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Item Crisis of Capitalism in India and Wage Freeze: General Report made to the General Council, AITUC, on 22 July 1974(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1974) Dange, Shripad AmritThe report to the AITUC General council includes the following chapters: International developments; Wage Freeze-Bourgeois Logic; Wage Cost and Prices, and the Appendices: Summary of the Economists Scheme to Contain Inflation; General Council Resolution on Wage Freeze Ordinance; If it is not wage freeze, what is it; and Gold and its role today.Item Recession and resistance(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1967) Dange, Shripad AmritThe booklet is the report made by the General Secretary to the General Council of the AITUC about the economic recession and trade union policy and strategy toward it. It includes the chapters: On the present situation and tasks of trade unions; and a list of AITUC general resolutions on: The crisis and resistance; Solidarity with Vietnam; 50th Anniversary of the October revolution; Solidarity with Arab peoples; Labour policy of non-Congress govts.; Solidaritx with Naxalbari and other peasant struggles; Bonuses; and on T.U. unity.Item Report at Coimbatore : 26th Session: January 6-12, 1961 Coimbatore(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1961) Dange, Shripad AmritReport 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.Item The budget & the plan : Capitalist offensive and the people (Speech in parliament)(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1958) Dange, Shripad AmritA speech by Dange, Shripad Amrit to parliament in reaction to the 1958 budget. Arguing that nothing had changed in the budget, and that the most needy were not getting the relief they needed, Dange's speech has the following subchapters: Everything is going up except wages; US aid - no philanthropy; Reason - recession at home; Gives 66 million, reaps 241 million; End of boom in India; Capitalist slogan - Denationalise, Ours - "More nationalisation"; Morality of our bourgeoisie; Dividend hunters, cheif ministers and steel workers; Mobilise LIC funds, company reserves; Stop monopoly growth; Reduce oil prices; Scandal in defence stores purchase; HAL strike - ensure trade union rights; produce more and save more.Item Government labour policy and the bank case(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1954) Dange, Shripad AmritTaken from a speech given by Dange, Shripad Amrit to trade union functionaries, it discusses the resignation of Minister for Labour Giri, which was significant because it brought the government’s labour policy and the bank award to public attention, and reveals the Nehru government’s pro-monopolist policy.Item Capital, Vam and Wages(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1972) Dange, Shripad AmritThe booklet focuses on manufacturing industries, a “small but key sector”. It looks especially at VAM (Value Added by Manufacture), as an ideological concept and weapon for the workers. It includes the following chapters: Overall trend of economic development; Value added and surplus added; Structural changes in productive capital; Manufacturing product; Gross inputs; Wages and earnings; Rate of surplus value; Overall trends in manufacturing industries. Includes charts looking at productivity indicators, and capital and labour productivity.Item Government Document on Industrial Relations(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1973) Dange, Shripad AmritThe booklet outlines the Labour Ministry's Proposals for a comprehensive Industrial Relations Law, comprising the following parts: machinery and procedure for dispute settlement, procedure for strike/lock-out; recognition of trade unions; unfair practices; standing orders; and trade union law. Partially illegible due to scan quality.Item In the rear of the 14th army : Why India is not mobilised(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1944) Dange, Shripad AmritBritish troops in India and holding the Burma front against the Japanese have been suffering badly from disease and poor organization, and have apparently been forgotten. The booklet is a summary of the speech Dange, Shripad Amrit gave to the Trade Union Group of Members of the House of Commons on 5 December 1944 about the situation in India. Under the title “Chaos in India”, it includes the following subchapters: Legacy of the past; Bureaucratic incompetence; Transport; Coal muddle; Famine; Failure to rely on Peoples’ organisations; Industrial workers; Trade Union organization and gains; Rise in cost of living. Depreciation of wages; Attempts at disrupting trade unions, the peasantry, and people’s unity.Item Crisis and Workers : Report to AITUC General Council (Bangalore Session, 14-18 January 1959)(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1959) Dange, Shripad AmritThe report includes: CRISIS AND WORKERS: Recession in Capitalist Countries; Imperialist Methods to Resolve their Crisis; Indian Economy in 1958; Some Peculiarities of our Recession; Foreign Aid—Whose and for What?; The Struggle of Trends and our Approach; The Problem of Closures, Rationalisation and Productivity—Last Year and Now; Recession, Prices and Wages; Some of the Notable Struggles; The Pace of T.U. Unity; Organisation and some other Points. APPENDICES: Report on the Work of the Central Office by K. G. Sriwastava; Coal Belt in 1958—A Review by Kalyan Roy; Struggle Diary—1958; The ‘Conspiracy’ Case in Jamshedpur; On Automatic Looms; ICFTU’S Advice to Isolate AITUC; Attitude of Hind Mazdoor Sabha on T.U. Unity; Grip of Foreign Controlled Companies on India's Import-Export Trade; Working Class Consumer Price Index Number; Strikes and Lockouts; Table Showing Loans Received from Various Sources. RESOLUTIONS on: Condolence Resolutions; Afro-Asian Solidarity; Firings on Workers; Rise in Food Prices; Employees’ State Insurance Scheme; Report of Study Group on Social Security; Subsidised Industrial Housing Scheme; Introduction of Automatic Looms in Textile Industry; Cooperatives; Supreme Court; Central Pay Commission; Wage Boards; Workmen’s Compensation (Amendment) Bill; Section 4A & 4B of Central Government Servants' Conduct Rules; Road Transport Labour Legislation; Verification of Union Membership; Jamshedpur defence & Relief Fund; Anti-AITUC Labour Policies of Bihar, Bombay & Madhya Pradesh Governments; Agricultural Labour Unions; AlTUC Building Fund.Item International Socialist Miscellany 3(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1962) Dange, Shripad Amrit; Adhikari, Gangadhar MThe book has the following chapters: Abstract and socialist humanism; Some trends in modern bourgeois aesthetics; George Santayana and his philosophy of ‘aesthetic sense’; Architecture and technical progress; On the art of the ‘Distractionists’ and Miscellany: Antimatter will supply the Answer; Nerves…of Iron; Machine versus man; A wonder house; and First film for the blind.