Cotton Textiles AITUC [1959-1960]

Abstract

"Correspondence and docs (pamphlets, resolutions, memoranda, etc.) on demands, strike notices, retrenchments, etc. pertaining to cotton textile workers. Includes letters from the Kapra Mazdoor Union to the General Manager of the Delhi Cloth Mills on management's harassment of workers (and of unilateral increase in workloads), letter to the PM and other officials (GoI) from the Commonwealth Textile Labour Union on the closure of the factory and pending problems with workers, an Open letter to Indira Gandhi, President of the All India Congress Committee on behalf of textile workers of Sholapur city on the deteriorated conditions of workers (Oct 1959); Resolutions of the All India Cotton Textile Workers held in Bombay, 16-17 May 1960; Hunger-strike by workers (Beawar), AITUC calls for a national strike in Textile industry on June 14, 1960, report on one-day token strike in Coimbatore district for the implementation of textile wage board recommendations; Efforts to settle the dispute in West Bengal textile industry revived, a strike by 45,000 workers against the non-implementation of wage board decisions; acquisition or requisition of textile mills by the state for a public purpose Gazette Notification from the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry on the appointment of MS Sadasivan (IAS) to take over the management of Mewar Textile Mills Ltd (Bhilwara); Report on the Textile Wage Board (Trade circular to all affiliated unions) Agreement between the Delhi Cloth Mills, Swatantra Bharat Mills, and the Textile Mazdoor Sangh (INTUC) on recommendations of the Central Wage Board for the Cotton Textile Industry, Agreement between the management of Hissar Textile Mills and Hissar Textile Mills Workers Union, etc."