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Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Scrap The Bonus Ordinance | Jyoti Basu • For A New International Labour Standard. CITU Memorandum to ILO. • Greetings To Th: Working Class And People of USSR • Review of Implementation Of Tenancy Legislation In India • CITU Condemns Execution Of Spanish Patriots • Nature And Extent Of Mass Poverty In Asia • The Doctrine Of Loss Of Confidence | Legal Notes • Trade Unions In Sri Lanka Fight For Nationalisation Of Plantations • CITU Convention On Bonus & Flood Relief • DA Formula For Central Government Employees • Newsletters | Kerala, Tamil. Nadu • Mills Facing Crists • Other Regular Features

1 Nov 1975

Rangnekar, P. B., Pandhe, M. K., Roy, Jibon

In This Issue: • Homage to Com. B.T.R: Condolence Meetings in the Country • Tribute to Comrade B.T.R. – P. B. Rangnekar • National Convention Against Communalism • Donation to Tripura Struggle Fund • CITU Extends Support to National Convention Against Communalism • Indian Labour Conference-29th Session – M. K. Pandhe • Comrade Ho Chi Minh • Observance of Centenary May Day • Demand for New Textile Policy • Railwaymen’s Struggle: When will the Victimised be Back to their Jobs? • Conference of State Government Employees Federation • Meeting of TUs With Finance Minister • Right to Work Convention at Durgapur – Jibon Roy • CITU’s Message to Vietnamese Trade Unions on Birth Centenary of Ho Chi Minh

1 Jun 1990

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., Priesto, Roberto

In This Issue: • May Day Manifesto Of The CITU 1974 • CITU General Council Calls For Country-wide Struggle • Policy Statement On Productivity • Railway Workers To Go On General Strike From May 8 • All India State Government Employees Strike—A Grand Success • Public Sector Undertakings And Their Aititude To Labour – A Sample – / Legal Notes • Electricity Employees’ Successful Struggle In Madras • AIPWF Working Committee Decides On Programme Of Struggle • Newsletters / Tamil Nadu, West Bengal • Strike By 6.5 Million Japanese Workers • Fascist Hell In Chile By Roberto Priesto • Other Regular Features

1 May 1974

Pandhe, M. K., Kundapura, Vishwa, Kothari, Ashish

In This Issue: • Eighty Fifth Session Of The ILO– M. K. Pandhe • Com. Yamuna Prasad Shastri is No More • Countrywide Bank Employees' Strike On 4th July • BEFI Resolutions and COD • All Support To Bank Strike On 4th July • CITU Welcomes united resolve of the Five Federations to fight back the move to privatise the Coal Mines • 7th Bihar State Conference Of CITU • First J&K State CITU Conference • Delhi State CITU Conference • CITU Denounces The Ordinance On Out Of Turn Allotment Of Govt Quarters • Working Women’s Karnataka State Convention - Vishwa Kundapura • CITU Centre Observes Foundation Day • LIC Employees’ Contributions • CITU Delegations Visiting Abroad • International Labour Standards In Hong Kong To Be Continued • Three Years Of Mobilization Of Trade Unions • Declaration on the Occasion of the 6th Anniversary of Jan-17, 1991 Aggression Against lraq • International Struggle • Environment vs The Poor - Ashish Kothari

1 Jul 1997

Sen, Tapan, Pandhe, Pramila, Pandhe, M. K. +3

In This Issue: • Editorial: Liberalised Recipe for Economic Offenders • Joint Appeal by Scope and National Trade Unions • Com. Sagarika • National Convention Against Economic Reforms On December 16 • Anniversary Celebration of Pension Scheme Condemned by Workers • Com. Amiya Das Killed by Miscreants • Govt. Pension Scheme: Illusory Defence And Hard Reality - Tapan Sen • Textile Workers’ Demonstration at Delhi on December 5 • Memorandum By Women’s Committee Of Insurance Employees On Reservation Of Woman • Women Demonstrate Before Parliament Demanding 33% Reservation in Assemblies and Parliament - Pramila Pandhe • The Glorious Seven Day Strike by Central Govt. Employees • MP CITU Assails Govt’s Move to Curb Right to Strike by Govt Employees • Indefinite Strike By Guwahati Municipal Corporation Employees • PWD Muster Roll Workers Meet • CITU Calls For Country Wide Movement For Removal Of Ceiling On Bonus • New Challenges Before Bank Employees Movements – M. K. Pandhe • NGOs in India (A report on activities of some NGOs in the country) • Successful Bonus Struggles in Tamilnadu – A. K. Padmanabhan • Workers Struck Work in Russia Over Non Payment or Wages • Mumbai Conference Of Central Govt. Employees & Workers – P. R. Krishnan • Japan… Facing Stagnation - Swadesh Dev Roye • Joint Trade Union Delegation Visit China • ILO Calls for Immediate Action Against Intolerable forms of Child Labour • Demonstration Against Anti-Labour Policies of BJP Govt

1 Dec 1996

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

Roy, Jibon, Bhattacharjee, Shanti

In This Issue: • Secretariat Communique : CiTU Calls For Nationwide joint Campaign against Communalism and Divisive Forces • Participation of Workers in Management Bill—1990 (A Note for Discussion) • Suggestions by the CITU for the New Industrial Relations Law • CITU Opposes Privatisation in Power Sector • Notice for General Council Meeting, 20.6.90 • CITU Delegation on a Goodwill Visit to China • Trade Union School for BHEL Workers • Kisan Sabha Condemns Lathi Charge on Haryana Peasants • CITU Condemns Central Government’s Refusal to accept Multislab system of DA • Successful Strike by Bank Employees • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Railway Ministry's Attitude Out of Tune With Railwaymen’s Aspirations—AIRF • Victory of the Sponge Workers at Palaspanga • Reminiscences: Son‘s Letter to His Father • Central Government Employees of NE Region on Struggle • Women’s Struggle: The Policy of Sex Discrimination Still Haunts Air India • Anganwadi Women to Demonstrate before Parliament • Tamilnadu: Statewide campaign against Unemployment • Police Atrocities on Tribals in Orissa • Orissa State CITU Organises Rally Before Assembly • Confernce of Delhi CITU • Conference of Punjab State CITU • Conference of Fertilizer Workers’ Federation • New Industrial Proposals—Under Shadow of Super 301 – Jibon Roy • TUI-Plantation Condoles Com. BTR’S Death • The Threat of Super 301 – Shanti Bhattacharjee • Statement by AIIEA • Statement by CITU

1 Jul 1990

Pandhe, M. K., Sen, Tapan, Roy, Jibon

In This Issue: • Comrade Monoranjan Roy • Com. Kamal Sarkar • CITU Condoled Death of Com. Manoranjan Roy and Com. Kamal Sarkar • Com. B. N. Rajhans • Magnificent Response to General Strike on 16 June – M. K. Pandhe • Let Private Sector be Privatised First • National Press Nails Down Official Propaganda Against 16 June Strike – M. K. Pandhe • CITU Condemns attack on Striking Himachal Govt. Employees • Professional Workers’ Trade Union Centre • Reconstitution of Board of Directors in Indian Airlines and Air India • CITU Condemns Move to Freeze DA • From Human Development Report • CITU Protests Against Partisan Role of TV • CiTU Demands Adequate Safety and Pollution Control Measures in Steel Industry • CGT Expresses Solidarity With Indian Working Class • Meeting of the Sponsoring Committee of Indian Trade Unions • Victory Against Offloading in Visakhapatnam Naval Dockyard • Job Threats on NBCC • CITU Delegation to visit China • Development for Whom! - Tapan Sen • 4th all India Conference of Water Transport Workers’ Federation of India • International Solidarity Meet at Philippines: A Quest for New Orientation - Jibon Roy

1 Jul 1992

Choudhary, Saroj, Shukla, N. K., Banerjee, Kanai +2

In This Issue: • Cherished Heritage Of October Revolution Will Remain For Ever! • CITU Condemns Military Offensive By Yeltsin Regime • Mass Platform to carry forward fight against Economic Policies Demonstration and burning effigy of Dunkel Proposals • TUs to organise Dharnas against New Labour Law on 7th December • CITU Endorsed Mass Action Plan against Dunkel Proposals • CITU Calls For Urgent Relief To Earthquake Victims • ILO Appreciates CITU’s Report On Organization • Nationwide Indefinite Strike By Postal Employees From 7th December • A Historic Judgment • ONGC Workers To Observe A Day’s Strike On 23rd November Throughout The Country • NFPE Protest Against Reduction Of Interest Rates Of Post Office Savings Schemes • The Public Sector: Still Scaling Great Heights - Saroj Chowdhary • Seminar On Alternative Agricultural Policy – N. K. Shukla • Future Campaign And Struggles • Agricultural Workers Union Calls For Action • Anganwadi Delegation Meets Director Planning Commission • Mass Struggles In Tamilnadu • Attack on Choibari Tea Garden Workers by INTUC and Management • CITU/CTUC Workshop On ‘Now Technology and its Impact • Central Govt. Employees’ Struggle: The Strike That Was Not - Kanai Banerjee • FWFI Working Committee decides to launch nationwide phased agitation • Kerala CITU donates one day’s wages for Earth Quake Victims • In The Wonderland Of Capitalism • Homelessness : Growing Problem In West Europe • Magnificient LRSA Victory: Supreme Court Orders Reinstatement of Victimised Locomen • ICDS threatened with Privatisation • Strengthening Of International Cooperation Of Trade Unions Around The Indian Ocean Region - Chittabrata Majumdar • Get back to where you once belonged. This is what working women in Russia are being told in the wake of economic recession - Fred Weir

1 Nov 1993

Pandhe, M. K., Padmanabhan, A. K., Ganguly, P. K. +1

In This Issue: • Editorial: The Union Budget • Central Budget Does Not Give Relief To Working Class And The Poor • CITU Condemns Anti-People Rail Budget • World Summit On Social Development: No Concrete Measures To End Poverty And Unemployment – M. K. Pandhe • CITU’S Unqualified Support to Central Employees’ Demand for Wage Parity With Public Sector • Kerala News Letter • Tamilnadu News Letter – A. K. Padmanabhan • Workers Fight Against Production Curtailment At Chittaranjan Locomotive Works • On Social Clause In Multilateral Trade Agreements - P. K. Ganguly • The Mexican Crisis • China’s Economy: Review And Prospects - By Wang Zhongyu, Beijing Review, Feb. 20-26, 1995 • Dharna by Insurance Employees

1 Apr 1995

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

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

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

Pandhe, M. K., Varada Rajan, W. R., Ganguly, P. K. +3

In This Issue: • The Midterm Poll And Working Class – M. K. Pandhe • 34th Session Of Indian Labour Conference - A Hoax To The Unorganised Sector Workers – P. K. Ganguly • State of Unorganised Sector Workers: Grim Reality Admitted • Elections, Big Business And Saffron Scribes – W. R. Varada Rajan • Pact Of Financial Services In WTO: American Invasion In Third World Market • The Supreme Court Verdict on Bandh – P. K. Ganguly • The CITU deeply mourns the passing away of Com. Tridib Chowdhury • The CITU strongly denounces the dastardly attack with the intention to murder on Com. Gulab Singh • Closure Of Gas Victims’ Rehabilitation Centres Deprive Victim Women Of Their Livelihood - Zulekha Zabin • Against SC Verdict On Bandh • South Korea: Severe Fall Out Of IMF Package - Tapan Sen • Agricultural Workers: Health Risks • On A Visit To Sri Lanka – A. K. Padmanabhan • Bihar: Electricity Workers Agitate • Coal Ash and Parcel Workers on the move • Successful Bandh Against Bathe Killings in Bihar • lISCO: Steel Workers Demonstrate • Western Hemisphere Workers’ Conference: NAFTA Privatisation And Deregulation • Pension: Settlement of Claims • Workmen Compensation Act • Paternity Leave for Govt Employees • Strike Hits Israel • National Platform Of Mass Organisation • Asia Pacific Graphical Federation • ILO Proposal for a Declaration on Fundamental Rights • Maharashtra : Protest Against Repression • PF: Government Notification • Foundation Stone For BTR Bhavan Laid

1 Jan 1998

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

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

Ganguly, P. K., Choudhary, Saroj, Padmanabhan, A. P. +3

In This Issue: • Magnificent All India Strike By Coal Workers: Six Workers Killed During All India Coal Worker Strike • CITU Condemns Blatant Murder Of Six Striking Coalminers • Meeting of State Govt. Employeees Federation • Report of full Secretariat meeting held on August 12, 13, 1995 • CITU-ILO Workshop on Child Labour • Child Labour In Brick Kiln Industry • MP CITU To Take Out Textile Workers Jatha • Save IDPL Convention • Madhya Pradesh Forms Regional Committees • Kerala News letter: Regional Jathas Against Economic Policies of the Govt. • Report of Standing Committee on Energy • India Observes 50th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki • CITU Commemorates Comrade Kim Il Sung • Contract Labour System In Air Transport In India - Hemant Kumar • China played an important role in defeating fascism in World War-lI • Fifty Years After Hard-Won Triumph: Things To Remember - Israel Epstein

1 Sept 1995

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

Roy, Jibon

In This Issue: • Pre-budget discussion: Fiscal and Economic Policies Criticised • CAT Judgement on hours of Work: A Significant Victory for Loco Running Staff • TUs Say ‘No’ to Retrenchment • CITU Condemns ‘Ekta Yatra’ by BJP • Trade Union Reject Government Note on National Renewal Fund • Indefinite Strike in Bihar NTPC Unit • New Economic Policy—Revealing Itself - Jibon Roy • CITU Secretariat Communique: Dunkel Proposals Seek Complete Surrender of India’s Sovereignty • All India State Govt. Employees to Observe Protest Day • Jute Workers Strike from Jan. 28 • Plantation Workers Conference at Jalpaiguri • Seminar on National Transport Policy • CITU Supports The Striking J& K Government Employees • CITU Condemns the Terrorist Killing of 20 Workers in Punjab • Workshop on Drug and Alcohol Abuse Held • On Developments in Orissa • CITU General Council Meeting • A Study on India’s Power Sector: Problems and Prospects. Theme and content of the proposed study by Industries Research & Services • Can They Hit Back • On the Assets of Monopoly Houses • USA: Recession and Restructuring Plays Havoc With Workers’ Jobs

1 Feb 1992