Jute

Ranadive, B. T., Sen, Sukomal

In This Issue: • May Day 1984 – B. T. Ranadive • Slogans of CITU for the May Day—1984 • Road Transport Worker’s Conference to be held in Madras • Workers’ March to Parliament • Victory of the Jute Workers • Victory of Port and Dock Workers • Coal Workers to Strike Again • Steel Workers Convention • Demands Day Central Government Employees • Bank Employees Struggle • Annual Meeting of Reserve Bank Employees Association • Around The States: Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Bihar, Orissa, Tripura, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Haryana • Convention of Opposition Parties • Peace Day Observed • Conference of AICAPEF • CITU Demands More Power To States • Seminar on National Transport Policy • Memorandum by Plantation Workers’ Federation • HSCL Joint Forum at Breaking Point • Seamen Hold Protest Demonstrations • Strike by Medical Representatives • CiTU Demands Implementation of Labour Laws by Brick-Kiln Owners • CITU Secretariat Meeting • Monopoly Houses Thrive at the Cost of People • Of Membership Of Trade Unions: The Present Procedure for Verification • M.Ps. Demand Recognition of Sahrawi Democratic Republic • Railwaymen’s Struggle: 48-Hour Strike in Chittaranjan Locomotive Works • Railway Budget Evades Responsibility for Poor Performance • Warm Reception to Chinese T.U. Delegation • Tripartite Committee On D.A.: Delay in Convening Meeting • Demand of Bonus and Interim Relief by the State Government Employees: The background and perspective – Sukomal Sen, General Secretary, All India State Govt. Employees Federation • CITU & AITUC Protest Against Verification Process • State Government Employees to Strike • Library and Reading Room for Steel Workers • Women’s Struggle: Third Convention of Working Women • Seminar on Workers’ Participation in NTC • Comments on the Delhi Recognition of Trade Unions Bill, 1983 • Comrade Santosh Mitra • Comrade Golak Pati Roy • On the Government’s Scheme for Employees’ Participation in Management • International Struggles

1 May 1984

In This Issue: • Strike in Public Sector on 11 March. Countrywide Demonstrations on 3 March • CITU Condemns LIC Ordinance • CITU Opposes Increase In Rail Tariff • Locomen’s Struggle Withdrawn, But Fighting Spirit Not Quelled • Continuous Strike in Hindustan Cables • Pfizer Workers Force Multinational Company for Settlement • Plight of Woman Construction Workers • Slate Pencil Industry in Mandasaur. For Survival Workers Forced to Choose Work Which Kills • Railway Budget : To Subsidise a Corrupt, Inefficient and Anti-Working Class Bureuacracy • West Bengal Newsletter • For the First Time Pay Scales Recommended for Jute Workers • Indian Seamen Win Their Just Demands • News in Brief • Growing Influence of Lal Jhanda Union in Delhi • Assam CITU Meets • AINEF to Fight Back Wage Freeze Policy

1 Mar 1981

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

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

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

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

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

In This Issue: • CITU Calls for Radical Improvement in P.F. Scheme • Total Strike Against Karnataka Bill • Modinagar Strike: Central Govt. Urged to Intervene • CITU Greets Assam Working Class • CITU Office Ransacked in Gauhati • Working Women Committee Call for Joint Action • West Bengal Newsletter • Water Transport Workers to Prepare for Movement • Reign of Terror in Border Road Organisation : CITU Complains to ILO • Fire in Sitaldasji Colliery : Life, Property in Peril • HSCL : Stalemate in Negotiations • Bonus Ordinance Below Expectations • Third Tamilnadu CITU Conference in September • Comrade Suhrid Mullick Chowdhury • Forward to General Council Meeting at Cannanore • Successful Kerala Bandh • Settle Demands of Bihar Powermen • Tripura Tea Workers Become Owners of Gardens • Railway News: Ministerial Staff Demonstrate before Parliament • CITU Opposes Modification in Palekar Recommendations • Jute Workers To Form All India Federation • CISF Jawans Get Restive • Seamen’ Struggle • Massive TU Demonstration in Bombay • Other Reports

1 Sept 1980

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

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

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

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

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: • 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: • Working Committee Meeting Of CITU, Kalyani, September 4-6, 1989: Presidential Address - B. T. Ranadive • Sugar Workers Decide for Indefinite Strike • Massive Preparations for Bharat Bandh • Central Trade Unions Call for Industrial Strike and to Join Bharat Bandh on August 30, 1989 • On Minimum Wage: UP Decides for Three-Day Strike • Bihar to Hold State Convention • Conventon in Bombay • Secretariat Decisions • Massive Jail Bharo Movement at Kanpur • Conference of Steel Plant Contract Labour Union • 26th Conference of Kerala NGO Union • Closure of Rajgarh Jute Mills • Conference of Mercantile Employees’ Confederation • HSCL Workers on Path of Agitation • Demands Day Observed by Aganwadi Women • Punjab Peasants Launch Struggle Demanding Flood Relief • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Chittaranjan Workers Stage Dharna at Boat Club • Powerloom Convention held at Sholapur • CITU Union Wins Verification Case in Bhaskar Textiles, Orissa • Protest Rally at Bhubaneshwar against Anti-Socials • CITU Delegation’s Visit to China

1 Sept 1989

Ranadive, B. T.

In This Issue: • Forward to Preparation for One Day strike in All Industries — B. T. Ranadive • National Convention Call For All India One Day Strike. A Memorable Event in United TU Movement • Bihar Glass and Potteries Workers Conference • Speedcraft Workers Attacked • Working Women’s Conference at Kolhapur • Assam CITU Gears Up its Activities • Violation of Freedom of Association and Right to Collective Bargaining in India • Jute Workers Observe Countrywide Demands Day • CITU Condemns Railway Ministry for accidents • Kanpur Hosiery Workers on Indefinite Strike • In Brief • Conference of Chabagan Mazdoor Union • Forward to the Xth World Trade Union Congress at Havana, 1982. Downward Trend of Industrial Accidents in GDR • Railway News: Inhuman Duty Hours for Locomen • May Day Celebrated Throughout India • Attack on Plantation Workers in Tamilnadu • Tamilnadu Tannery Workers Conference • Police Repression Continues in Haryana • Successful One Day Strike on May 20

1 Jul 1981

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: • 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

Pandhe, M. K., Ganguly, P. K.

In This Issue: • National Seminar On Workers’ Participation In Management: Secret Ballot Accepted as Mode of Representation – M. K. Pandhe • Amir Hyder Khan • CITU & NCC Delegations Meet Labour Minister – P. K. Ganguly • CiTU Condemns Lockout by Indian Express • Memorandum of Understanding Signed in IDPL • CITU’s Memorandum to Industry Minister on IDPL • CITU Secretariat Calls for Protest Actions against IDPL Management • Other Decisions of the Secretariat • Struggle of Tripura Jute Mill Workers • CITU Delegation Meets Steel Minister • Delegation of Water Transport Workers’ Federation Meets Transport Minister • Enhancement of Provident Fund Contribution to 10% • Meeting of AICWF • Struggle of Anganwadi Women • Death Anniversary of Com. Safdar • Lock out in Chowgules Workshop and Ship-Building Yard Withdrawn • CITU Demands Review of Foreign Vessels Chartering for Deep Sea Fishing • Implementation of Revival Package of ACC-Babcock Demanded • Conference of A.I. Postal Employees • NBCC Delegation Meets Minister • Convention of NHPC Workers • Com. Chacha Shadiram • Donation to CITU by Balmer Lawrie Employees’ Union • Federations’ Delegation Meets Prime Minister on Right to Work • CITU Opposes Government’s Acceptance of Wage Board Recommendations on Sugar Industry • Railwaymen’s News: Railway Trade Unions in the new phase • South Africa: Declaration of the Conference for a Democratic Future • Greetings from AUCCTU on Republic Day • US Binary Modernization • Appeal by National Democratic Front of South Korea

1 Feb 1990

Balanandan, E., Ganguly, P. K., Majumdar, Chittabrata

In This Issue: • General Council Meeting, Nagpur, March 13-15, 1992: Presidential Address - E. Balanandan • Against Economic Policies Government: Calcutta Convention Calls for Countrywide Strike • General Council Meeting of CITU, Nagpur, March 13-15, 1992: Call for Preparation of Countrywide Strike against the Economic Policy of the Government - P. K. Ganguly • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Co-ordinated Joint Broad Based Action is the need of the hour—AIRF • CITU Calls Upon Trade Unions to Protest against the Budget 1992-93 • Glorious Victory for Jute Workers of West Bengal • Trade Unions Condemn the Central Govt’s Move to Reintroduce ESMA and MISA • Oppose this Anti-People and Anti-Labour Railway Budget • CITU Congratulates Jute Workers for Successful Struggle • General Council Meeting, Nagpur, March 13-15, 1992: Resolutions • Nicaragua 1992 • Working Class in Building Socialism in China - Chittabrata Majumdar

1 Apr 1992