Abstract:
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.
