Mining

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

In This Issue: • New Dangers! – B. T. Ranadive • Before discharging workmen enquiry is a mus. An Important Decision on Industrial Law | Legal Notes • LIC employees’ historic victory in Supreme Court • Government betrays port and dock workers. All India indefinite strike from Jan. 5 • CITU demands acceptance of public sector employees’ demands • Long March of Maharashtra peasants braves police repression • 5th Conference of Punjab CITU • Rise of agricultural workers membership of AIKS • Crisis of capitalism and the Working Class • Andaman and Nicobar workers prepare for struggle • All India Coal Workers Convention at Raniganj • Fifth Conference on Safety in Mines • Railway News: Railwaymen intensify struggle • Comrade Alexei Kosygin • Over half world’s working women are in Asia but they have a long road to equality • Fraternal TU leaders visit CITU office • News in Brief • Bihar bandh : Massive response • Indian seamen demand end of discriminatory wages

1 Jan 1981

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

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, 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

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

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

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: • 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

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

In This Issue: • On the Foundation Day of the CITU, 1931 — B. T. Ranadive • Foundation Day of the CITU was celebrated at the CITU Central Office in New Delh • A Plea For Immediate Legislative Amendment | Legal Notes - Arun Prokas Chatterjee • Babcock and Wilcox Workers on Continuous Strike • Government of India’s Callousness Towards the ILO Conventions • Retrograde Recommendations of Ramanujam Committee • May Day Celebrations in Moscow — Nrisingha Chakrabarty • Second Conference of Sonepat District CITU • International Health Hazard Alert on 2 Nitro Propane. Concerned Unions Must Note • Comrade Soong Ching Ling • Comrade Bal Dandavate • Kolar Goldfields • Tripartite Meeting in Drug Industry

1 Jun 1981

Ranadive, B. T., Umanath, R., Ganguly, P. K. +1

In This Issue: • The Ninth General Elections – B. T. Ranadive • List of Left Candidates Who Won the Ninth Lok Sabha Elections, 1989 • CITU Condemns Harassment of Woman Typist by HSCL Management • Higher Workload in the Name of Work Culture in Vizag Steel Piant • Tamilnadu State Conference of Working Women – R. Umanath • Victory of SWAPO • Railwaymen’s News • The Raniganj Colliery Accident—Facts & Facets – P. K. Ganguly • Address to the Federation of All India Transport Workers – B. T. Ranadive • Com. La Passionaria • Second International Miners Congress – M. K. Pandhe • United Strike of Airlines Engineers • CITU Welcomes COSATU Delegation • International Literacy Year (1990) • Penetration of Transnational Corporations into Indian Economy • Who is Investing in India? • Stop All Aparthied Executions • America’s Health Care Crisis • Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

1 Dec 1989

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K., Dev Roye, Swadesh

In This Issue: • The Elections and After – E. Balanandan • Com. P.K. Kunjachan • Struggle Against Increase in Working Hours In Sail Offices • Meeting of CITU Secretariat • Left Gains in Working Class Areas in W. Bengal • Firing At Dalla Cement Factory: Workers Martyred to Save Public Sector – P. K. Ganguly • CITU Condemns Killing of Dalla Cement Workers • Public Sector Workers to Observe All India Solidarity Day For Dalla Cement Workers on 2nd July, 1991 • CITU Supports Indefinite Strike in Sonebhadra Districts Against Dalla Firing from June 24 • Towards United Movement of Cement Workers • Harassment to Airhostess Leads to Safety Danger • Contract System Plunders Bokaro Workers • Com. Sukhdev Singh • Com. Varinder Kumar Gagan • J. K. Bose • Com. K. George • Meeting Pays Homage to S. A. Dange • List of CITU Special Fund Receipts • May Day in Punjab—Workers Demonstrate against Governor • CITU Publications • Bangladesh Relief Fund Receipts • Caretaker Govt. has no Right to Constitute Women’s Commission • Victorious Left Candidates in 10th Lok Sabha • CITU Holds CIL Management Responsible for Singrauli Mine Accident • Pension As A Third Retirement Benefit – M. K. Pandhe • Defeat the Move to Privatise Vayudoot – S. Dev Roye • First Bihar State Conference of Anganwadi Women • Dandeli Paper Mills: CITU Wins Secret Ballot • CITU Foundation Day Observed • Prime Minister Advocates Appeasement to World Bank and the IMF • CITU Supports Struggle of Korean People for Unification • Complaint to ILO by the Confederation of Public Sector Officers’ Associations

1 Jul 1991

Pandhe, M. K., Das, P. K., Choudhary, Saroj +1

In This Issue: • Forward To Countrywide Preparation for Historic Bharat Bandh on September 9 – M. K. Pandhe • CITU President Opposes Privatisation of IISCO in Parliament • Trade-Unions decides to Launch Strike Jointly to Oppose Privatisation of IISCO • ACFTU Delegation Visits India • Loot of Public Wealth —Fact Behind IISCO Privatisation • International Congress of Miners – M. K. Pandhe • Foil Game to Legalise Arbitrary Closure of Factories. Mobilise in Thousands against the Anti-Workers Move to Change Labour Laws - Jibon Roy • Tamilnadu State Conference Of CITU Pledges To Intensify Fight Against Twin Danger of New Economic Policy and Communalism • 9th Punjab State Conference of CITU • Karnataka State Beedi Workers’ Conference • 13th World Congress on Occupational Safety & Health Exposed Problems of Developing Countries – P. K. Das • A Glimpse Of Public Sector Performance - Saroj Chaudhury • Struggle of Working Women: Tamilnadu Politics and Arbitrary Attitude of Ministers • Railwaymen’s Struggle: AIRF Strike Ballot by July end for Indefinite General Strike in September 1993 • Jute Workers of West Bengal are on the path of Struggle • CITU/CTUC Workshop On Trade Union Education • CITU Calls for United Trade Union Action against Conditionalities On Wage Negotiations Imposed by the Govt. • One Lakh Workers March in Bombay Against Economic Policies & Communalism - Ashok Dhawale • CITU Opposes DA And Wage Freeze • Working Class Struggle all over the World • Oliver Tambo Passed Away

1 Jun 1993

Varada Rajan, W. R., Dev Roye, Swadesh

In This Issue: • Red Salute To Comrade Benoy Chowdhury • Editorial: Stop Not Till The Disastrous Policies Are Reversed • Massive Countrywide Strike On May 11th • NPMO Congratulates People • General Council Meeting at Kozhikode: CITU Charters Further Campaign • Intensive Campaign Programme • Pension Case In Supreme Court • Indian Labour Conference: A Sterile Debating Exercise On Labour Issues – W. R. Varada Rajan • CITU's Criticism Of Govt. Inaction • CITU Comments On Industrial Sickness • Industrial Sickness: The BIFR Views • Labour Issues In Parliament: Bharat Gold Mines: Govt. Ultimatum On VRS • “Unambiguous Policy” To Throw Away PSU Shares? • Minimum Age For Employment • On Sale Of PSU Assets • The Lot Of Pensioners/ Retirees • Sell-Out Of SAIL! • On Draft Electricity Bill, 2000: Shift To Anti-People Power Policy - Swadesh Dev Roye • Electricity Federation Conference • Voltas Employees Organise Conventions • May Day Celebrated In Tamilnadu • NPMO Rally In Port Blair • IDPL Workers Demonstrate • CITU Appeal For Drought Releif • Coal Workers Score A Major Win • Trike By Newspaper Employees • Passing Of Major Ports Bill Denounced • Affiliation Fees : Attention State Committees • Anganwadi Workers March To Parliament • CITU Greetings To DYFI 6th Conference

1 Jun 2000

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

Ranadive, B. T., Mukherjee, Samar

In This Issue: • Seventh November Greetings – B. T. Ranadive • Call of CITU General Council Meeting: Fight Authoritarianism; Consolidate Working Class Unity; Expose Imperialist Conspiracies; Save Democracy; Defeat Divisive Forces; Struggle for Peace • General Council Meeting, Jaipur, September 28-30, 1984: Report of the General Secretary (Abridged Form) – Samar Mukherjee • Com. Bhaskara Rao • General Council Meeting, Jaipur, September 28-30, 1984 – Resolutions: On Martyrs; Homage to Com. Yuri Andropov; Com. D.D. Vashist; On Condolences; On Danger of War and Struggle for Peace; On Struggle of the Working Class in Advanced Capitalist Countries; On Repression of Political Workers in Iran; On Divisive Forces and National Integration; On Punjab; On the Seventh Five Year Plan; On Struggle Against Authoritarianism; On Movement Against Lockouts and Closures; On Price Rise; On: Repression; On United Action of the Working Class; On Struggles of Peasants and Agricultural Workers; On Nationalisation of Jute Industry; On Nationalisation of Textile Industry; On Workers Participation in Management; On the Struggle of the Central Govt. Employees; On Support to Railway Workers Struggle; On Struggle of Working Women; On the Struggle of the State Govt. Employees; On Solidarity with Coal Mine Workers; On the Struggle of the Workers in J. K. Group of Industries; On HEC Workers Strike; On the Successful Strike of P&T Employees; On Maharashtra Powerloom Workers’ Struggle; On ILO Convention Concerning Hours of Work (Industry); On Demands of Indian Seamen; On Struggle of Kerala Traditional Industries Workers; On Struggle of Project Workers in| Punjab and Haryana; On Production Cut in Tyre Industry; On Struggle of Modistone Employees; On Closure of ILTD Branches; On Struggle of Bharat Gold Mine Workers • Airlines Employees on Struggle • On Agricultural Workers: Government Refuses Central Legislation • Railwaymen’s Struggle: 48 Hours Hunger Strike by the LRSA Leaders • Samar Mukerjee’s Letter to Indira Gandhi • CITU Denounces Repression on Loco Running Staff • Excerpts from AILRSA Memorandum • CITU Denounces Banning of Recruitment in Central Government Services • Women’s Struggle: Conference of Andhra Pradesh AIDWA • JBCCI Meeting: CIL’s Subterfuges Rejected • Ban on Strike in Coalmines Condemned • Secretariat Meeting • Canara Bank Staff Union Conference • Seminar On ILO Convention: Government's Attempt to Sabotage International Standards • Tripartite Committee Meeting: Workers’ Participation in Management • Central Government Evading Wage Parity • Around The States: Maharshtra, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal • International Struggles

1 Nov 1984

Ranadive, B. T.

In This Issue: • Not To Be Forgotten: June 22, 1941 • Central Trade Unions Observe Anti-Apartheid Day • Central Trade Union Delegation Visits Punjab • West Bengal State CITU Conference • T.U.s Observe Save Public Sector Day • Meeting of Advisory Council of Industry • Stop Privatisation of Public Sector • CITU Denounces Repression on Kerala Teachers • CITU Greets the Working Class and People of West Bengal • Stop Massacre of Labour Laws and the Workers in Haryana • CITU Supports the Struggle of Journalists • CITU Denounces South-African Attack on Angola • Secretariat Decisions • Railwaymen's Struggle: Successful End of LRSA Hunger Strike • United Strike of Delhi Textile Workers • Unemployment and the Working Class – B. T. Ranadive • Capitalism Generates Unemloyment! • Resolutions of the General Council: On Nationalisation of Peerless Co.; On the Situation in Bharat Gold Mines; On Accident in Godavari Khani; On Struggle of Titagarh Paper Mill Workers; On Struggle of U P. Cement Workers; On the Proposed Strike by Defence Employees • BHEL Voluntary Retirement Scheme Kept in Abeyance • CITU Denounces Government's Plan to Close Down Textile Mills • Port & Dock Strike Withheld • May Day Celebrations Abroad

1 Jul 1986

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

Ganguly, P. K., Bhattacharjee, Shanti, Roy, Jibon

In This Issue: • From Jail Bharo To Bharat Bandh And Industrial Strike On September 9 – P. K. Ganguly • Massive Countrywide Court Arrest • Trade Unions unitedly oppose IISCO Privatisation. Protest strike in Steel Industry on 7th September 1993 • CITU Condemns Killing Of CPI(M) Leader In Bihar • All India Coal Workers’ Federation meet on 30th July. Coal Miners Prepare For Bharat Bandh On 9th September • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Railwaymen’s Convention/Conferences upheld Bharat Bandh on 9th September 1993 • Kisan Sabha Condemns Brutal Murders • Com Bhag Singh Sajjan • Com. T. N. Siddhanta • Citu Mourns Utpal Dutta’s Passing Away • Com. S. K. Bishoyee • Citu Condemns Vandalism By Rss-Bjp-Vhp • Com Achintya Bhattacharya • Sugar Workers Start Mobilisation • Bank And Financial Institutions Decide For Indefinite Strike • Convention Of The L.I.C. Working Women Visakhapatnam Division • Anganwadi Workers to Join Bharat Bandh • CITU Welcomes Supreme Court Order for Reinstatement of Dismissed/Removed Railwaymen • Working Committee Meeting Of E.E.F.I • Power Workers’ Federations Extend Support to DESU Workers in their Struggle Against Privatisation • Technology Upgradation and New Economic Policy - Jibon Roy (Speech read in seminar organised by national productivity council held on 22 & 23rd April 1993 at New Delhi) • Privatisation of Nationalised Insurance Industry Why and In Whose Interest! - Shanti Bhattacharjee • Miners In Continuous Hunger Strike in East Germany to Resist Closure

1 Sept 1993