Interview of Umraomal Purohit, trade union leader. He was from a family of police personnel and came into contact with trade union movement through unionism in Indian Railways. Worked in Railways in various capacities, and ...
Interview and profile of Satyanand Rao, General Secretary, Shipyard Workers Union. Born in 1953, his father was a worker in Vizag port. Got trained in ITI and joined the shipyard as a technician in 1975. During student ...
Interview of Ved Mitter Vikh, leader, Bhartiya Railway Mazdoor Sangh, associated with BMS. His family came to India during Partition and has been associated with the RSS.
Interview of Ved Prakash Kohli, a partition returnee RSS member from his early days. Associated with Stenographers' Association, affiliated to BMS. Was skeptical of the 1974 railway strike, though he did join in when other ...
Interview of Velanki Subha Rao, veteran communist and trade union leader. Originally from Andhra, he came into contact with radical politics in Benaras, when he and many went there for studies. Came into communist movement ...
Interview of Vijay Kumar. Participated in the Anti-Simon Commission struggle as a child. Organised paper, sugar, textile, railways and other workers from the pre-independence days. Came to communist movement through student ...
Interview of Vijay Mehta, veteran union leader. Began union work in early 1950s in the railways. Worked in and organised Gumashtas or shop assistant unions in early 1960s, especially on the question of work hours. Also ...
Profile of Vinoy Lahiri, founder of CPI and AITUC in Meghalaya. Born in 1924, he belonged to an elite landed family. But his family members were nationalists and he joined the Quit India movement as a volunteer of the ...
Interview of Vishwanath Mathur, veteran freedom fighter from Gaya. Initially deeply inspired by Gandhi and later joined the socialists and then the communists. Organised cement, paper, sugar workers from the pre-independence ...
Interview of Y.D. Sharma, founder member of Delhi AITUC and Delhi CPI. Born in Haryana, he joined the communist party in 1939. He began from student politics and currently leads All India Petroleum Workers' Federation, ...
Letters addressed to the Mysore State Committee of the CPI and Karnataka Party Secretary of CPI; self-critical reports on trade unions and the district-wise labour situation in Karnataka by the Communist party members.
Karnataka state CPI reports related to its work on various mass fronts in the state as well as different districts; Report on the whole-timers in Karnataka; Correspondence and self-critical reports related to their functioning ...
Letter from Member of Mysore Legislative Assembly to KG Sriwastava regarding Council elections and TU Conference, dated 21 April 1962. Letter from KG Sriwastava to Com Narasimhan, dated 3 May 1962. Letter from KPTUC to KG ...
Memo with Demands to Chief Minister of Mysore from Radio Electrical Manufacturing Co. (REMCO) Employees Association victimization following 1965 strike. Letter by B.V. Kakkilaya, Bangalore on Willam's support to Remco ...
AITUC Working Committee meeting notes, Correspondence among Punjab and Himachal Trade Union Congress with AITUC and State Govt. & Labour Minister, wage board recommendation, Pandoh dam.
Correspondence involving K.G. Shrivastava, M.K. Pandhe, and Sarvajit Singh noted the growth of the trade union movement and the need to deploy more caders at the trade union front.
Papers related to the Gujarat State Bidi workers' conference (1963); Documents related to the Jamnagar trade union council, Shivraj mine workers' union; Papers related to the Rubber workers' strike.
Papers related to the dispute in Cochin docks; Convention of CPI Trade union activists in Kerala; papers related to strike in Traveneon Rayons. Letters addressed to P.D. Gandhi and comrade Trivedi.