Coal Mines [1958-1959]

Abstract

Correspondence and docs pertaining to mine workers, their demands, and struggles. Issues include demand for nationalising mines, illegal and wrongful dismissal of workers by Reliance Firebrick and Pottery Co Ltd, demand for the reinstatement of 40 workers of East Jemehari Colliery, Strike in Baraiburu mines, retrenchment of labourers of Bhurkunda Colliery, death of 8 workers at Siddimella, Delomite-cum-soapstone quarry, demand by the underground workers of mines for rice at a rate of 4 seers to all workers, an extension of provident fund and profit sharing bonus; Letter to the Prime Minister (GoI) on the retrenchment of female workers in the NCDC collieries; Pamphlet on management's autocracy in he Shahwallace Company; Questions raised in the Lok Sabha on the payment of compensation to retrenched workers, etc.