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Nguyen Trong Con, Chatterjee, A. P.

n This Issue: • The Economic Survey And The Budget • General Strike In Ceylon In Support Of Govt. Press Workers • Thirty Years Of Vietnamese Trade Unions | Nguyen Trong Con [Continued from previous issue] • Railway Board On Railwaymen’s Strike • Railway Budget – Between The Lines • Again On The Meaning Of “Industry” | Legal Notes • Tamil Nadu Newsletter • Karnataka Newsletter • Com. Gerald Pereira • Other Regular Features

1 Apr 1976

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

In This Issue: • A Menacing Situation – B. T. Ranadive • CITU Memorandum To The Workers Education Review Committee • Movement Against Wage-Freeze All Over India • Newspaper Employees Need Action Programme – by Samarjit Ghosh, • Court Set Aside Removal Orders/Railwaymen • Absolute Liability/Legal Notes • West Bengal Beedi Workers To Go On Strike On Charter Of Demands • Maharashtra Bundh Of October 30—A Grand Success • Newsletters: Tamilnadu, Rajasthan, Kerala, West Bengal • Second Conference Of West Bengal CITU • SIMCO Workers join CITU • Scindia Employees Win Significant Victory • Other Regular Features

1 Dec 1974

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • CITU Working Committee Reviews Activities • Condition Of Black Workers In South Africa • Exploitation Of Mica Workers • CITU Demands Scrapping Of Compulsory Deposit Scheme • Termination and Retrenchment | Legal Notes • Railwaymen: A. I. R. F. Convention • Finances And Working Of Big Business In 1973-74 • On Victimisation In H.M.T., I.D.P.L And E.C.1.L • On Repression in South Africa • On Friendly Relations With Neighbours • Administration And Vested interests • Struggles in Capitalist Countries • BOOK NEWS: Women Workers Of India by Vimal Ranadive • Will Tomorrow Bring Them Freedom? • Other Regular Features

1 Aug 1976

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

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

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: • 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

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

In This Issue: • ALL HELP TO THE VALIANT RAILWAY WORKERS – B. T. Ranadive • The Historic All-India Railway Strike / Day By Day • Magnificent Solidarity Action on May 15 • May Day Observed Amidst Countrywide Wave of Strike Struggles • Central Government Employees Solidarity With Railwaymen • Suppression of T.U. Rights Of Railway Workers • Railway Strike : ALR’s Lying Propaganda Nailed Down • May 3 : National Protest Action Day Observed • South Vietnam Workers In The Struggle Against U.S. Aggressors • May Day Pledge Of The Korean Workers • A Shameful Document / Legal Notes • India Government Violates ILO Convention “Equal Remuneration For Men And Women” • International Solidarity For Striking Railway Workers • Beedi Workers’ Conference / West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh • Comrade Ramaswamy • Other Regular Features

1 Jun 1974

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

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

Nguyen Trong Con

In This Issue: • The Safety And Healthiness Of The Working Environment • Thirty years of Vietnamese Trade Unions – Nguyen Trong Con • Size And Distribution Of Land Holdings In India • How New China Keeps Commodity Prices Stable • Status of Women Workers • 32 Women Workers Retrenched in Ritz Continental Hotel • A Total Ban On Closures • Situation in Bihar Martin Railways • Kota Atomic Power Workers Face Retrenchment • Anti-Worker Move Of J. K. Rayon Management Foiled • Tamilnadu Newsletter • Death Toll Since Chasnala Disaster • CITU Appears Before Chasnala Court Of Enquiry • TUI Body Protests Against Victimization Of Hotel Workers • Other Regular Features

1 Mar 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

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

Ranadive, B. T.

इस अंक में: • सभी ट्रेड यूनियनों का संयुक्त मंच बनाने के लिए सीटू का आह्वान • श्रमिक महिला मांग दिवस - 30 मई • रिजर्व बैंक कर्मचारी संघर्ष की राह पर • दिल्ली नगर निगम के कर्मचारियों का संघर्ष • शोक समाचार • केरल के श्रमिकों को सीटू की बधाई • सीटू द्वारा एसोसिएटेड जरनल्ज के मज़दूरों की मांग का समर्थन • औद्योगिक संबंध बिल के खिलाफ संघर्ष और तेज किया जाएगा - राष्ट्रीय अभियान समिति • राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा पुरस्कार और श्रमवीर राष्ट्रीय पुरस्कार योजनाएं • रेलवे: रेल कर्मचारियों और यात्रियों में एकता प्रयास • रेल कर्मचारियों की कनफेडेरशन द्वारा नियमानुसार काम • हड़ताल सफल • ए आई आर एफ द्वारा हड़ताल के लिए मतदान का फैसला • बी आर एम एस द्वारा मान्यता की मांग • रेलवे बोर्ड ने एल आर एस ए के साथ हुए समझौते को लागू करने में देर की • रेल कर्मचारियों के खिलाफ क्षेत्रीय सेना के प्रयोग की सीटू द्वारा निंदा • रेलवे ठेका मजदूरों की संघर्ष की तयारी • दिल्ली के कपडा मजदूरों के साथ हर साल चार करोड़ रूपये की ठगी • कपडा मजदूरों की हड़ताल का समर्थन • आटो पिन्ज एम्प्लॉईज़ यूनियन, फरीदाबाद - सवा साल बाद भी मजदूरों का मनोबल बरकरार • सीटू द्वारा दिल्ली के कपडा मजदूरों के संघर्ष का समर्थन • सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र की यूनियनों का कनवेंशन बैंगलोर में • सीटू द्वारा पंजाब में पुलिसकर्मियों की गिरफ़्तारी की आलोचना • चौथे सीटू सम्मलेन को बिरादराना संदेश • बम्बई कपडा मजदूरों का नया वेतन समझौता

1 Jun 1979

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