Sugar

Abstract

Correspondence and docs are perainng to sugar workers across India. Includes letter from AITUC to all affiliated unions in the sugar industry on Oral Evidence to be tendered before the Central wage Board for Sugar Industry, Letter to Prime Minister of India from HMS on closure of two sugar mills, Letter to the Labour Commissioner from the Visakhapatnam Sugars and Refienery Workers' Union on payment of bonus and other pending issues, pamphlet calling for strike by Sugar mill workers, Kanpur Trade Unions Joint Council of Action on hunger strike by Kanpur sugar workers; Circular notice on General Council meeting, Circular from General Secretary United Chini Mill Mazdoor Federation to the Presidents and Secretaries of Sugar Labour Unions in India on various demands (wage increase, by 25%, standardisation of grades, provident fund, workers' participation in management etc.); Notice of Hunger Strike by workers of the Kesar Sugar Works Ltd. (Baheri), Docs from the Central Wage Board for Sugar Industry (Union Ministry of labour and Employment); Booklets: 'The case of Sugar' by Hans Raj Wadhwan, published by Muzzafarnagar Sugar Merchants Association and 'Save Khandsari A National Cottage Industry' by Bishan Chandra Seth.