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    On D. A., Index and Security of Employment: Documents relating to the 21st Session of the Standing Labour Committee (Delhi – 27 December 1963)
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1964) All-India Trade Union Congress
    The following chapters are included: Main conclusions of the Standing Labour Committee (21st Session); On D.A. (Disputes Act), Fair Price shops; Memoranda on Compilation of Consumer Prices Indexes; Security of employment – Some questions; and On arbitration in central sphere. Appendices: Action taken on the main conclusions/recommendations of the 20m session of the standing labour committee; and All-India legislation for the regulation of the Beedi industry – Memorandum prepared by the government of Madras.
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    Bombay Textile General Strike : February 28th to March 11th, 1966: No. 9 - April 1966
    (Communist Party Publication, 1966) Sardesai, S. G.
    200,000 textile workers at Bombay's 60 mills went on strike on 28 February 1966. The booklet has the following subchapters: Demands secured; Key events and dates; The new worker; and The task ahead. Appendix: Text of the agreement-cum-appeal.
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    Common Market: What It Is: Trade Union Education Series 16
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1962) Pandhe, Madhukar Kashinath; Dange, Shripad Amrit; and Dutt, Rajani Palme
    Part One looks at how the European Common Market (ECM) was formed after WWII; part two looks at India, Britain, and West Germany's relations to the market; part three outlines the Indian and other governments' reactions to the market, and the role Britain should play in it, and the policy of different political parties and organisations in India toward it.
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    The Index Fraud : Memoranda submitted to the Experts Committee on Consumer Price Index Numbers, Bombay by AITUC, INTUC and HMS
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1963) All-India Trade Union Congress
    Focuses on the dearness allowance and the cost of living index, which remained stable although prices had increased between 15 and 40 percent in the past year. Includes the following chapters: AITUC memorandum with table showing original specifications and the change noticed in both these specifications on various articles taken for the realisation of Working Class Cost of living index in Bombay, and notes on changes effected in specifications; INTUC memorandum; HMS memorandum. Appendices: Resolution of the Maharashtra government on appointment of expert committee; Extent of error in official Consumer Price Index (CPI).
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    International Socialist Miscellany 3
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1962) Dange, Shripad Amrit; Adhikari, Gangadhar M.
    The book has the following chapters: Abstract and socialist humanism
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    Report at Coimbatore : 26th Session: January 6-12, 1961 Coimbatore.
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1961) Dange, Shripad Amrit
    Report on the 26th Session of the All-India Trade Union Congress (1961) covering the national and international situation, conditions of the Indian working class, specially about wages in the context of increase in productivity and the fulfilment of the Five Year Plans, as well as tasks before the trade union in the coming period. It has the following chapter titles: Socialism advances: imperialism retreats: nations liberated; Plan production – growth and new dangers; Prices, wages – who is prosperous?; Struggles – unity of the class; Government labour policy: unity of the class and political consciousness; Appendices: Statement on the murder of Patrice Lumumba; Extracts from Lok Sabha debates; Ownership and control.
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    Index Fraud in Ahmedabad: AITUC's Note sent to the Experts Committee on Ahmedabad Index
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1964) All-India Trade Union Congress
    Textile worker strikes in Ahmedabad were held on 8 August 1964 to protest against the compulsory deposit scheme. Prices have risen steadily, the official consumer price index in Ahmedabad was wrong, and workers have been missed out on their rightful income. Present wage scales mean workers are not earning enough.
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    For defence of motherland, T.U. unity and socialism : Report to the General Council of the AITUC, New Delhi, 16-18 November 1962
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1962) Dange, Shripad Amrit
    In the context of the current national emergency, the AITUC must decide on its position toward the India-China ‘war’.
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    All-India Trade Union Congress Report of the Twenty-sixth Session, 1957
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1960) All-India Trade Union Congress
    Part of the document is indecipherable due to scan quality. The following sections can be made out: Membership of four central TU organisations (1958-59) by industry and region
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    The Indian working class: Size and shape
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1966) Sane, G. D.
    The book asks how far the working class in India is ready to lead the struggle for socialism at this point in time (1966), and attempts to answer the questions posed by AITUC general secretary S. A. Dange in 1963: “Has there been any basic change in the industrial structure of the country? What is the direction of this change? Has it affected the working class? – size, number, trade, caste, etc?” It focuses primarily on the period between 1951 and 1962, and has the following chapters: A brief survey; Historical growth of factory employment; Industrywise changes in the working class; Regional changes in the working class; Employment in the public sector; Employment in the unorganised sector; White collar workers; Occupational structure; Employment of women; Stabilisation and mobility; Literacy and education among industrial workers.