The Working Class

In This Issue: • Successful Nationwide 48 Hour Strike of Coal Miners • Second Conference of AICWF • Struggle Against BPE’s New Directive • All Trade Union Demand for Nationalisation of Bengal Potteries, National Tanneries and India Rubber Mfg. Ltd. • CITU’s Reply to the Fourth Pay Commission Questionnaire • Brick-Kiln Owners Want Exemption from Labour Laws • CITU Denounces the Dissolution of Sikkim Assembly • Second Confereuce of All India Road Transport Workers Federation • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Interim Report and Relief Demanded • Around The States: Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Bihar, Haryana, Delhi • The Holocaust of Bhiwandi • Development in Punjab – Harkishan Singh Surjeet • CITU Disapproves NSA Amendments • Glorious Movement in Raptakos Brett • CITU General Council Meeting • Meeting of Jute Workers’ Federation • CITU Condemns Suppression of Trade Union Activities in Ghaziabad and Modinagar • Women’s Struggle: Conference of Khagaria District AIDWA • State Government Employees to Strike • Meeting of Water Transport Workers’ Federation • Parliament Question on Closures: Labour Minister’s Reply Reveals Management Deficiencies • CITU Delegation to China • Secretariat Decisions • Observance of May Day Abroad • CITU Condemns Thatcher Government