Crisis and Workers : Report to AITUC General Council (Bangalore Session, 14-18 January 1959)

Abstract

The 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.