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    Withdraw the Black Bills: Labour Relations Bill and Trade Union Bills analysed
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1950) All-India Trade Union Congress
    Pamphlet focuses on statements submitted by AITUC delegattion to the Triparties Labour Conference to discuss the Labour Relations Bill and Trade Unions Bill in a meeting on March 20 and 21 1950. The delegate considers these bills fascist measures.
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    The budget & the plan : Capitalist offensive and the people (Speech in parliament)
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1958) Dange, Shripad Amrit
    A speech by Dange, Shripad Amrit to parliament in reaction to the 1958 budget. Arguing that nothing had changed in the budget, and that the most needy were not getting the relief they needed, Dange's speech has the following subchapters: Everything is going up except wages; US aid - no philanthropy; Reason - recession at home; Gives 66 million, reaps 241 million; End of boom in India; Capitalist slogan - Denationalise, Ours - "More nationalisation"; Morality of our bourgeoisie; Dividend hunters, cheif ministers and steel workers; Mobilise LIC funds, company reserves; Stop monopoly growth; Reduce oil prices; Scandal in defence stores purchase; HAL strike - ensure trade union rights; produce more and save more.
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    Government labour policy and the bank case
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1954) Dange, Shripad Amrit
    Taken from a speech given by Dange, Shripad Amrit to trade union functionaries, it discusses the resignation of Minister for Labour Giri, which was significant because it brought the government’s labour policy and the bank award to public attention, and reveals the Nehru government’s pro-monopolist policy.
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    Capital and Labour in the Indian Tea Industry
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1954) Kumar Bose, Sanat
    The book looks at the history and growth of the tea industry in India, with chapters coming under two main sections: Origins and Growth (of the tea industry), and Labour in the Tea Gardens.
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    24th Session of the All-India Trade Union Congress : Reports & resolutions. Calcutta, May 27-29, 1954
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1954) All-India Trade Union Congress
    See note on title. Includes: An appeal to all workers and trade unions for unity; Review of the 24th Session; Preparations and proceedings; AITUC presidential speech by V. Chakkarai Chettlar; Greetings to the session; Report of the general secretary; Report on the organisation of the AITUC; Resolutions (though these are not complete).
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    Report of The All-Hyderabad Trade Union Congress : Presented by Dr. Raj Bahudur Gour, M.P. to the Second Session of the AITUC (April 11-13, 1954.). Trade Union Publication Series No. 11
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1954) All-India Trade Union Congress
    The Hyderabad report to the Second Session of the AITUC in 1954 deals with the years 1951-54. The period has been one of deepening economic crisis and growing unemployment, signifying the failure of government policies. It contains the following sections: Growing unemployment; Industrial collapse; Rationalisation and workload; Absenteeism – Workers’ device to snatch some leisure; Corruption and waste; More accidents – Result of increased workload and corruption; Victimisation and attack on trade-union rights; Repression on the working class; Low wages and high costs of living; Fiasco of government policies; Struggles and achievements of the working class; Cement; Gold workers’ struggles; Coalminers’ struggles; Cotton textiles; Road transport; Municipalities; Cigarette workers’ achievements; Bidi workers’ struggles; Civil supplies employees; PWD employees; Chemical group; Shops and establishments; The labour department and its activities; General struggles and observance of days; Main problems facing the workers; Problems of social security; Provident fund; Deteriorating health; Housing; Fight for linguistic states; The fight for peace and against the American threat of enslavement; and Broad lessons for unity, organization and struggle.
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    Seventeenth Tripartite : Official texts of Conclusions of the 17th Indian Labour Conference. Documents on Industrial Relations, Works Committees, etc. AITUC's Memorandum on Government's Labour Policy
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1959) All-India Trade Union Congress
    Incl. Memorandum on Industrial Relations, Machinery for Collective Bargaining and the Settlement of Industrial Disputes, Problems Relating to Trade Union Organisation, Memorandum on Works Committees, Service Conditions of Domestic Servants, Payl Roll Savings Scheme, Proposal to Revise Rates of Compensation in the Workmens Compensation Act, On Delinking of Provident Fund Benefits from Gratuity for the Purpose of Granting Exemption to Establishments or Employees Covered Under the Employees' Provident Act, 1952 from the Operation of the Provisions of the Employees Provident Funds Scheme, 1952, AITUC's Comments on Government's Memorandum on Industrial Relations
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    Indian Hotel Workers
    (Illegible, 1955) Illegible
    The trade union movement in the hotel industry is limited to the big cities. The booklet, which looks at the challenges facing workers in the hotel industry, is written in preparation for the Second International Conference of Food, Tobacco, Hotel & Restaurant Workmen in Bulgaria in 1955.
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    Report of the study group on social security 1958
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1958) All-India Trade Union Congress
    To pursue the recommendations on labour policy for the second Indian five-year plan, the Ministry of Labour and Employment set up a study group of representatives. The pamphlet has the following chapters: Conclusions and recommendations; Acheivements and criticisms of existing schemes; Feasibility of an integrated scheme; The scheme; and the Conclusion, as well as different appendices and annexures.
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    All-India Trade Union Congress: Report Eighteenth Session, 1935-36
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1940) All-India Trade Union Congress
    Includes the report of the general secretary from April 1938 to September 1940: AITUC strength; Affiliations; General council and working committee meetings; Ciculars; Change of office bearers; Labour policy under provincial autonomy; the European War and its effects on the conditions of Indian labour; repression under the Defence of India Act; AITUC attitude to war; Central legislation; Conference of labour ministers; Provincial legislation; International labour office; Textile labour conference; All-India Kisan Sibha and the AITUC; National planning committee; Biennial session of AITUC. RESOLUTIONS: Amendment to the Payment of Wages Act; Conscription of skilled labour; War allowance; Repression by government; Labour legislation; Settlement of trade disputes in Bihar; Amendment to Workmen’s Compensation Act; AITUC attitude to war; Unity of AITUC and NTUF. Resolutions of the working committee 1938. Appendices: Affiliated unions; Members of the general council; List of delegates.