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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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    Sohyo Congress and Japanese Working Class
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1972) All-India Trade Union Congress
    Part One, The 42nd Annual convention of the Sohyo: Toward a militant trade union movement, has the following chapters: Address of the Sohyo president; General Secretary's policy statement; Discussions; Resolutions; Declaration of the convention. Part Two is called Recent dollar question and the attitude of the trade union movement.
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    AITUC - Fifty Years Documents: Volume One
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1970) All-India Trade Union Congress
    The Foundation Thoughts and Forces of the AITUC: Origins of the AITUC
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    Modern Imperialism : An economic and statistical survey
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1971) All-India Trade Union Congress
    The economic and statistical survey was conducted by staff researchers at the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, and the Institute of the International Workers’ movement and was first published in the journal “Peace, Freedom and Socialism”. Chapters include: Concentration of production and capital; Banking capital; Finance capital and the financial oligarchy; Capital export; Uneven development of capitalism; Growing economic role of the state; Imperialism is militarism; The fall of the colonial empires; Imperialism and wage labour.
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    Supreme Court Judgement (Dt. 09.05.1995) Relating to Abolition of contract labour system
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1995) All-India Trade Union Congress
    The government’s Contract Labour Regulation and Abolition Act 1970 has proved incapable of hindering the proliferating privatisation of the Contract Labour system. In this context, the Supreme Court’s 1995 judgement is especially important in fighting the contract labour system, and is reprinted here in full. The case isGujarat Electricity Board, Gujarat v Hind Mazdoor-Sabha & Ors. (Civil Appeal No. 5497 of 1995).
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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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    AITUC General Council Meeting : Information Documents. New Delhi 8, 9 & 10 November 1976
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1974) All-India Trade Union Congress
    The report contains: Update since the 29th session; Coal and the Indian economy; Non-coking coal; Proposals for new coal mines; Bipartite wage negotiations – Steel industry, Bhel, Cement, Electricity, Coal mines, Sugar, Bangalore-based public sector industries, Magnesite mines Salem, Port & dock, L.I.C.; Report on L.I.C. struggle for wages; Struggle, unity and gains in heavy engineering in Jamshedpur, B.H.E.L. and steel industry; Industry Railway Workers’ Federation; List of foreign delegates from AITUC; Letter exchange between All India Railwaymen’s Federation president George Fernandes and AITUC General Secretary Dange, Shripad Amrit; Consumer Price Index numbers; National federations formed.
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    AITUC Special Convention Resolutions and documents. June 1975, Indore
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1975) All-India Trade Union Congress
    Includes three different pamphlets: 1. Resolutions and documents; 2. Papers on Wage Policy and On Bonus, D. A. and Benefits; 3. Papers for Special Convention of All-India Trade Union Congress – In defence of workers’ rights and democracy against imperialism, monopoly capital and right reaction. RESOLUTIONS AND DOCUMENTS: Present situation and tasks; (Khmer Rouge) Liberation of Cambodia; Victory in Vietnam; Middle East; World Congress against fascism; Chile; Wages policy; Practical tasks of the trade unions in defence of the public sector; Pollution and people’s health; Organisation; Questionnaire about trade union organisation. 2. PAPERS: On wage policy, & On bonus, D. A. and benefits. 3. PAPERS: T. U. recognition and workers’ rights; Role of the public sector in national economy and politics, Workers’ participation in management; Pollution and people’s health in conditions of growing industrialisation; Role of multinationals, their threat to our economy and independence; Role of Indian monopoly houses and big landed estates, and the bureaucracy – super profits and prices – corruption and breakdown of healthy norms and morals; Worker-Peasant unity – organisation of agricultural labourers and poor peasantry; Strengthening national independence and national economy and parliamentary democracy; Some problems of trade union organisation.
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    31st Session All-India Trade Union Congress : Reports on Industries. Reports on Condition of Workers in Certain Industries. Visakhapatnam, 26 - 31 October 1980 [Pt 2]
    (All-India Trade Union Congress, 1980) All-India Trade Union Congress
    Includes reports on the following industries: Preface by the AITUC secretary; Welcome address by chairman of the reception committee M. V. Bhadram; AITUC presidents’ inaugural address Dange, Shripad Amrit; condolence resolutions; list of delegations from abroad; Messages received from overseas unions and Indian politicians and supporters; Speeches from fraternal delegates from abroad—World Federation of Trade Union (WFTU) acting general secretary Ibrahim Zakaria; All-Union Central Committee of Trade Unions secretary V. F. Bogatikov; Central Council of Trade Unions of Afghanistan member Fazal Ahmed Chakhansory; Bangladesh Trade Union Kendra vice-president Nur-Ur-Islam; Central Council of Czechoslavak Trade Unions secretary Jirina Vesela; Trade Union of National Salvation of Kampuchea organisation department secretary Chan Vanny; Central Council of Mongolian Trade Unions member G. Gelenkhu; Vietnam Federation of Trade Unions secretariat member Tran Anh Lien; Central Council of Confederation of Trade Unions of Yugoslavia presidium member Janos Sreder; West Germany’s FDGB member Fritz Roesel; Central Council of Hungarian Trade Unions international department head Karoly Szlovatsik; Committee for International Trade Unions Unity in Australia representative Don Henderson. Resolutions on: Disarmament and duty of the working class; Diego Garcia; Iran-Iraq war; Solidarity with Kampuchea, Vietnam and Laos; With the Afghan revolution; Solidarity with the struggle in Southern Africa and Namibia; Repression in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka; Solidarity with working people of Latin America; Solidarity with Palestinian People’s struggle; Solidarity with workers and people of Korea; Solidarity with the workers of Turkey; Bonus; Wages and DA; Industrial relations law; Against anti-democratic ordinances; Trade union unity; Social Security; Right to work and employment; Reduction of working hours; Agricultural workers; Working women; Prices; Minimum wages in scheduled employments; Rectify the consumer price index; Lock-outs and closures; Communal disturbances; North-eastern region; In support of journalists and newspaper employees; Solidarity with the struggle of Life Insurance Corporation and the General Insurance Corporation employees; Repression, Firings and attacks on trade unions; Support to the struggles of the peasantry; Nationalism of industries which have been taken over; Retrenchment of tobacco workers; Nationalisation of tea concerns; Pollution; Vijayanagaer steel plant; Beedi workers and their demands; Sixth (five-year) plan frame; Demands of the railway workers. Appeal to all workers: Forward to end the miseries of capitalist rule. Workers’ pledge on the 60th anniversary of AITUC. Reports of commissions on: Wages, dearness allowance and bonus; Social security; Trade union rights and unity. Lists of elected office bearers, members of the working committee, the general council. Credential committee report: union membership numbers by area and industry.
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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.