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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

Pandhe, M. K.

In This Issue: • Against anti-people Economic Policy and communalism: Rally Of Several Lakhs In The Capital. Countrywide General Strike On 11th May • Editorial: March On, To The Battle Ahead! • National Platform Of Mass Organisations: Declaration Of 9th March, 2000 Rally • 2.5 Lakh Jute Workers On Strike From 22nd March • Forward To General Strike On 11th May! – M. K. Pandhe • Com. Gita Mukherjee • ILO Director General Visits India • Com. N. Appa Rao • Atrocious Union Budget! • Steel Workers On Warpath • CITU Denounce Entry Of Foreign Lawyers, Condemns Assault On Legal Profession • Economy On Rails! Heading Where? • Volte Face — BJP Brand • Rail Budget: No Answer To The Crisis • 42 Days - Long Strike By J&K Employees • Construction Workers Hold Rally • Chandigarh: Dharna by U.T. Admn: Employees • 29th Conference of AIRBEA • FMRAI: Tamil Nadu State Conference • AP: United Struggle Forum • Postal Employees To Go For Indefinite Strike • Municipal Workers On Strike From 21st March • Meerut: TU Rights Trampled Upon • Struggle against Privatisation of Visakh Steel Plant • Clinton’s India Visit: Vajpayee Govt’s Surrender To Imperialist Machination • The Whole Country Protests Clinton’s Visit

1 Apr 2000

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K., Ganguly, P. K. +2

In This Issue: • Calls for All Round Mobilisation for 29th September Strike – P. K. Ganguly • Working Committee Meeting New Delhi, July 24-26,1994: Address By The President – E. Balanandan • State Convention of Mass Organisations at Bhubaneswar • Successful Strike of Public Sector Workers and Officers on July 14 – M. K. Pandhe • Fifth Conference Of Madhya Pradesh CITU • Workers of Unorganised Sector to Join 29th Sept. Strike • Workshop On Unorganised Sector Workers – P .K. Ganguly • Textile Workers Decide to March to Parliament • Contract Workers in Steel Industry to Strike on Sept. 12 in All Steel Centres - Manini Chatterjee • Approach To Fifth Central Pay Commission • Meeting Of Standing Labour Advisory Committee • Comrade Kim Il Sung • Struggle Against Privatisation Surges Ahead • CITU Celebrates 25th Anniversary • Com. Erich Honecker • Wagon Policy Of Indian Railways Designed To Doom Wagon Building Units - Dipankar Mukherji • Com S. K. Sanyal

1 Aug 1994

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

In This Issue: • Resist The New OFFENSIVE – B. T. Ranadive • Simpson Workers put DMK Government in the Dock • CITU calls upon Trade Unions to observe Anti-Repression Day • A recent case an Minimum Wages Act / Legal Notes • While taking over closed units Government hits workers • Growing militancy among workers in Andhra • Naval Dockyard workers win through united struggle • Ruthless repression continues on AVB workers • Rising tide of protest against dismissal and assaults in Kerala • Unitedly we must fight menace of US imperialism • Delhi workers struggle for Demands against Police Zoolum • CITU State Committees meet • AITUC & INTUC unions favoured by Management • CITU denounces US bombing on North Vietnam • Memorandum submitted to Sri A. L. Dias, Governor of West Bengal

1 Feb 1972

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • The National Council Of Trade Unions. WHAT IT MEANS TO THE WORKERS • The Menace Of Unemployment • May Day Rallies • Spectacular Victory Of Jute Workers • LIC Employees Prepare for Bigger Struggles • Legal Notes / Select Committee Report On Gratuity Bill • West Bengal, U. P. And Goa State Committees Meet • Recommendations Of The Banking Commission—A Critique • Newsletters /Tamilnadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, And Rajasthan • CITU denounces US Blockade Of Vietnam • Bengal Colliery Workers To Strike • Disruptive Tactics in AIDEF Foiled • Other Regular Features • Special 8-Page Supplement On Repression in West Bengal

1 Jun 1972

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • What Prevents United Action? Historic Strike and Hartal of August 27 • Will Waterfront Federation Leadership Give Up Inaction? • Calcutta High Court Decision Makes Industrial Disputes Act More Retrograde / Legal Notes • CITU’s Appeal to AITUC and HMS to Implement Decisions of Deihi Conference • Whither Bank Employees’ Movement • CITU Decisions of the Office Bearers’ Meeting • Bombay Textile Workers For General Strike • Birla Employees’ Struggle Against Closures • TISCO Workers Boycott Bonus • Lessons Of August 27 Bundh • First Conference Of West Bengal CITU • Police Repression On Railway Workers • Khadilkar’s New Bonus Recipe • Calcutta High Court Decision Makes I. D. Act More Retrograde • Spotlight On Coal Industry • And Other Features

1 Oct 1971

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

In This Issue: • Bangladesh Is Born. WHAT NEXT? – B. T. Ranadive • The 1971 Spring Struggle of Japanese Workers • P & T Employees struggle for Organisational Unity • CITU Memorandum on Unemployment • Earnings of Factory Workers in 1968 • CITU calls upon Working Class to denounce US Imperialist blackmail • On Pakistani Aggression and the Working Class • Govt.’s bid to impose Industrial Truce foiled • Another paltry Interim Relief by the Third Pay Commission • How a Section is repealed by Judicial Interpretation / Legal Notes • United struggle of Kerala toilers in the face of Repression • Anti-social Elements run amock in Raniganj Collieries • DIR used against Hindustan Teleprinters Workers • Murderous attack on T.U. Leaders by anti-socials

1 Jan 1972

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

In This Issue: • LET THE INDIAN WORKING CLASS Unitedly Defeat Rising Fascism In West Bengal – B. T. Ranadive • Fight back the Fascist Menace in West Bengal • Working class struggle in Turkey • Indian Women in search of employment – Vimal Ranadive • The Supreme Court's new definition of Industrial Dispute / Legal notes • The Railway Budget, the people and the Railway’ employees • Reign of terror in Durgapur • Consumer Price Index Numbers • P&T employees continue their struggle for Organisational unity • Historic Struggle by Coimbatore Textile Workers • The Cetral Budget—Robbery through high taxation and Deficit financing • Some samples of ‘Free and Fair’ Election in West Bengal • CITU M. P. Seeks to amend I. B. Act • Attempt to sabotage Simpsom Agreement failed • Kerala Newsletter • Other regular features

1 Apr 1972

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Fight The New Menace Of Automation • West Bengal State Council Of CITU Meets • Durgapur Still Dogged By Many Ills • The Courts And The Determination Of The Wages / Legal Notes • Condition Of Central Government Employees • Stop This Gross Insult To Indian Seamen • Minister’s Assurance No Help To CSTC Employees • CITU Day Observed • Persecution Of Govt. Employees In West Bengal • CITU Condemns Moratorium On Strikes In Bangladesh • AITUC Leadership As Strike Breakers in S. E. Rly. • Newsletters / Tamilnadu, Kerala, Assam • Oil And Chemicals (WFTU) Solidarity For Durgapur Workers • Massive Port Strike In U.K. • Other Regular Features

1 Jul 1972

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Against Closure And Rising Prices, For Higher Bonus and Gratuity, Observe A Day Unitedly During December 5—12 • The Government Employees and the People • Congress Government Unconcerned about Workers’ Problems • West Bengal Jute Workers Prepare for Another Struggle • Delhi Workers on the Path of Struggle • A Piece of Hypocrisy / Legal Notes • New Upswing of Struggle in Kerala • Former HMP Leader’s Treacherous agreement at East Nimcha Colliery • Decisions of CITU office bearers’ Meeting • Strike Struggles of Cotton Textile Workers for Higher Bonus • Tasks Facing the Cuban T. U. Movement • Other Features

1 Dec 1971

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P., Hoang Quac Viet

In This Issue: • United Action Alone Will Win Workers’ Demands • West Bengal’s Mighty Protest Victimisation of Government Employees • Indian Working Class and Bangladesh | B. T. Ranadive • Legal Notes • Onward March of Vietnamese Workers | Hoang Quac Viet • West Bengal ESI Enquiry Committee Findings • United Struggles of Tamilnadu Workers • Kerala Newsletter • West Bengal Cotton Textile Industry Pays Lowest wage • CITU Statements • NCDC Workers Fight Calious Attitude of Bureaucrats • United Struggle in Ranchi

1 Nov 1971

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

In This Issue: • Historic Strike and Hartal of August 27 • Let Everyone Help “The Working Class” To Discharge Its Reponsibilities – Message from B. T. Ranadive • Repression on AVB and Graphite Workers • Should Preference Be Given To Local Persons In All New Recruitments? – CITU Standpoint Explained • Repression on the Eve of West Bengal State CITU Conference • CITU Demands Need-Based Minimum Wage for The Central Government Employees • Labour Minister’s Evasive Replies • Supreme Court on customary and festival bonus / Legal Notes • CITU Greets The Japanese Workers • Labour Ministry Protects Contractors In Coal Mines • Railmen On the March • Facts For Agitators • West Bengal Engineering Workers on the Path of Struggle • AITUC and HMS Giving Up Concept of Secret Ballot? • CITU Wins IOC Co-operative Election • Recognise Bangladesh Here And Now • West Bengal Jute Workers Prepare for Another General Strike • And Other Features

1 Sept 1971

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

In This Issue: • Rally Behind The Central Government Employees • Greetings To Soviet Working Class & People • Greetings To Peoples China • Resist The Capitalist Offensive / B.T. Ranadive’s Call To The CITU Working Committee • Defeat The Line Of Disruption And Suppression—P. Ramamurti’s Report To Working Commitiee • CITU Demands Better Deal For Plantation Workers • Report Of The CITU Working Committee Meeting • Judicial Logic Vs. Facts Of Life / Legal Notes • Agreement With Loco Running Staff Being Sabotaged • Token Strike By Jute Workers On November 5 • Newsletters / Kerala, West Bengal, Tamilnadu • Other Regular Features

1 Nov 1973

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P., Roy, Biren +1

In This Issue: • Let the Rising Struggles Shatter the Foundations of Congress Regime! • Lessons of All India Jute Strike • Grenade Thrown At Durgapur Steel Union Leaders • The Struggle And Wage Settlement In LIC • Stop This Exploitation of Workers • British Courts And Trade Union Rights / Legal Notes • One Union In Railway Industry Or An Attempt To Stem The Rising Struggles • Doctors And Engineers On Struggle • Valiant Struggle By Coca-Cola Workers • Bombay Textile Workers’ Strike Betrayed • Forty Lakhs State Govt. Employees To Observe Token Strike On April 9 • Indefinite Strike By Textile Workers Continues / Tamilnadu • Other Regular Features • 8-Page Supplement On The Third National Congress Of The Vietnamese Trade Unions – B. T. Ranadive • Apartheid-Worst Form Of Racial Discrimination • British Miners On Strike

1 Mar 1974

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

In This Issue: • VOTE FOR LEFT & DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES • A new blue print for class Collaboration – B. T. Ranadive • Struggles of South Vietnam Workers • Tea plantation workers in West Bengal win Wage rise • A recent case on Industrial Disputes Act / Legal Notes • Indian Workers observe Anti-Repression Day • Jute Workers’ United Struggle • CITU expresses solidarity with British Miners • Massive Rally in Calcutta against Repression & Terror in West Bengal • Workers & Employees intensify struggles – Kerala • A new upsurge in militant united struggles – Tamilnadu • Bhilai Steel Construction Workers fight for job security • Rajesthan State Govt. Employees strike for Interim Relief • Bombay Workers condemn U.S. Role

1 Mar 1972

Ranadive, Vimal, Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Fight The Skyrocketing Of Prices • Twentyfifth Anniversary Of Indian Independence • Mockery Of Maternity Benefits In India —Vimal Ranadive • CITU Note To The Bonus Review Committee • Newsletters/Tamilnadu And Kerala • Semi-Fascist Terror In Durgapur Condemned • Samyukta Trade Union Council Of Maharashtra Formed • Stop Attacks On Workers And Trade Unions / CITU’s Telegram To President • Reports From Unions • More On Wages / Legal Notes • Plug The Loopholes Of The Mines Act • Report On Railwaymen’s Struggles • Working Class Struggle In Spain • Other Regular Features

1 Aug 1972

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

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., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Fight The Wage Freeze – B. T. Ranadive • Comrade Harekrishna Konar • Unite All Workers! Develop Fraternal Relations with the People! (Extracts From B. T. Randive's Speech Given At The A.L.R.T.W. Convention) • Against Victimisation of Railwaymen And Wage Freeze Ordinance : United Movement of Entire Working Class Planned • Railwaymen : United Struggle to Continue Under The Banner of NCCRS • CITU’s Activities In Defence of Railway Employees • A New Orientation? / Legal Notes • CITU State Committees Meet / Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, West Bengal • Newsletters / Kerala, West Bengal • West Bengal Jute Workers Observed Demands Day • Convention of Chemicals And Pharmaceutical Unions • Other Regular Features

1 Aug 1974

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

In This Issue: • A Great And Victorious Strike By B. T. Ranadive • Victory For Locomen • Central and State Govt. Employees’ United Move • Another Successful Bundh / Kerala • Bombay Textile Workers Convention • Resident Doctors on Strike In Bombay • Need based Minimum Wage For Powermen Demanded • Seminar On Productivity and T.U. Movement • CITU’S Suggestions To Planning Commission • University Employees’ Conference • Supreme Court Creates Army Of Non-Workers / Legal Notes • Newsletters) West Bengal, Andhra, Tamilnadu • Other Regular Features

1 Sept 1973