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All-India Trade Union Congress Report of the Eight Session 1927
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1927) All-India Trade Union Congress
Includes: proceedings. Speeches by the AITUC president, and appendices relating to labour on the railway; Seamen; Coal; Infant mortality; Housing; Truck act; Prompt payment of wages; Indian labour abroad. GENERAL SECRETARY’S REPORT: AITUC strength; Provincial committees and provincial secretaries; Delhi session of congress; Executive council meetings; Election; Circulars; Affiliated unions; Strikes and lockouts; Petroleum workers strike; Textile workers strike at Coimbatore; Mill worker strikes; Labour legislation; Indian Mines Act; Government resolution on International Labour Conference; Indian Penal Code; All-India Trade Union Bulletin; Indian Labour Journals; May Day celebrations; International labour conference; Indian fraternal delegates; Delegations from abroad; T. Mardy Jones, MP, tour of India on labour conditions; General labour conditions in India; AITUC financial position; Money from USSR. Speeches by A. A. Parcell, MP; J. Hallsworth; T Mardy Jones, MP; British delegations speeches. RESOLUTIONS: Royal commission on reforms; Miss Mayo’s “Mother India”; Political prisoners; Passport to Messrs. Saklatwala, Thengdi and Ghate; Protest against imperialism; Soviet anniversary; China; Anglo-Russian unity; Prosecution of P. Spratt; General labour demands; Unemployment; Workmen’s Compensation Act; Policy of protection and workers’ interests; Industrial Housing conditions; Legislation against imposition of fines; Amendment of Indian Factories Act; Seamen’s grievances; Textile workers grievances; Railwaymen’s grievances; Press workers’ grievances; Miners’ grievances; Cordite factory workers; Telegragh peons; Government Employees’ Unions; Council of actions; Delegation to International Labour Conference. Statement showing the affiliation fees received and due from affiliated unions. Statement of accounts. List of affiliated unions with their addresses. Constitution of the AITUC.
All-India Trade Union Congress: Report Fifteenth Session, 1935
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1935) All-India Trade Union Congress
Includes: proceedings, with speeches by chairman of the reception committee S. H. Jhabvala; by AITUC president Maniben Kara; by Jawaharial Nehru. GENERAL SECRETARY KHED-GIKAR’S REPORT: United front; Calcutta session; Bombay Girni Kamgar Union election; Bombay Dock Workers’ union; Amalgamation of rival unions; Efforts for unity with NTUF; Affiliation of unions from the Red TUC; United front with the All India Congress Socialist Party; Relations with the Indian National Congress; Activities; Informal meetings; Observance of days; Labour week; Labour legislation; Strikes; Repression; Non-recognition of trade unions; Provincial committees; New unions; Affiliation of new unions; Funds. RESOLUTIONS: Trade union unity; repression; War; Greetings to Abysinnia; Relations with Indian National Congress; Collective representation; Scheme of representation—DCC executive, PCC and annual session, AICC, TU constituencies, method of election; Development of political consciousness; Labour constituencies; Payment of wage bills; Factories’ Act; Press workers; Jamshedpur Metal Workers’ union; Peasantry; Majoor Mahajan Ahmedabad; Railway retrenchment; Unemployment; Immediate tasks; New office bearers. List of affiliated unions for the year 1936-37; AITUC constitution.
All-India Trade Union Congress: Report Eighteenth Session, 1940
(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
Report Nineteenth Session of The All-India Trade Union Congress. Cawnpore 1942
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1942) All-India Trade Union Congress
Includes: the proceedings. REPORT OF THE GENERAL SECRETARY: Affiliated union numbers; ASITUC office; Resolutions of the 18th session; AITUC provincial committees; Indian government invitation to a conference with labour representatives; Internal labour conference; General condition of the trade union movement; Dearness allowance; AITUC attitude to war; National Services ordinance; Hours under the Factories’ Act; Investigations into labour conditions. Statement of accounts. Amendments to the constitution. RESOLUTIONS: Recognition of trade unions and factory committees; AITUC working committee memoranda; Government inquiry committees on conditions of labour; Detainees; Restrictions on Suresh Chandra Banerjee; Budge-Budge jute workers strike; Appeal to workers during panic of war; Protective measure and compensation for war risk; National services ordinances; Ordinances of government affecting the freedom of labour; Increase in basic wages and grant of dearness allowance; War-risk bonus to Indian seamen; Resolutions regarding attitude to War – proposed but not passed. Working committee decisions. General council decisions; Resolutions of the New General Council; Affiliated unions; Members of general council; List of attendees to 19th session; AITUC constitution.
All-India Trade Union Congress: Report, Twentieth Session: Nagpur 1943
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1943) All-India Trade Union Congress
Includes: the proceedings; REPORT OF THE GENERAL SECRETARY: AITUC strength; Detention of the president and members of the Working Committee and General Council; Observation of special days by AITUC; Organisational tours by AITUC office bearers; Provincial committee of the AITUC; Consultations by government; Tripartite labour conference; Representations to provincial governments; Attitude to war of AITUC; Workers and political situation; Important labour struggles; Working of war time ordinances; Problems of labour legislation. Statement of accounts. RESOLUTIONS: Greetings for May Day, to the Red Army, to the Chinese people; Indians in South Africa; Kayyur comrades; Repression; Defence of India Act; Dearness allowance; Rationing; Food crisis; Railway workers; Dismissals on railways for desertion; Textile worker demands; Seamen; Jute workers; Khewra salt miners; Tea plantation workers; Paper industry; Digboi petroleum workers; Bidi (beedi) workers; Primary school teachers; Baroda state trade union legislation; Repression in Cochi and Travancore; ARP measures in Bengal; Health insurance; Tripartite conference; Draft resolutions that were not passed. Amendments to the constitution. Resolutions passed at working committee meeting. Resolutions passed at general council meeting. Resolutions of new general council. Affiliated unions. Members of general council. List of attendees to 20th session. AITUC constitution.
In the rear of the 14th army : Why India is not mobilised
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1944) Dange, Shripad Amrit
British troops in India and holding the Burma front against the Japanese have been suffering badly from disease and poor organization, and have apparently been forgotten. The booklet is a summary of the speech Dange, Shripad Amrit gave to the Trade Union Group of Members of the House of Commons on 5 December 1944 about the situation in India. Under the title “Chaos in India”, it includes the following subchapters: Legacy of the past; Bureaucratic incompetence; Transport; Coal muddle; Famine; Failure to rely on Peoples’ organisations; Industrial workers; Trade Union organization and gains; Rise in cost of living. Depreciation of wages; Attempts at disrupting trade unions, the peasantry, and people’s unity.
All-India Trade Union Congress: Report Twenty-First Session: Madras, 1945
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1945) All-India Trade Union Congress
Includes: the proceedings: amendments to the constitution. Elections. General council meeting. Table of affiliated membership. GENERAL SECRETARY’S REPORT: Strength of the AITUC; Meetings; Provincial and regional conferences; Visits to affiliated unions; Activities of provincial and regional committees; Regional councils in Gujarat, Khandesh, Andhra, Kerala; Programme for extension of AITUC activities; AITUC circulars and publications; AITUC finances; Tripartite deliberations—Standing labour committees, plenary tripartite conferences, action on tripartite deliberations; Representations made to government; AITUC representation on government committees; Indian workers representative at ILO conference; World trade union conference; Economic and political situation; Workers and the political situation; Labour in Indian states; AITUC presidents tour to Great Britain; Fraternal greetings; ILO conference for Southeast Asua; 21st session of the AITUC. RESOLUTIONS: The faith of the AITUC; Martyrs for Indian Freedom; Workers and the political situation; Suppression of civil liberties; Ban on the Indian National Congress; Release of the Congress Working Committee members; Chimur and Ashti prisoners; Greetings to the Red Army; Greece; British labour delegation; Invitation to Soviet Trade Union representatives; On planning; Dearness allowance and public wages; Rationing for industrial workers; Involuntary unemployment; Operation of National Service ordinance; Delay in adjudication and conciliation; Weekly Holidays’ Act; Recommendations of Labour Enquiry Committee; Indian states; Malaria epidemic in workers’ areas in Bengal; Labour policy of the Madras government; Railway wokers’ demands; Private motor drivers; Textile workers; Handloom weavers; Jute workers; Labour in coal mines; Kolar gold fields workers; Khewra salt mine workers; Mica workers; Iron and steel industry workers at Jamshedpur; Paper and press workers; Tea plantation workers; Workers employed by contract system. Affiliated unions; General council members; Addresses of provincial committees and regional councils of AITUC; List of attendees to 21st session; AITUC constitution.
Report regarding Representative Character of the All-India Trade Union Congress and the Indian Federation of Labour 1946
(Manager of Publications, 1946) Joshi, Sitaram Chintaman
This interim report was commissioned by order from the Labour Department (No. LC. 28(1), dated 2nd May 1946) to find out whether the All-India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) or the Indian Federation of Labour (IFL) was most representative of workers in India. The most representative organization of workers need to be identified under article 389 of the Treaty of Versailles. It concludes that the AITUC is increasingly becoming more representative from almost every point of view and that Indian Federation of Labour is gradually losing on that score. It also includes state-by-state membership numbers; a note on unions in the mining industry in Bihar.
All-India Trade Union Congress: Report Twenty-Second Session: Calcutta, 1947
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1947) All-India Trade Union Congress
Includes proceedings. GENERAL SECRETARY’S REPORT: The Working Committee; General Council; Standing Credentials committee; Office bearers’ tours; Provincial and regional conferences and councils; Industrial conferences; head office; Tripartite deliberations; Five year labour plan; AITUC representatives on government committees; ILO; World Federation of trade unions; Political situation; Working class situation; Labour legislation; AITUC’s sympathies with freedom struggles; President’s statements; Finances. Appendices: Working committee statement on unemployment, cuts in dearness allowance and wages; Industrial disputes legislation; Communal riots; Trade union liberties; Police firing; Housing for industrial workers; Accounts. REOLUTIONS: AITUC’s main objective; Nationalisation of industries; Industrial workers’ wages and housing; Cloth shortage; Unemployment; Basic Demands Day; Communal riots; Trade union liberties and riots; Repression in British India; Repressive legislation; Kisan struggles; Government’s five-year labour programme; Industrial disputes legislation bill; Workmen’s State Insurance bill; Workmen’s Compensation Act; Holidays with pay; Employment exchanges; Factories Act; Labour policy; Bombay Industrial Relations bill; Industrial Relations Bill of C.P. and Berar; Police firing in Calcutta; Strikes in Calcutta; UP (Uttar Pradesh) labour enquiry committee; Working class struggles in states; Railwaymen; Cotton textile workers; Jute textile workers; Coal miners; Plantation workers; Indian seamen; Motor transport workers; Printing press workers; Glass industry workers; Petroleum workers; Municipal workers; Post and telegraph workers; Clerical and administrative workers; Primary school teachers; Untouchable workers. Affiliated unions; General council members; Provincial committees; Delegates; Constitution.
India's freedom struggle and the Communist party of India
(Communist Party Publication, 1948) Farooqi, M.
The booklet defines the coming of the British and other Europeans as the first invasion of India, and that the starting point of India’s slavery was the defeat of Nawab Sirajuddaullah’s forces in the Battle of Plassey (1757), and argues that the working class and its party, the Communist Party of India (CPI) made an immense contribution to India’s independence. It has three chapters: Colonial exploitation of India; Resistance to colonial rule and the development of the national-liberation struggle; and the Role of the CPI in the freedom struggle.
All-India Trade Union Congress Report of the Twenty-third Session, 1949
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1949) All-India Trade Union Congress
Includes: Report on Work Done (From Feb. 1947 to March 1949): Deepening economic crisis; Jute; Cotton textiles; Railways; Mines; Mineral and metal industry; Tea plantations; Municipal services; Other employees; Agricultural labour; Dearness allowance; Unemployment; Increased workload; Capitalist profits; Textiles; Clarification of strikes; The struggle; AITUC and WFTU. Working committee (in relation to Pakistan); General council; Standing credentials committee; Organizational work at head office. WORK ON OFFICIAL BODIES: 8th Indian Labour Conference; 9th Labour Conference and 10th Standing Labour Committee; 11th Standing Labour Committee; Committees under Industrial Truce Resolution. Indian Industrial tripartite committees; Other committees appointed by the Indian government; ILO. Appendices: Resolution on desertions; Resolution on Industrial Truce; N. M. Joshi’s statement; Statement of accounts. RESOLUTIONS on: Basic demands; Workers resist; Unemployment; Trade union rights; Railways; Railway enquiry report; INTUC; Comrade Ganapathy; Telangala struggle; Detenus’ demands; Repression and release of trade union leaders; Commonwealth pact; Atlantic pact; Peasants’ struggle against procurement plan; Post and telegraph employees; Bombay municipal workers’ strike; World Peace Congress; Jute workers; Kali Bannerji’s arrest; Firings in Calcutta; Textile workers’ conference; Martyrs; Death sentences on Hyderabad peasant leaders; Detenus’ aid relief; Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation; Militant movement of the middle class; Calcutta tram workers; Municipal workers of West Bengal. STRIKE DIARY: Textiles; Jute; Other industries; Ordnance factories; Mines; Railways; Dock and port trust workers; Bus and tram labour; Municipal employees; Miscellaneous; Bidi (Beedi), cigar and hotel etc. workers. Constitutional amendments.
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.
Capital and Labour in the Jute Industry
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1953) Gupta, Indrajit
A report to the 1952 AITUC convention in Calcutta, the booklet is primarily an attempt to look at the main problems facing workers and trade union organisers not only in the jute industry, but in a number of important industries.
Report and Resolutions
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1953)
Reports and resolutions from the Working Committee on Unemployment and government in Parliament (1953) includes the following: View of Finance Minister Mr. Deshmukh; Report of AITUC Working Committee (Calcutta, August 17-18); Report to AITUC Working Committee (Trade union activity; Growth of unemployment and failure of five-year plan; Seven-point AITUC programme for immediate relief; United defence of employment & living standards; Set backs during 1952; Defeat bourgeois disruption on national question; International situation-Effects of Marshall Plan and Growth of WFTU; Growing urge for TU unity; Korean and Chinese people upset imperialist war plans; Third world congress of WFTU; AITUC activities in 1952); RESOLUTIONS: Tributes to Stalin; On Com. S. V. Deshpande; Com. Shanta Mukherjee; Police firings; Third World Trade Union Conference; Retrenchment and unemployment. APPENDICES: Resolution of UTUC General Council in relation to HMS; Unemployment in parliament – Government refuses relief.
In a new period new tasks : Trade Union Publication Series No. 2
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1953) Di Vittorio, Giuseppe
This follows on from the first report by WFTU General Secretary Saillant about the decline of workers’ living conditions in capitalist and colonial countries. It looks at the fundamental world situation to see the stage of countries’ economic development and their degree of dependence on imperialist groups and governments. The aim of the booklet is to draw worker and the world trade union movement’s attention to the development of monopoly domination over national and world economies, to understand people’s living conditions, to show the urgent need for development and progress of the entire society, and what workers and trade unionists must do to counter monopoly domination, or face its dire consequences.
Strengthen united action : Report of Brother Louis Saillant, General Secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions at the Third World Trade Union Congress. Vienna, October 10-21, 1953. Trade Union Publication Series No. 3
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1953) Saillant, Louis
The report outlines how the WFTU was formed, and what it does. It has the following chapters: Report of the activity of the WFTU and the tasks arising for the trade unions in strengthening united action of the workers in the fight for the improvement of their living standards and in defence of peace; The important changes which have taken place in the international situation; Record of the Marshall policy, record of poverty for the workers (Higher cost of living; Higher taxes; Lack of full employment, more unemployment; The super-exploitation of the workers and increased capitalist profits; The rich get richer and the poor get poorer); The progress of the workers’ struggles for their demands and the irresistible upsurge of their unity of action; The exemplary economic and social development in the socialist camp; A new aspect of the struggles of the workers on an international level – The defence of social security; The WFTU and UNO; The need to defend, consolidate and extend trade union rights and to ensure democracy throughout the trade unions; The importance of well-directed trade union work on the question of wages and against unemployment; The fight for peace, the decisive task for all trade union organisations; To achieve unity of action among the workers and pave the way for trade union unity is the basic task of the WFTU; International solidarity – The basis of all activities of the WFTU.
Report on Jamshedpur Trade Unions
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1953) Amjad, Ali
The short pamphlet outlines the steel and engineering industries in Jamshedpur, the largest centre of the Industries in India. It looks at the industry as a whole, production capacity, and worker conditions and demands.
Forced labour in India : Trade Union Publication Series No. 4
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1954) Chitnis, G. V.
The booklet looks at the ‘forced labour’ situation in India in 1954, repudiating the findings of the Ad-hoc Committee on forced labour (headed by Sir Ramaswamy Mudalair) appointed by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that there were no forced labour camps in India. While forced labour has been banned under Indian law, this law has been delayed, and is not enforced in many areas. The booklet looks at forced labour in agriculture, forest areas, industry, plantations, mines, other industries, and Gorakhpuri labour; it also looks at reasons for, and worker and state action against forced labour.
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.
On Rationalisation : Report submitted to the General Council of the All-India Trade Union Congress . November 14-18, 1954. (Revised and brought up-to-date)
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1954) Panikkar, K. B.
The report states that rationalisation has become an all-out employer offensive, with government support, on workers across the board. Rationalisation, as defined, will result in widespread job losses. Subchapters include: Rationalisation in the textile industry (Madras, Kanpur, Bombay, Solapur, West Bengal, Baroda, Ahmedabad); Rationalisation in the jute industry (Work load, accidents); Rationalisation in other industries and centres; Not for increased production; Not helpful to industrial development; Question of rehabilitation; No benefit to the customer; A progressive step?; Consequences of rationalisation; Workers’ resistance; repercussion on wage level; Rationalise managements; Futility of projects; Unite to oppose rationalisation.