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Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Fight Out The Victimisation Of Railwaymen With All Our Might • The Glorious Railway Strike And After, Repression Continues Even After Withdrawal • The AITUC Leadership And The Railway Strike • Amendments To The Constitution Of The CITU • Who Scuttled Central T.U.’s Solidarity With Railwaymen? • Who Are Patronising Gangsters In Durgapur? CITU Union’s Open Letter To Steel Minister • West Bengal Forest Workers Realise Demands Through Struggle • Closure Of Plantations Lead To Large Scale Unemployment • Law For Victimised Railway Employees / Legal Notes • Deihi ‘Statesman’ Workers Face Management & Goonda Attacks • Newsletters / Kerala, Tamilnadu, Goa, Maharashtra • CITU Demands Recognition of PRG of South Vietnam • Rising Working Class Struggles In Great Britain • Karnataka Textile Workers Get Wage Rise • Big Strike by M. P. State Transport Workers • Other Regular Features

1 Jul 1974

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

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

In This Issue: • Let All T.U.’s Unitedly Fight Attack On IA Employees – B. T. Ranadive • All India Jute Workers Rise Against Jute Magnates • Two Lakhs Textile Workers Of Bombay On General Strike • Trigger Happy Police On Rampage In Gujarat • Women Workers Organise In Maharashtra • Rising Struggles of Plantation Workers • State CITU Conferences & Conventions • All India Steel Workers’ Convention Finalises Charter Of Demands • Was Postponement Of PF Strike Correct? • LIC Employees? Successful Struggle • The Partial Lock-outs / Legal Notes • Maharashtra Bundh – Total / Maharashtra Newsletter • Successful Bundh for Food & Against High Prices / Bihar • Other Regular Features

1 Feb 1974

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

In This Issue: • All Support To Loco Workers – B. T. Ranadive • Magnificent Response To November 17 Bundh • Upsurge Of Militant Struggles By South African Workers • Interim Wage Rise For Five Lakh Coal Workers • Bonus Movement By Bhilai Workers—A Review • Delhi Bundh—A Great Success • Central Government Employees & Workers On To Countrywide: United Mass Actions • Locomen Plan Bigger United Struggle • Lawful Cheating / Legal Notes • Delhi Statesman Workers Struggle • Jute Workers Again Prepare For Industry-wide Strike • Other Regular Features

1 Dec 1973

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

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

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

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

Ranadive, B. T.

In This Issue: • Results of Elections — B. T. Ranadive • Annual Conference of Kilburn Workers’ Union • Insurance Employees’ Convention • Trade Unions and Wage Negotiations in Public Sector • Efforts for United Struggle of Central Government Employees • RBI Employees Continue Struggle • Cement Workers Preparing for Countrywide Movement • CITU Demands Probe into Death of Working Woman • Solidarity with Textile Workers • Railway News: Supreme Court Orders Relief To Victimised Locomen • May Day Celebrations • Diabolical Plan to Scuttle Trade Union Rights • Struggles Around the States: Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, Rajasthan • International Struggles Against Repression and for Peace

1 Jun 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

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

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: • The Great Bharat Bandh • Call Of CITU Working Committee: Dethrone the Rajiv Government from Power • Contributions Announced for the Tripura Fund • Resolution on Bharat Bandh • Unorganised Workers to Prepare for Countrywide Strike Action • Massive Rally by Women - Vimal Ranadive • Textile Workers on Path of Struggle - P. K. Ganguly • CITU Congratulates Workers • State Govt. Employees to Strike on November 22 • Successful Strike by Defence Employees • Address to the Tamilnadu State Conferencé of CITU – B. T. Ranadive, President, CITU • Meeting of DA Committee

1 Oct 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

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