashtra • Women’s Struggle: Tamilnadu Co-ordination Committee Meets • Victory Over Fascism: Celebration of the 40th Anniversary in Indla • International Trade Union Conference: On 40th Anniversary of Victory Over Fascism — P.K. Ganguly • Comrade Saradish Roy • CITU Extends Support to Sau Paulo Metal Workers Strike • CITU’s Response to Appeal by Bulgarian Trade Union • CITU’s Solidarity to British Coalminers • Contribution to British Coalminers’ Struggle • International Struggles

1 Jun 1985

Pandhe, M. K., Gupta, Ramnika

In This Issue: • Comrade Konstatin Ustinovich Chernenko • Expert Committee On Textiles: Sinister Conspiracy Against Workers – M. K. Pandhe • On Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Central Trade Unions to Hold Seminar • CITU Secretariat Decisions • Book Review: “Panorama of P&T Union Movement” by N. J. Tyer • Railwaymen’s Struggle: LRSA Working Committee decides for Agitation • The Budget for Fleecing the People • Concessions to Big Business with a Populist Stance • CITU Denounces the Anti-People Railway Budget • Around The States: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh • Contribution To British Coalminers’ Struggle • Joint Movement by Jute Workers • Unfair Labour Practice by Kala Kendra Management • Reception to ACFTU Delegation • Comrade Parimal Mitra • Illegal Activities of Central Coal Limited - Ramnika Gupta • No Unanimity on D.A. • Conference of SWFI • Demand for Nationalisation of Bengal Potteries and National Tannery • International Women’s Day: Greetings by AICCWW • International Struggles

1 Apr 1985

In This Issue: • Countrywide Protest Actions: Government Guillotined Against Price Rise • All India Strike of Coal Miners • Indian Labour Conference: CITU Rejects Government's Conclusions • In Support of DUTA Strike • Railwaymen's Struggle: Towards Broad Based Unity • Book Review: "May Diwas Ki Gourab Gatha" By Kedarnath Bhattacharya • Meeting of Steei Advisory Committee • Increasing Demand to Amend Art. 311(2) • NBCC Locked Out: Vandalism by NBCC Management • CITU Opposes Increase in Tuition Fees • Secretariat Decisions • Meeting of Water Transport Workers Federation • General Council Meeting • Working Committee Meeting • Around The States: Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andaman & Nicobar, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi • Parliament Member Condemns Repression on Kishans • Women’s Struggle: AIDWA Takes Struggle Programmes • CITU Denounces Shooting Down Drought Stricken People of Rajasthan • Demand for Take over of Titagarh Paper Mill • Observe May Day This Year To Commemorate The Centenary Of Chicago Hay­ Market Massacre Of Workers • For Peace, National Integration And Against Apartheid: Declaration by Central Trade Unions • Meeting of Coal Advisory Council • Request for May Day Posters from Yugoslavia • Appeal of AUCCTU to the Working People and Trade Unions of the World • International Struggles

1 Mar 1986

Ranadive, B. T., Sharma, Vijender, Chakraborty Nripen +7

In This Issue: • Defend The Left-Led Governments – B. T. Ranadive • May Day Manifesto of the CITU-1981 • Prepare for the Struggles Ahead. On the Occasion of the May Day, Nripen Chakraborty, Chief Minister, Tripura, has sent the following Message • May Day : Origin and Significance – Vijender Sharma • Tripura Left Front Govt. Marches Ahead – Nripen Chakraborty • “People Source of Strength of Tripura LF Government” – Dasarath Deb • Tripura: Progress For The Poor – D. D. Deb Roy • One Year of Left Democratic Front Government of Kerala – E. K. Nayanar • Main Features of Kerala Budget • Public Distribution System: Kerala Experience • Labour and Employment Policy of Left Front Govt. of West Bengal - Krishnapada Ghosh, Minister for Labour • For An Alternative Policy — Chittabrata Majumdar, Minister for Small Scale Industries • Progressive Education Policy of the Left Front Govt. of West Bengal —Partha De, Minister for Secondary & Primary Education • Land Reforms Measures in West Bengal • West Bengal Newsletter: Orgy of Murder and Arson. Latest Weapon in the Toppling Game • Punishment Without Reason | Legal Notes - Arun Prokas Chatterjee • 26 March Kisan Rally. Working Class Solidarity with the Peasants • Contract Workers’ Struggle Continues : Numerous Workers Arrested • All India Convention Against Multinationals in Drug Industry • Agitation of Medical and Sales Representatives • Central Govt’s Anti-People Drug Policy – J. S. Majumdar • World Conferenee Against Transnationals in Pharmaceutical Industry • Successful General Strike in Delhi. CITU congratulates workers • NGOs Conference at Port Blair • All India Coal Workers Federation Formed • CITU Participates in May Day Celebrations in Moscow and Havana • All India TU Convention Against Price Rise and Anti-Labour Policies • Energy Minister Blows His Own Trumpet • BHEL Unions Demand Reconstitution of Joint Forum • CITU Supports the United Struggle of LIC Employees • CITU Demands U.P. Chief Minister’s Intervention in Raza Textile Strike • Railway News: Repression on Railwaymen Continues • Increasing Repression on Workers in Haryana. Firing on the Workers of Gopichand Textile Mills in Sirsa

1 May 1981

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

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

Mukherjee, Samar, Pandhe, M. K., Ranadive, Vimal +3

In This Issue: • May Day Manifesto of the CITU 1991 • Com. Jamini Saha • Revive Revolutionary Traditions of May Day – Samar Mukherjee • Conditions of Working Class In U.S.A. – M. K. Pandhe • Comrade Satwant Singh • Appeal to Women For the Elections – Vimal Ranadive • Unity Week Observed in Tamilnadu • CITU Condemns Peerless Management’s Highhandedness and Injunjunction against Demonstration • Demand For Nationalisation Of Jute Industry • Meeting of Assam State Committee • Meeting of Orissa State Committee • Haryana Brick-Kiln Workers Carry Forward Struggle • Demand for Accountability by the Former IDPL Chairman • Conference of Karnataka Plantation Workers • NPCC Management Plays Fraud with CITU Union • Meeting of Coal Federation • On First Death Anniversary: Remembering Comrade B.T.R. – E. Balanandan • Death Anniversary of Com. BTR Observed All over India • Challenges before the Working Class – P. K. Ganguly • Stability and Social Justice – Jibon Roy • Seventh Conference of CITU, Calcutta, February 12-17, 1991: Resolutions - On Unorganised Workers, On Workers Participation in Management, On Right to Work, On Construction Workers, On Contract Workers, On Textile Industry, On Coal Industry, On Steel Industry, On Oi} & Petroleum Industry, On Fertilizer Industry, On Struggle Against Illiteracy, On Child Labour, Other Resolutions • Tamilnadu State CITU’s Call to Defeat Cong(l)—ADMK Alliance • Homage to Com. BTR • One Day Strike in Madras

1 May 1991

Ranadive, B. T.

In This Issue: • On May Day Centenary CITU General Council's Stirring Call • CITU General Council Meeting, Calcutta, March 31-April 2, 1986: Presidential Address - B.T. Ranadive • CITU General Council Meeting, Calcutta, March 31-April 2, 1986: Stirring Call to Strengthen Organisation • General Council Meeting, Calcutta, March 31-April 2, 1986: Resolutions • M.Ps' Memorandum to U.S. President • Convention Against Communalism • American Brinkmanship – B. T. Ranadive • Conference of Water Transport Workers • Dharna by BEFI • Around The States: Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Maharashtra, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh • Glorious Strike of Coal Workers • Railwaymen's Struggle: "Meet the Challenge to Job Security Unitedly"—Calcutta Convention • Working Committee Meeting of SWFI • Massive Rally Against Muslim Women's Bill • CITU Hails Successful Bharat Bundh • On Labour in Parliament • National Convention against Communalism and Divisive Forces • NCC Calls for Countrywide Struggle against Economic Policy of Central Government • Save Public Sector Day — May 21 • Joint May Day Appeal by CITU and AITUC to the Working Class of India • WFTU Message of the First of May, 1986

1 May 1986

Ghosh, Kali, Dakshi, Ardhendu, Varada Rajan, W. R. +1

In This Issue: • Com Sukhdev Singh • Yugoslavian Embassy Thanks CITU • To The People For A New Mandate! • CITU Manifesto For May Day 1999 • 35th Session Of ILC: Workers’ Side Protests ‘Tailking Shop’ Exercise • CITU Highlights Workers’ Resentment • Industrial Sickness And Employment Generation: Strident Criticism Of 35 Session Of ILC: Govt Indifference • Alternative Approach Outlined Before ILC: "Review Policy Of Mindless Privatisation And Liberalisation" • Crisis Of Indian Railways And The Status Paper • Employees State Insurance Scheme (ESI) - Need For Speedy Overhauling - Kali Ghosh & Ardhendu Dakshi • ‘Oasis’: Code Name For Milking Workers’ Funds To Quench The Greed Of Big Business – W. R. Varada Rajan • Diversion of PF/Pension Funds to Private Sector Mutual Fund flayed • Southern Initiative Against Globalisation • Nationwide Strike Of Coal Miners On 11-12 May – M. K. Pandhe • CITU Himachal Pradesh Decides Future Action • Steel Workers Federation Conference • Newspaper Employees Strike • All India Locomen Meet • Construction Workers’ Conference • Rajasthan: CITU Workshop On Organisation • HP: Anganwadi Workers • Committee Of Public Sector Trade Unions Notice • Tamilnadu: CITU - ILO Training Camp • Demands Of SAIL Contract Workers • High Court Reinstates Contract Workers • International Demand For Halt To Liberalisation, Review Of WTO Role • Supreme Court Upholds Contract Workers’ Right To Regular Job • Denial Of Subsistence Allowance, Inhuman: SC

1 May 1999

Ranadive, B. T., Mukherjee, Samar, Pandhe, M. K.

In This Issue: • Goodwill Delegation of CITU to China • Working Committee Meeting of CITU, Jamshedpur, November 30-December 2, 1983, Presidential Speech—B. T. Ranadive • Asian Metal Workers’ Seminar • Call Of CITU Working Committee: Step Up Peace Struggles, Fight Against Lockouts, Closures, Price-rise • General Secretary's Report (Abridged Form)—Samar Mukherjee • Resolutions: On Danger of War and Struggle for Peace, On Sri Lanka, On Movement for Restoration of Democracy in Pakistan, On Bangladesh, On Price Rise, On Growing Lockouts, On Closures, Industrial Sickness & Denotification, On Struggle Against Divisive Forces, On Struggles of the Peasants & Agricultural Workers, On Nationalisation of the Jute Industry, On Nationalisation of the Textile Industry, On Working Women, On the Struggle of Central Government Employees, On the Struggle of Railway Employees, On the Struggle of Coal Mine Workers, On the Bank Agreemont, On the Assam Industrial Relief Undertaking (Special Provisions) Bill, 1983, On the Trade Union (West Bengal) Amendment Bill, 1983, On Gangster Attacks on CITU Activists, On Hindusthan Pilkington Glass Factory, On Kalidaspur & Kankar Tala Coal Project, On the Struggle of the Metal Box Workers, On Supply of Coal to Small Scale Industries & for Domestic Use, On Closure of Bengal Paper Mill • Glorious Tripura Bundh • Medical Representatives to Strike • I.D.P.L. Federation Formed • Bank Employees’ Struggle • Com. Sadashiv Bagaitkar • Convention Against Lockouts, Closures • Observance of December 4 • Convention of Working Women • Social Welfare Women Workers on Struggle • Meeting of CITU Secretariat • Coal Workers to Intensify Struggle • Samar Mukherjee Addresses AITUC Conference • FDGB Delegation Meets CITU • WFTU General Secretary Visits CITU • Indefinite Strike in Jute Industry • Port & Dock Workers Prepare For Struggle • LIC Workers’ Strike • Tripartite Meeting in Brick Kiln • Around The States: Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Tripura • Conspiracy to Perpetuate Fraudulent Price Index – M. K. Pandhe • Railway News: Strike in Protest of R.P.F. Brutality • Appeal of the 30th Session of the WFTU Bureau: To Workers and TUs in all Countries; CITU’s Reply • Com. Durga Das Shirali • Comrade P. K. Kurane • International Struggles Against Euromissiles

1 Jan 1984

In This Issue: • Denounce U.S. Provocation – B.T. Ranadive • Massive Preparation for Bengal Bundh • Coal Miners’ Protest Day — Oct. 5 • Govt’s Apathy Towards Mines Accidents • Commonwealth T.U. Director Visits CITU • D.A. Committee: Government Wavering on Upward Revision • Prosecution of Coal Companies • National Campaign Committee: Convention Against Lock-outs, Closures • Karnataka TU school at Bangalore • CITU Secretariat's Call: Make the N.C.C. programmes a success; Intensify Struggles Against Closures, Lock-outs; Prepare for Struggle on D.A. Issue • Finance Minister And Monopoly Houses • Magnificent Strike by Bank Employees • New Phase of Struggle of J.K. Synthetics Workers • Tripartite Committee On Chemical Industry: Government Parries Off Questions • Meeting of Minimum Wages Advisory Board • Modinagar Workers Fight Gangsterism • Collapse of All Labour Legislations – Nrisingha Chakrabarty • Around The States: Haryana, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Delhi • Industrial Meetings (Reports of the industrial meetings held at New Delhi during the Second National Convention): Beedi & Cigar Workers’ Committee, Construction Workers’ Convention, Electricity Workers’ Meeting, Plantation Workers’ Federation, Pharmaceutical Workers’ Federation, Conference of Road Transport Workers’ Federation, ITC Workers’ Federation, Convention of the Unorganised Workers • Book Review: The Danger of Multinationals • CITU Condemns Kandla Firing • Protest Day by State Govt. Employees • Joint Movement by Port and Dock Workers • Valiant Struggle by Women Workers in Kanak Industries • Against War & For Peace: September 1 Observed Around the World • CITU’s Telegramme to Sri Lanka • Delhi CITU Condemns Police Action

1 Oct 1983

In This Issue: • Strike Call By NCC On Save Democracy Day — August 25 • Coalminers’ Solidarity Day • Struggle In Coal Industry: Joint Action Committee Serves Ultimatum • Eight Days Wage Deduction Illegal • Violation of Safety Rules in Coal Mines • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Indefinite Strike Decision by AIRF • INTUC Wiped Out By Complete Strike in Heavy Engineering Corporation • CITU Demands Central Govt. Intervention • Dharna by Central Government Employees • No Settlement on DA in Public Sector Undertakings • CITU Protests Against BHEL Circular • Textile Workers Demand Nationalisation of Textile Industry • CITU Congratulates Workers For Participation In Save Democracy Day • Road Transport Workers’ Conference • Multinationals Violate the Labour Laws • Agricultural Workers’ Convention • CITU Secretariat Meeting • Workers Observe Punjab Week • Stalemate in Wage Talks in 67 Public Sector Units • Around The States: Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu • General Council Meeting • Raptakos Brett Field Workers Court Arrest • CITU Condemns Banning of Strikein I.E.L. • SWFI Office Bearers Meeting • Govt. Ignores Workers Proposal on Chairman of NSC • Electricity Workers Observe Anti-repression Day • Steel & Coal Workers Contribute to CITU Solidarity Fund • Workers Court Arrest Against Sale of Public Undertaking to Private Hands • CITU Supports Junior Doctors’ Struggle • CITU Delegation Visits China • International Struggles

1 Sept 1984