Coimbatore District Textiles

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    A Brief Sketch of the Coimbatore District Textile Workers' Union
    Document on the CDTWU. Formed at Udayar Palayam on 12 Dec, 1937 under the Presidentship of NG Ramasamy. Includes brief remarks on the struggles of the union for dearness allowance, in the freedom struggle, for wages, and against retrenchment in 1948 and the general strike in the same year. Union successful in its struggle for retrenchment compensation for 6600 workers in 1948, power-cut compensation for mill workers in Tamil Nadu with half-day wages for 45 days in 1950, etc.
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    Awards and Settlements – South India Mill Owners Association,1984
    Text of Awards and Settlements, from 1956 to 1979. These include Settlement on Work Assignments and Wages; Awards on Industrial Disputes; Industrywise Memorandum of Settlement; Press Note of the Government on the revised pay scale for Staff; Memorandum of Settlement on Rationalisation; Decision of the Chief Minister of Madras on Revision of Wages in New Mills; Gratuity Scheme in Industrial Dispute; General Norms of Wages and Work Assignments; Recommendations of the First and Second Central Textile Wage Boards; Recommendations of the Tripartite Committee on Revision of Wages (Karnataka); Report of the Court of Enquiry for Textile Industry (Kerala); Report of the Textile Committee on Interim Relief (Andhra Pradesh) etc.
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    Dissertation on the Conditions and Attitudes of Workers During Lock-Out and After - with Special Reference to Radha Krishnan Mills
    (1999) Krishnan, B. Manoj
    Project Report of Manoj Jaikrishnan, submitted to the Madurai Kamaraj University, in fulfillment of the requirements of a Master of Labour Management Degree. The report includes - a study of strikes and lock-outs, features of industrial conflicts, the conditions of workers during industrial disputes, discussion of various strategies adopted by workers such as lock-outs, strikes, closures, etc., and the importance of harmonious industrial relations.
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    Collective Bargaining Practices in Textile and Non-Textile Industries in Coimbatore
    (1983) Patil, P. R.
    Study was undertaken by BR Patil, from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, on collective bargaining practices in the textile and non-textile industries in Coimbatore. The study includes chapters on the evolution of collective bargaining practices; procedures adopted by management and union in arriving at consultative decisions and the problems in collective bargaining; the use of tripartite methods to resolve industrial disputes; specific study of South India Mill Owners Association and collective bargaining.
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    Kovai Mill Workers in Public Service
    (1944)
    Summary of a booklet "Kovai Mill Workers in Public Service", originally published in 1944, during the height of the Second World War, when mill workers were working under harsh conditions of food scarcity, insufficient wage, long working hours, etc. The summary includes - the gist of the Forward written by Com K Ramani and the General Secretary's Report. General Secretary's Report contains mill workers' struggle for Bonus during the war; efforts at building unity between Kovai and Singanallur workers; troubles faced by mill workers due to the plague epidemic; struggle to democratize co-operative stores' management; resolutions to increase productivity during the war; rise in basic wages; hospital benefits; ration of firewood to be sold; establishment of a 9-hour shift in all mills, etc.,