All-India Trade Union Congress: Report Twenty-Second Session: Calcutta, 1947

Abstract

Includes proceedings. GENERAL SECRETARY’S REPORT: The Working Committee; General Council; Standing Credentials committee; Office bearers’ tours; Provincial and regional conferences and councils; Industrial conferences; head office; Tripartite deliberations; Five year labour plan; AITUC representatives on government committees; ILO; World Federation of trade unions; Political situation; Working class situation; Labour legislation; AITUC’s sympathies with freedom struggles; President’s statements; Finances. Appendices: Working committee statement on unemployment, cuts in dearness allowance and wages; Industrial disputes legislation; Communal riots; Trade union liberties; Police firing; Housing for industrial workers; Accounts. REOLUTIONS: AITUC’s main objective; Nationalisation of industries; Industrial workers’ wages and housing; Cloth shortage; Unemployment; Basic Demands Day; Communal riots; Trade union liberties and riots; Repression in British India; Repressive legislation; Kisan struggles; Government’s five-year labour programme; Industrial disputes legislation bill; Workmen’s State Insurance bill; Workmen’s Compensation Act; Holidays with pay; Employment exchanges; Factories Act; Labour policy; Bombay Industrial Relations bill; Industrial Relations Bill of C.P. and Berar; Police firing in Calcutta; Strikes in Calcutta; UP (Uttar Pradesh) labour enquiry committee; Working class struggles in states; Railwaymen; Cotton textile workers; Jute textile workers; Coal miners; Plantation workers; Indian seamen; Motor transport workers; Printing press workers; Glass industry workers; Petroleum workers; Municipal workers; Post and telegraph workers; Clerical and administrative workers; Primary school teachers; Untouchable workers. Affiliated unions; General council members; Provincial committees; Delegates; Constitution.