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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: • New Menace Of Higher Taxation And Railway Fare • Forward To New Militant Struggles / Ranadive Addresses CITU General Council • Central Government Employees Prepare For Countrywide United Mass-Action • Railwaymen: National Convention Serves Ultimatum On Govt. • Deadlock In Electricity Wage Negotiations : All India Strike Planned • State Government Employees Prepare For Strike Of April 9 • Jute Tripartite And After • Legislators Propose But … / Legal Notes • Ceat Tyre Workers In Bombay On Indefinite Strike • Joint Trade Unions Council Formed In The Andamans • Goa / Coca Cola Workers Continue Struggle • Newsletters: Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu • West Bengal: CITU Supports Striking Doctors & Engineers • Other Regular Features

1 Apr 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

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., 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: • 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: • Against Crisis Burdens Against One Party Dictatorship | B. T. Ranadive • May Day Manifesto Of The CITU, 1975 • Com. S. Y, Kolhatkar Attacked By Siva Sena Goondas • Government, Jute Barons Trying To Shift Burden Of Crisis On Workers • National Campaign Committee Decides To Intensify Anti-Wage Freeze Campaign • Anti-Emergency Day Observed Throughout India • L.R.S. A. Demands Reactivise NCCRS | Railwaymen • Anti-Wage Freeze Demonstrations & Conventions Held • Representation Of Parties Under Section 36 Of The Industrial Disputes Act | Legal Notes • Tisco Karmachari Union Joins The CITU • Hesalong Colliery 1 Worker Killed, 56 Injured By AITUC Goondas • CITU Hails The Liberation Of Cambodia • Newsletters | Kerala, Goa, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal • Other Regular Features

1 May 1975

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 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

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

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: • 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

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

Basu, Jyoti, Ramamurti, P.

MINUTES 1. Minutes of the meeting 2. Opening Speech by Com. Jyoti Basu (Vice President) 3. Resolutions adopted in the meeting a) On Com. Bhairav Bharatiya b) Condolence resolution on Com. Shamsul Huda c) On Repression on Railway Workers d) On Arrests and victimisation of Central & State Govt. Employees e) On Execution of Spanish revolutionaries f) On Emergency and the Working class g) On the struggle of the IDPL employees, Hyderabad h) On Equal pay for equal work i) On Bonus Ordinance j) On Bonded Labour k) On India U.S.A. Joint Commission l) On Retrenchment, Lay-off and Closures m) On Govt's scheme of "Participative Management" 4. Report by Com. P. Ramamurti, General Secretary 5. Information Documents: (a) Report from Hooghly District, W.B. (b) Text on Ordinance on Equal Pay for women (c) Workers participation in management Scheme prepared by Union Labour Ministry (d) "Guidelines" for Seven-day working (e) A note on bonus struggle of the IDPL employees Hyderabad (f) Twelve point programme drawn by Ministry of energy (g) Ashort report on West Bengal by Com. Manoranjan Roy (h) Position of bonus (1975) in W. B. (i) Report of Western Madhya Pradesh by Com. Md. Ismail, M.P. Vice-President (j) Report of the activities of Koila Shramik Sangh, Bishrampur (k) Struggle of J. K. Jute Mill Workers for bonus (l) Report on Rajasthan Trade Union (m) Memorandum to State Labour Minister West Bengal by Jute workers (n) Memorandum to State Labour Minister West Bengal by Federation of Metal and Engineering Workers Unions

1 Nov 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: • The Rail Budget And The Railwaymen • For Unity And Struggle. Water Transport Workers’ Federation Formed • Heroic Jute Strike—A Balance Sheet • Power Workers Plan All India Movement • Forge Ahead For Struggles Call Given By All India Conference of Beedi & Cigar Workers • Third Conference of Rajasthan CITU • First Conference of Orissa CITU • Second ‘Conference Of Assam State CITU • The Right To Strike | Legal Notes • Railwaymen Force the Authorities To Negotiate • 8th General Conference of AIIEA Calls For Unity And United Struggles • Conference of Hindusthan Steel Employees Union, Durgapur • Conventions & Protest Actions Against Wage Freeze • Newsletters: Kerala, Tamil Nadu • W. Bengal T.U. Convention Calls For State-Wide Movement And General Strike • Other Regular Features

1 Mar 1975

Ramamurti, P., Chatterjee, A. P.

इस अंक में: • सीटू के चतुर्थ सम्मलेन के लिए • पश्चिम बंगाल के इंजीनियरी कर्मचारियों के लिए नया समझौता • 'भेल' कर्मचारियों का छः फरवरी को विरोध दिवस • मजदूर वर्ग की एकता निहायत जरूरी - पी राममूर्ति • बिहार सीटू की बैठक • सिम्पलेक्स मजदूरों का संघर्ष: दिल्ली पुलिस की लज्जाजनक भूमिका • महिला कर्मचारी सम्मलेन के लिए सीटू की तैयारी • कोयला खदान मजदूरों की 5 फरवरी को हड़ताल • ट्रेड यूनियन कार्यकर्ताओं पर दमन • एच इस सी एल के मजदूरों का शानदार संघर्ष • दवा कर्मचारियों के संघर्षरत कदम • व्यवसाय भी कैंसर का कारण हो सकता है • आंध्र में महिला कर्मचारी सम्मलेन • श्रम कानून-2 : गलत दलीलों के नाम पर नौकरी की बहाली को नहीं रोका जा सकता - इलाहबाद उच्च न्यायलय का फैसला - अरुण प्रकाश चटर्जी • राज्य कर्मचारी हड़ताल करेंगे • नागदा में जनतंत्र की हत्या • दिल्ली के इंजीनियरिंग मजदूरों की संग्रामी तैयारी • आपके पत्र मिले • चटकल मजदूरों की हड़ताल का समर्थन • अंडमान निकोबार के मजदूर भूख हड़ताल पर • 'सीटू मजदूर' का उद्घाटन

1 Feb 1979

Ranadive, B. T.

इस अंक में: • चुनावों का सामना विवेक से कीजिए - बी टी रणदिवे • सीटू संघर्ष फंड में और अधिक अनुदान • नाविकों की अखिल भारतीय हड़ताल • रेल समाचार: रेल मजदूरों के साथ विश्वासघात - बी टी रणदिवे • रेल सुरक्षा दल की गुंडागर्दी • ठेका मजदूरों पर दमन सी एस आई आर कर्मचारिओं ने मौजूदा आंदोलन वापस लिया • रोहतास इंडस्ट्रीज में गैरकानूनी तालाबंदी का सीटू द्वारा विरोध • दिल्ली रीजन - फरीदाबाद हत्याकांड: प्रतिरोध संग्राम इंकलाबी दिशा देगा • विश्व कामगार महिला सम्म्मेलन: सभी भेदभावों के विरुद्ध एकजुट संघर्ष का आह्वान • रोमानिया में ट्रेड यूनियन नेताओं का अंन्तर्राष्ट्रीय सेमिनार • विभागीय व्यापर में सामूहिक समझौते पर अंतर्राष्ट्रीय सेमिनार • ओ एन जी सी के कर्मचारिओं के वेतन में बढ़ोतरी • तानाशाही और साम्रदायिक शक्तिओं को करारी शिकस्त दो • ग्रिंडलेस बैंक में देशव्यापी लगातार हड़ताल • पोलिश ट्रेड यूनियन से बातचीत • पश्चिम बंगाल समाचार: चटकल मजदूरों का तानाशाही व साम्प्रदायिक ताकतों को हराने का आह्वान • 20 प्रतिशत बोनस की मांग पर जूट मजदूरों की सांकेतिक हड़ताल • लागन जूट मशीनरी के मजदूरों की छंटनी के खिलाफ हड़ताल • सी आई डब्ल्यू टी सी के मजदूर लगातार हड़ताल पर • मैरीन हाउस पर नाविकों का प्रदर्शन • कार्ड बोर्ड कर्मचारिओं की जीत • बीड़ी मजदूरों का देशव्यापी मांग दिवस • जूट मिल मजदूरों पर पुलिस दमन • हरयाणा: कनकास्ट फैक्ट्री को बंद करने की नापाक कोशिश • हिमाचल प्रदेश: राज्य तदर्थ समिति का गठन • मध्य प्रदेश: मजदूरों के पक्ष में हाई कोर्ट का फैसला • कर्नाटक: बंगलोर सीटू कांफ्रेंस • कल्याण सुविधाओं को लागु करने की मांग • इस्पात उद्योग के ठेका मजदूर संघर्ष की राह पर • ग्रेट ब्रिटेन में हड़ताली दिन तीन गुना हुए • महिलाओं का लगातार शोषण • पुलिस आरोप वापस लेने की मांग

1 Dec 1979

Basu, Jyoti, Ramamurti, P., Roy, Manoranjan

MINUTES 1. Notice 2. Minutes of the Working Committee meeting held at Madras on 10-12 November, 1975 3. 3. Information Documents:- a) State-wide Number of strikes etc. b) Total Circulation of Working Class c) Victimised Railway Workers L/A Fund d) A short Report on West Bengal by Com. Manoranjan Roy e) Report submitted by B.C.M.U. f) Memorundum submitted by CITU West Bengal Committee to the Committee on Jute Industry appt. by Govt. of India g) State of Indian Economy 4. Resolutions :- (a) Condolence Resolutions on (i) Com Chu Teh, (ii) Com Chou En Lai, (iii) Com. Gerald Pereira (iv) Com. S. Krishnamurthy (v) Com. Paul Robeson (vi) Com. Ramkrishna Bharolian (b) Resolution on Martyrs (c) On Wage revision in Vishakhapatnam Shipyard (d) On Victimisation in HMT, IWPL & ECIL (e) On Recent measures against closures (f) On Repression in Cannanore District (g) On Bonus (h) On Proposed Constitutional Ammendments (i) On Repression in South Africa (j) On Unification of Vietnam (k) On Fradulent Compilation of C.P Index No. (l) On Withdrawal of emergency and release of political prisoners (m) On Friendly relations with neighbours (n) On Arrest of Com. N. J. Iyer (o) On Compulsory sterilisation (p) On Attacks in CLW Railway Colony (q) On Continued victimisation of Railway Workers (r) On Arrest & Victimisation of State Govt. Emplys (s) On Arrest of Loco Running Staff leaders (t) On against retrenchment and reduction of wages of jute workers (u) On Resumption of Ambassadorial relations with China (v) On D.A. of State Govt. Employees (w) On Workers sector (x) On Compulsory Deposit Scheme (y) On Workers in coal industry 5. Minutes of the meeting

1 Jul 1976

Umanath, R., Chatterjee, A. P.

इस अंक में: • कोयला मजदूरों का और जबरदस्त संघर्ष होगा • लोको कर्मचारियों पर ज़ुल्म बंद करो • आठ मई से नियमानुसार काम का आह्वान • रेल मजदूरों की रैली • ढाई लाख चटकल मजदूरों की शानदार जीत • छापाखानों में हड़ताल समाप्त, मजदूरों ने वाम-मोर्चा और कांग्रेस सरकारों में फर्क जाना • राजस्थान सूती उद्योग के तीस हजार श्रमिकों की जीत • बिहार बिजली कर्मचारी हड़ताल: दमन की परवाह न कर संघर्ष तेज करने का आह्वान • यूगोस्लाव ट्रेड यूनियन का आठवां सम्मलेन - आर. उमानाथ • कानपूर जूट उद्योग: मजदूरों द्वारा जेल भरो आंदोलन - मिल का संचालन सर्कार अपने हाथों में ले • 'भेल'-सीमेंस षड्यंत्र - भारत हेवी इलेक्ट्रिकल्स को गिरवी रखने की साजिश: आत्मनिर्भरता को दफनाने की नापाक कोशिश • श्रम कानून-3: ई. एस. आई. कानून और कर्मचारी - अरुण प्रकाश चटर्जी • नेशनल सीड्स कारपोरेशन: सवाल स्थाई रोजगार का है • ग्रामीण असंगठित मजदूरों पर बानी केंद्रीय स्थाई कमेटी की बैठक • सिम्पलेक्स मजदूरों का संघर्ष: पुलिस व गुंडों का राज और प्रशासन की ख़ामोशी बर्दाश्त नहीं की जाएगी • जब मियां एस.डी.एम. हो और बीबी मैनेजिंग डायरेक्टर तो। ... • बम्बई में शानदार महिला कर्मचारी सम्मलेन • आद्योगिक संबंध विधेयक के खिलाफ देश भर में सम्मलेन • ई.एस.आई. कर्मचारियों की 3 जुलाई से अनिश्चितकालीन हड़ताल • इंटक के तोड़फोड़ के बावजूद डिस्टिलरी श्रमिकों का सफल संघर्ष • दक्षिण रेलवे मजदूरों का 23वां सम्मलेन

1 Mar 1979