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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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    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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    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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    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.
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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.