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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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    S. A. Dange on Mundhra Affair
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1958) Dange, Shripad Amrit
    AITUC general secretary’s speech to parliament on the Mundhra Affair, as well as resolutions on the Chagla report.
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    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.
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    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
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    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.
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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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    Report on Bombay Motor Transport Workers
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1954) B. Buch, Madhubhai
    The 1953 or 1954 (?) report looks at the nature of the Bombay transport industry, recent changes and current working conditions, and outlines union demands.
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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.