ALL INDIA RAILWAYMEN'S FEDERATION

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Overall Structure of collections: 1. AIRF General Strike 1974 (160-B) 24-6-1974 to 16-5-1975 2. National Convention of Railwaymen (AIRF 160-B(V) 27-2-1974) 3. Press statements General Strike-1974 (File No. 160-B-IX) 4. Strike Notices (File No. NCCRS/1/74(ii)/AIRF 160-B) 5. General Strike 1973 (File No . AIRF / 160-B (VIII) ) 6. File No. AIRF 160-B VIII 7. National Coordination Committee of Railwaymen's Struggle (NCCRS) (File No. NCCRS/1/74/Part-I) 8. Fact Finding Mission of the ITF May 1974 General Strike (File No. AIRF/160-B Part-IV-a) 9. East Bengal Railway Labour Review Vol. II, III, IV, 1929 10. NCCRS/1/74 (Part-II) Total Pages - 539 11. National Organisations Committee Railwaymen Strike (NCCRS /I/74 Part II /74-75) 12. General Strike 1973, Meeting with Categorial Association on…(AIRF/ 160 -B (iii)) 13. AIRF 160- B Part 1 (a) 14. AIRF 160- B General Strike 15. Miscellaneous

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    Resolution on General Strike at Meeting of the Natioal Coordination Committee of Railwaymen's Struggle on 15 April 1974
    (AIRF, 1974) National Coordination Committee For Railwaymen's Struggle (NCCRS)
    NCCRS resolution on the 1974 Railway Strike explaining the failure of negotiations and the call for strike on the charter of demands adopted earlier at the National convention held on 27 February 1974
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    NERMU Correspondence File
    (AIRF, 1974) North East Railway Mazdoor Union (NERMU); National Coordination Committee For Railwaymen's Struggle (NCCRS); Indian Railways Ticket Checking Staff Association; Railway Worker's Coordination Committee
    Contains 8 letters mostly addressed to the NCCRS. They raise organisational issues of forging a common front of railway workers organisations and the need to work out differences, do away with parallel committees of railway workers; reports of committee meetings and minutes of local meetings etc
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    Resolutions adopted in 1974 by Government and Railwaymen's Trade Unions [Resolutions File NCC - folder 15 AIRF Collections]
    (AIRF, 1974) All India Station Master's Association; National Coordination Body for Railwaymen's Struggle (Bhatinda); C.L.W. Railwaymen's Coordination Committee; All India Railway Stenographers Association (Jhansi Branch); All India Switchmen Cabinmen Levermen Advisory Council (Nagina)
    Text of resolutions adopted by trade unions in the Indian Railways at their local coordinations or category wise regional or national level conventions or meetings. One resolution is from a citizens Convention organised in Cooperation with railwaymens organisations; Resolutions mention to efforts at joint participation of members of national /regional level bodies such as AIFR, AILRSA and others. All resolutions reflect planning underway for the national level indefinite Railway strike that took place in May 1974. Contains also a resolution from the March 1974 National Convention of Central Government Employees Organisations.
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    An Appeal To People
    (AIRF) National Coordination Committee For Railwaymen's Struggle (NCCRS)
    This leaflet by NCCRS explains to the people reasons behind the general strike and attempts to counter government point for view and anti strike propaganda as has appeared in advertisements in newspapers.
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    Notifications and Letters
    (AIRF, 1974) All India Railways Ministerial Staff Association; Indian Railways echnical Supervisors Association; Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh - Himachal Pradesh; Bhartiya Railway Mazdoor Sangh; Government of India
    This file contains notifications dated 1974 and letters from trade unions; one notification by AIRMSA is dated 1969 and refers to its note of dissent regarding Pen Down Strike by the Secretarial Staff. There is an undated note from NCCRS which makes mention of a one and half year long sectional struggle of the railwaymen -- the running staff (motormen, Drivers) that has prepared ground and created confidence for a wider struggle. This file also contains a government document marked 'secret' written by a senior bureaucrat C.V. Narasimhan in the ministry of home affairs (government of India) asking state governments to take preventive action against the imminent threat of the railway strike in May 1974.
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    Letters File (AIRF Archive - Folder 15)
    (AIRF, 1974) Northern Railwaymen's Union; Western Railway Employees Union; All India Guards Council; South Eastern Railway Accounts Sub-head Association; Embassy of Japan; Central Railway O.H.E. Staff Association; Mukherjee, Samar
    Correspondence between railways trade unions shows discussions regarding proposal for strike; tensions among constituents -- notably with loco running staff association; concern about repressive methods by railway management and support for the six-point demands of the NCCRS for railwaymen and support for strike if demands are not accepted; to incorporate Bharatiya Rail Vidyut Karamchari Sangh in the national coordination committee (NCC) ; A handwritten letter indicating that strike notice has been served; A Letter from the Japanese Embassy in Delhi seeking information on the railway strike; A letter from a member of Parliament to the Railway minister regarding the railways withholding subsistence allowance of suspended workers ....
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    Railway Sentinel
    (AIRF, 1974)
    General Strike issue no 2 of a railway workers bulletin from March 10, 1974, focuses on issues raised at the National Convention of Railwaymen held in February 1974
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    Letters and Applications (File No. NCCRS/1/74(ii)/AIRF 160-B)
    (All India Railwaymen's Federation (AIRF), 1974) All India Railwaymen's Federation (AIRF); Purvi Railway Karamchari Sangh; M.T.P. Railways Employees Union; South Eastern Railway Union; All India Railway Junior Supervisors Association; Indian Railway Signal and Telecom Staff Association; United Committee of Railwaymen; All India Station Master' Association
    Scanned file containing letters from NCCRS and all afflilate unions to Railway authorities and copies to state officials dealing with labour matters giving written notice of strike action in the Indian railways on 7 May 1974. The letters accompany a six point charter of demands of workers..
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    Telegram
    (AIRF) North Eastern Railway Mazdoor Union
    Telegram (dated 24/4/1974) from Kanahiya Lal Gupta General Secretary, North Eastern Railway Mazdoor Union to AIRF Delhi saying Strike Notice served to General Manager N.E. Railway, Gorakhpur
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    Scans of Press Statements Regarding General Strike (railways) -1974 (File No. 160-B-IX)
    (AIRF, 1974) AIRF
    Contains, press statements between March-June 1974 (in English and Hindi) by AIRF and the National Coordination Committee for Railwaymen's Struggle (NCCRS), Socialist Party of India, Opposition Parties during the strike and in the post 1974 railway strike situation. The impact on railway workers (facing repression, facing a break in their employment and being treated as new recruits), situation of workers in Prison, reports received by NCCRS from its affiliates and from other unions,