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Ranadive, B. T., Mukherjee, Samar

In This Issue: • All Parties And Organisations Hail The 19th January Call – B. T. Ranadive • ILO Indicts Government of India • National Campaign Committee’s Complaint to ILO Against Government of India • New Phase Of Struggle Against Multinationals • Government Employees Prepare For January 19 Strike • Despite ESMA And Shoot-At-Sight Orders Bihar NGO’s Victorious Strike • Committee On ILO Conventions : Dilatory Tactics Of Government Criticised • Central Trade Unions Criticise Working of the Factories Act • All India Strike by J. K. Workers • Bombay Engineering Workers Strike • Victory of Jnanoday Workers • Stop Automation in Printing Industry • Make The One-Day General Strike A Grand Success • Forward To The Stupendous Task-National Compaign Committee • CITU Bags All Co-operative Seats • Central Trade Unions Reject New Verification Procedure • Gaziabad Workers Strike Demanding Minimum Wage • Reserve Bank Employees Struggle Against Award • P.W.D. Workers’ Struggle in M.P. • Com. P. K. Moitra Released : Simplex Strike Enters Ninth Month • Railway News - Restore Normalcy in Indian Railways – Samar Mukherjee • All Set For Steel Workers’ Convention • International Conference Against Drug Multinationals • CITU Demands Tripartite Meeting in Cement Industry • Karnataka State Council of CITU Meets • Secessionist Forces Kill CITU Activist • Delhi University Teachers’, Employees’ Struggle • Orissa News Letter : Women’s T. U. Activities Increase In Orissa • Closure of Kamrup Paper Mills • Delhi Workers Demonstrate • T. U. School in Punjab

1 Jan 1982

In This Issue: • Against E.S.M.O. Protests Develop into Resistance. Strike in Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura • The CITU Congratulates People and Working Class of Kerala, West Bengal, Tripura • At the Call of Bombay Convention Workers March Ahead • National Campaign Committee To Intensify Campaign • Greetings to the People’s Republic of China • All India Joint Convention Of Working Women • Air hostess • Coal Workers To Fight Non-Implementation National Agreement • Army Officer Drives Through BRO Employees • Railway News: P. Ramamurti’s message to General Secretary AIRF • The Historic Parliament Session • Bankura District Beedi Workers’ Convention • Joint Morcha By Beedi Workers • Hyderabad Aluminium Industries Contract Workers On Strike • CITU Denounces War Against Angola • Economists Express Concern At IMF Loan • Orissa State Council Meets • General Council Resolutions: On Sixth Five Year Plan; On The Tasks Of Bombay Convention And Trade Union Unity; On U.S. Arming Of Pakistan; On Threatening War Danger And Struggle For Peace; On The Tenth World Trade Union Congress; On Unemployment; On Collapse Of Labour And Safety Legislations • First Conference Of Himachal Pradesh CITU • CITU Condemns Attack on Workers Families • Barbarous Lathi-Charge at Andaman-Nicobar on August 15 • Workers’ Struggle Force Government to Take over “Sick” Unit • Water Front Workers Prepare For All India Movement • Meeting of Construction & Sub-Contractors Workers • Engineering Workers Meeting • Struggle in J.K. Rayons and Kanpur Jute Udyog Continues • Steel Workers’ to Hold All India Convention • Electricity Workers Prepare For Joint Movement • Victory of CITU Union in Secret Ballot • Comrade A. Balasubramaniam

1 Oct 1981

In This Issue: • Resist Anti Labour Black Bills • Textile Workers Strike • Rajasthan Electricity Workers’ Strike • Joint Conventions in Public Sector Undertakings • June 4 Protest Day • Central TUs Boycott Productivity Meet • Central Trade Unions Complain Regarding Workers Delegation to I.L.O. Session • Birth Centenary of Georgi Dimitrov • CITU Denounces Israeli Aggression in Western Asia • Mines Development Workers on Struggle • BHEL Workers Prepare for All India Movement • Comrade Pankaj Acharya • Government Refuses to Fix Criteria for Minimum Wages • CITU Observes Foundation Day • All India Protest Day By Cement Workers • Coal Miners Prepare For Countrywide Movement • Railway News: Lock-out in Guntupalli Wagon Workshop S.C. Rly. • Whither Organisation of Safety in Indian Mines • Working Women: Retrograde “Understanding” by T.L.A. • Around The States: Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh • Youth Unemployment—Main Concern • News In Brief • International Struggles Against Repression, For Jobs and Against War

1 Jul 1982

Ramamurti, P.

In This Issue: • Defeat Imperialist Conspiracies Against The Socialist World - B. T. Ranadive • Forward To November 23 • States Complete Conventions • ESMA is a Penal Law • Police Escalate Repression In Assam Tea Gardens. Workers Killed in Police Custody : Firing at Nagrijuli & Herchura • All India Plantation Workers Meet • Bangladesh Bank Employees Struggle • Head Load Workers’ Victory • Samar Mukherjee’s Letters To Smt. Gandhi: Restore Normal Labour Relations In Indian Railways • Notwithstanding NSA, ESMA • Gandhian Principles in Trade Unions mean Theory of Class Collaboration—Anti-Strike Trusteeship – P. Ramamurti • Coal India Management Scuttling Bipartite Forum • Advance of CITU in Gujarat • World Congress Of Women • All India Steel Workers Convention—8-10 January 1982 • BHEL Bonus issue Partially Settled • Seminar On The Drug Industry And The Indian People • West Bengal News Letter: Successful Bonus Struggle • “Voice Of America” Against Reaganomics • Bata Workers’ Strike • Convention of J.K. Workers • CITU indicts Government Labour Policy • Simplex Strugglie Continues • Convention Against Drug Multinationals • TUI Secretary Visits CITU • Hosiery Workers Strike • Greetings To The AUCCTU

1 Nov 1981

In This Issue: • Resist Imposition Of Wage Freeze • Violations Of Trade Union Rights In India • Central Trade Unions Expose Government’s Anti-People Policies • ILO Committee on Work on Plantation • CITU Denounces Notification On N.S.A. • CITU Condemns Increase In P. & T. Service Charges • Chowgule Matrix Hobs Workers on Indefinite Strike • Steel Workers to Launch Country Movements • Dilatory Tactics Of BHEL Mangement • Country Wide Response On January 19 • Railway News: Indian Locomen Express Solidarity With British Locomen • World Medical Association President Calls For Nationalisation Of Multinational Drug Companies • Turmoil In J. K. Industries At Kanpur • Philippines Workers Congratulate Indian Workers For 19th January Strike • Conference of Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation • CITU Condemns Repression on Workers in Turkey and Colombia • Sixth Congress of Korean Trade Unions • Tenth World Trade Union Congress • A Resolute ‘No’ To War • In Parliament: Bombay Textile Strike • Union Bank Employees’ Strike • Standing Committee Meeting On Bonded, Migrant And Casual Labour • Tripartite Settlement In Medimpex • Indefinite Strike In Barsua Mines

1 Mar 1982

In This Issue: • Forward to the Mighty Mobilisation of the Working Class. All India Day on November 3 • Assam Plantation Workers Fight Repression • The CITU General Council to Meet in Howrah • CITU Criticises Prime Minister’s Statement • Women Protest Against Price Rise • Joint Trade Union Convention in States • Struggle in J.V. Electronics, Faridabad • Coal Workers Demonstrate • Govt. Employees Struggle for TU and Democratic Rights • CITU Condemns Repression on Simplex Workers at Bhilai • CITU Delegation Visits USSR • CITU Delegation to China • Settlement in Neyvelli Lignite Corporation • Memorandum to Sonepat D.C. • The Woes of the Rural Unorganised Labour • Beedi, Cigar Workers on Path of Struggle • Tamilnadu Textile & Handloom Industry : Low Wages & High Workloads • CITU Blames SAIL Management for Low Production • All India Demands day by HSCL Workers • Third Conference of Orissa State CITU • Labour Aristocracy in South Korea • Observe August 17 as Black Day • Railway News: Samar Mukherjee Assails Policy of Victimisation • Bihar CITU Meets • U.P. CITU Meets • Delhi Workers Demand Better Wages • Jute Workers’ Massive Agitation • Jute Workers Donate for Biharsharif Victims • Petrol Price Rise Condemned • Tamilnadu Govt. Policy Hit 2 Lakh Handloom Workers • Victory of Medimpex Workers • Gruesome Murder of Jaiprakash in Modinagar • Yet Another Attack on Sirsa Textile Workers

1 Aug 1981

Ranadive, B. T.

In This Issue: • Rally Resolves for Country-wide One Day Strike • On to One Day Strike - B. T. Ranadive • Assam Tea Garden Workers Continue Grim Struggle • Meghalaya State Convention • All Industries Strike In Goa • Management-Hoodlums Cause Rampage In Textile Mills • Take Over Of Mills Demanded • Hindusthan Ferodo Strike Enters Fifth Month • High-handedness By Missionary Institute • Police Repression on Colliery Workers • West Bengal: Victory By Bank Staff Through Strike Actions • Strike Demanding Implementation of Palekar Award • Strike by P.U. Staff • Dharna By BGML Workers • Gujarat Newsletter: Growing Attacks and Rising Struggles • World Trade Union Conference on Peace And Disarmament • Message From Com. Chen Yu, Vice Chairmans, All China Federation of Trade Unions, to Com. P. Ramamurti, General Secretary, CITU • Victory By HSCL Workers • CITU Condemns Repression On U.P. Jail Staff • Violation of Agreement by SAIL Unit • CITU Greetings to GFTUK Korea • Workers’ Participation In Management. Resolution on Govt’s Scheme of ‘Participative Management’ • Tamil Nadu Newsletter • Message Of CITU To CGIL Italy • The Historic March. All India Strike On 19th January • Indian Workers in London Protest Against ESMA • Dilatory Tactics of BHEL Management • Railway News: World Bank Loan-Public-Railway Men • National Campaign Committee and Railwaymen • CITU Demands Need Based Minimum Wage • All india Convention of Working Women Formulates Charter of Demands • Drug Seminar Calls for Nationalisation of Multinationals

1 Dec 1981

In This Issue: • July 8—Another Eventful Day • CITU Congratulates the Working Class for Observing ‘Anti-labour Black Bills Day’ • Hospital and Other Employees Prepare for Movement • No Progress in BHEL Wage Negotiations • Cement Workers Observe Demands Day • HSCI management cancles Joint Forum Meetting • Beedi Workers’ Cooperatives • All India Protest Day by Central Government Employees • Coal Workers Prepare For All India Movement • Sixteen Miners Killed In Topa Colliery • Gangsterism In DGMS Office • Open Attempt to Depress Minimum Wages • The Longest Textile Strike in India • United Steel Convention Calls for industrial Action • Around The States: West Bengal, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Tripura • Women’s Corner: Anti Dowry Movement by Women • Protest Against Female Foeticide • No Job for all Trained Apprentices • News In Brief • Focus on International Matters: CITU’s Message to SOHYO, CITU Denounces Fresh Israeli Attack on Lebanon

1 Aug 1982

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

In This Issue: • Rising Attacks and Growing Struggles – B. T. Ranadive • Karnataka CITU Conference • CITU Calls for United Struggles Against Capitalist Onslaughts • CITU Condemns Firing on Workers by Management Hirelings in Sirsa • Railway News • Call for Strengthening United Movement Against Anti-Labour Policy • Glorious Public Sector Strike On 11 March • CTUs Congratulate the Strikers in Public Undertakings • All India Convention on Drug Industry • Over One Lakh March on State Assembly in Bombay • Successful Strike of Seamen in Calcutta • J & K Govt Employees Conference • CITU Demands Govt. Intervention in TISCO Contract Workers’ Strike • All India Coal Workers Convention • MICO Factory • A Plea for Further Amendment of Section 2(s) of I.D. Act | Legal Notes -Arun Prokas Chatterjee • Police Raj in Rajhara • Contracts to Foreign Oil Companies: Against the Interests of the Country • Delhi TUs Call for General Strike on 14 April • Jute Workers to Launch Countrywide Campaign • Engineering Workers’ Convention Held • Leaders of Medical Workers Union from USSR Visit CITU Office

1 Apr 1981

In This Issue: • January 19 The Red Letter Day • Move to Split LIC : A Motive to Split the Workers • Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Central Rules, 46 • International Conference on Economic and Social Aspects of Disarmament • AUCCTU Greets CITU on Republic Day • Comrade Malor Jaipal Singh • Comrade Jyotirmoy Bosu • Successful All India Steel Workers Convention • Management Hirelings Unleash Reign of Terror in M.P. Collieries • Supreme Court Judgment on LIC Hits at Collective Bargaining • CTU’s Force ECL To Sign Agreement • Central Advisory Board Meeting On Limestone And Dolomite Labour Welfare Fund • Against Automation: A. I. Move By Newspaper Employees • West Bengal Newsletter: BCMU Conference Calls for Strike Action • All India Convention of HSCL Unions • On Rural Unorganised Labour

1 Feb 1982

In This Issue: • Port and Dock Workers Wage Issue Settled • Anti-Working Class Policies of the Damodar Valley Corporation • LIC Employees Win 15 p.c. Bonus • Kashmir Sheep and Wool Workers Organise • First All India Convention of ESIS Doctors • Denounce the Death Sentence of Kim Dae Jung • 35th Anniversary of The WFTU • Annual Conference of the Bengal Chatkal Mazdoor Union • Flag March by Mounted Police in BHEL Premises in Bhopal • Massive Demonstration by Workers and Employees in Patna • National Fertiliser Workers Win Demands • Port and Dock Workers’ Strike Deferred to November 28 • Working Committee of the M_P. State CITU Meets • Supreme Court Judgement on Gratuity : Monthly Wages Earned for 26 Working Days | Working Class and Trade Unions Must Note • West Bengal Newsletter • Delhi CITU Protests against Price Rise, Police Repression • Fertiliser Workers’ Strike on Dece. 16 • Railway News • CITU Condemns Murderous Attack on Workers in Assam • Increased Stipend to Apprentices Recommended • All India Steel Coordination Committee Meets • HSCL Unions Plan Solidarity Action for Kudremukh Workers • OBITUARY Comrade Dinesh Mazumdar, Comrade P.C. Joshi

1 Dec 1980

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

Ranadive, B. T., Chakraborty Nripen, Ranadive, Vimal +3

In This Issue: • May Day 1982 – B. T. Ranadive • Hungarian TU Delegation Visits CITU Office • May Day Manifesto of the CITU—1982 • Tamil Nadu State Committee Meets • Rally Against Imperialist War Danger – Nripen Chakraborty, Chief Minister, Govt. of Tripura • War and Women – Vimala Ranadive • Problems of Construction and Contract Labour – Nrisingha Chakrabarty • Land Reforms in West Bengal – Benoy Chowdhury, Minister-in-charge, Land and Land Reforms Deptt., Government of West Bengal • The Year of Productivity—An Attack on Werkers – M. K. Pandhe • National Compaign Committee Calls For All India Protest Day on June 4 • Successful Maharashtra Bundh Textile Strike Enters Fourth Month • Left Front Government And People: Achievements of Left-Front Govt in West Bengal (Small Scale and Cottage Industries) • P. K. Moitra Acquitted • West Bengal Assembly Demands Nationalisation Of Jute Industry • J.K. Jute Workers’ Strike Enters Third Month • Engineering Workers Move For Need Based Minimum Wage • Anti Working Class Industrial Disputes (Amendment) Bill Introduced in Lok Sabha • Reserve Bank Employees’ Strike • Govt’s Labour Policy Assailed • News Paper Employees’ Struggle Against Automation • CITU’s Memorandum on Sick Industrial Undertakings • Railway News: Rail Budget Criticised • National Convention Oppose LIC Split • Stop Delinking Calcutta-Haldia Ports • Kanpur Annapurna Biscuit Workers on Indefinite Strike • Kerala L.D.F.—Pledged to Serve the People • Hissar — Escalation of Attacks on CITU Activists • BHEL Production Policies Assailed • Successful Strike by Rajasthan Government Employees • Cement Workers to Fight Cement Barons—INTUC Conspiracy • AGB of BHEL Workers’ Union • Teleprinters Workers to Fight Productivity Linked Wage • Income Tax Employees Attacked by Anti-socials • Barbarous Lathi Charge on Workers at Ujjain • TUs Oppose DA Freeze by HSCL Management • CITU Supports Textile Workers’ Strike in Paraguay • Attack on CITU Union • Steel Workers to Fight Productivity Linked Wages • Attempts to Curtail ESI-Benefit • News In Brief

1 May 1982

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., Chakrabarty, Nrisingha

In This Issue: • Joint Communique by All Union Central Council of Trade Unions, Moscow, USSR and Centre of Indian Trade Unions, New Delhi, India • May Day Appeal of CITU • Convention of Public Sector Unions • 40th Anniversary of Anti-Fascist Victory – B. T. Ranadive • On The Occasion Of The 40th Anniversary Of The Victory Over Fascism: On the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union • World Peace Council: Declaration of the Presidential Committee • No to “Star Wars”! Appeal to the Peoples of the World • FSUI Condemns Malpractices by Authorities • State Govt. Employees to Observe National Demands Day • Social Security for Building and Construction Workers • BEFI General Council Meeting • National Campaign Committee Calls for Protest Movement Against Central Govt’s New Policies • Extravaganza by BHEL • Workers Fight Back Attempts of Closure • Conference of AIPEU • Women’s Struggle: Convention of Working Women • Conference of FMRAI • Asian Seminar On Rural Workers’ Problems • Conference of Steel Workers • Movement Against Budget • New Labour Policy or Old Wine in a New Bottle - Nrisingha Chakrabarty • Two Hours for Twenty Crores of Rural Unorganised Workers • Working Committee Meeting • Railwaymen’s Struggle: AIREC Streamlines Organisation • CITU Secretariat Decisions • Communal Harmony Week in Punjab • Strike in Bokaro Blast Furnace • CITU Supports Struggle of Polisario Front • Achievement of Higher DA by Public Sector Employees • CITU Denounces Joint US-Korea Manoeuvres Against DPRK • Seminar On Bhopal Gas Tragedy • International Struggles

1 May 1985

Ranadive, B. T., Chakrabarty, Nrisingha

In This Issue: • CITU General Council, Jaipur, Sept 28-30: Presidential Speech – B. T. Ranadive • Political Propaganda Defeated In A.P.: Victory of the Democratic Forces • CITU Condemns Violation of Safety Rules in Sounda Mines • State Govt. Employees’ Countrywide Strike • Movement by Central Government Employees • Successful Strike by Postal Employees • Working Journalists on the Path of Struggle • Stalemate in Tripartite DA Committee Continues • Hoax of New Grievance Settlement Authority Opposed • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Clarion Call for Unity of Railwaymen • Women’s Struggle: Reinstate the NTR Ministry • Women Court Arrest in Tamilnadu • CITU Congratulates the Workers for Their Struggle • HEC Workers’ Rebuff to Agreement with Scab Union • International Symposium on Environment and Industrial Safety • Govt. Withdraws Age-old Customary Bonus of State Bank Employees • Stop Bankers’ Move to Reduce Maternity Leave • Secretary General Metal TUI Visits CITU Office • Demand for Nationalisation of Bengal Potteries and National Tannery • Ranchi Women’s Solidarity with HEC Workers • Cochin Port workers Contribute to CITU Fighting Fund • Pharmaceutical Workers’ Struggle: Strike Preparation on Raptakos Issue • IDPL Workers on Struggle • Around The States: Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Bihar, Orissa, Kerala, Andaman & Nicobar, Assam • Peace Day Observed • Implement ILO Convention on Hours of Work – Nrisingha Chakraborty • Proposal of NCC: Modification of the Procedure for Verification • International Struggles

1 Oct 1984

In This Issue: • Steps Against Closures: Industrial Disputes (W. Bengal Amendment) BillI—1984 • Meeting of CITU Secretariat • Strike by LIC Employees • Conference of HSCL Workers’ Union • Highhandedness of Indian Airlines Management • Trade Unions Oppose Introduction of New Price Index Series • Note of CITU on the proscsed New Series of Consumer Price Index Numbers • Bank Employees’ Struggle • New Phase of the Struggle in J.K. Synthetics • State Government Employees Struggle • FDGB Delegates Visit CITU • Massive Peace March at Tripura • Tripartite Meeting on Workers’ Participation in Management • Observance of May Day • Around The States: Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Orissa, Punjab, Bihar • Seminar on Welfare Management • Conference of Fertilizer Workers’ Federation • CITU Condemns the Maharashtra Government for the Bhiwandi Riots • Women’s Struggle: Huge Rally at Calcutta • Government's Interference in National Safety Council • Teleprinter Workers’ Donation to CITU • Introduce Employer-Employee Relationship in Brick-Kilns • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Increased Efforts to Mobilise Railwaymen • International Struggles

1 Jun 1984

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