Textile Mill Workers Union [1953-1959]

Abstract

Various letters and docs pertaining to textile workers. Includes Mill Kamgar Union, Bhavnagar letter on closure and unemployment of workers to various govt officials (State of Bombay); letter from Kapda Mazdoor Ekta Union on closure of the Mills, victimisation of hundreds of workers by management of DCM, physical assault on workers etc.; Letter to the Union Minister for Labour and Employement on hunger strike against Kanpur mill closures and clearance of dues to workers; Letters of Delhi Cloth Mills, textile Engineering Committee, Bombay and AITUC regarding Silk industry in Punjab, exemptions in excise duty on art silk and woolen fabrics; Memo by BN Mukherjee, President Girni Kamgar Union to the Central Wage Board Cotton Textile Industry; Questions in Lok Sabha by MPs on Textiles Issues; Letters on implementation of code of discipline and honouring of agreements in various mills (in Hissar, Calcutta, Rajasthan etc.); Memorandum of Settlement between the Management of Delhi Cloth Mills and Swatentra Bharat Mills and their workers represented by Kapra Mazdoor Ekta Union; Demands of the Bhawani cotton Mills workers Union etc.