Labour Movement in India 1931-1937 Volume-13

	PART III
	STRIKES IN SPECIFIC CITIES	371 - 680
	Introduction	371
	AHMEDABAD
1.	Labour Struggle During Depression to Counter Unfair Management Practices	373
2.	Successfully Protest Re-refusal to Maternity Benefits. Men Lose out in Other Strikes	374
3.	Worker Strike, Employers in a Winning Spree	376
4.	Employers Hard Hitting Tactics Succeed	377
5.	Unions Intervention Pays Off	377
6.	Employers Succeed Again	377
7.	The Mean Tactics of Rajpur Mills. Union Led Workers Successful in their Struggle	378
8.	Workers Struggle Against Unfair Labour Practices	379
9.	Agent of Gordan Mills had Dismissed the Striking Workers	380
10.	Once Again Labour Succeeds when its Union Intervenes	380
11.	Economic Depression and the Workers Lose Out in the Struggle	380
12.	Hard Days, Workers Struggle but Management Continues to Dismiss Workers	381
13.	Depression Weakness the Bargaining Power	382
14.	Intensity of Exploitation Increases due to Depression	383
15.	Power of Workers Union Nullified by Economic Depression	383
16.	Labour is Successful when the Union Leads	384
17.	Labour Struggle in Vain when its Ranks are Broken	384
18.	Workers Persistence Pays Off	384
19.	Depression Lowers the Bargaining Power of Labour	385
20.	Depression an Opportunity for Employers to Succeed	386
21.	Employers Use Depression to Exploit and Dismiss Labour	387
22.	Depression and Accumulated Stoke Make Workers Struggle Difficult	387
23.	Struggle Galore - Result Uneven	388
24.	Confidential Police Report: On Police Suspicion of Links between Labour and Nation Movement	390
25.	Workers Put Up Staff Resistance to Wage Cuts	392
26.	Tide Turning, Workers Struggle Yield Positive Results	393
27.	Struggle Largely on the Question of Wages	396
28.	Struggle Continue, Results Uneven	399
29.	Result of the Struggle Continue to be Uneven	399
30.	Labours Successful Struggle Against Unfair Management Practices	400
31.	Workers Continue to Struggle Against Mills Unfair Practices	401
32.	The Employers Continue to have an Edge Over Striking Workers	402
33.	Labour Continue to Struggle	403
34.	Managements Unfair Practices, More Disputes, More Strikes	404
35.	Ahmedabad Textile Labour Union Leads A Prolonged Struggle	405
36.	Wage cuts - The Year Begins with Prolonged Struggle in Several Mills. Congress Socialists Party Rejects Delhi Agreement	405
37.	Contradiction between Ahmedabad Labour Union and Congress Socialists	407
38.	Workers Persist with their Demands and Make Headway	408
39.	Workers Hold Out and Succeed	408
40.	Easily Available Labour a Bane to a Working Class Movement	409
41.	Contradictions between the Union and the Workers	409
42.	Another Case of a Worker's Loyalty to a Jobber	410
43.	Worker Succeed in their Demand for Better Quality Raw Material and Shuttle	410
44.	Prolonged Struggle in Three Mills	410
45.	Workers Struggle but Employers Win	411
46.	Employer Resorts to Wage Cuts	411
47.	Does TLA Techniques Strengthen the Textile Workers?	412
48.	Result of TLA Intervention	412
49.	Management Gets the Better of the Protesting Workers by Engaging New Hands	413
50.	Long Drawn Struggle of the Workers Continue	415
51.	Protests Against Wage Cuts during the Period of Economic Recovery	416
52.	Mills Works by Replacement of Striking Workers with New Hands	416
53.	TLA for Whom?	417
54.	Management Resorts to Unfair Labour Practices by Engaging New Hands to Break Strikes	418
55.	Management Wins. Its Techniques is to Engage New Hands to Replace Striking Workers	418
56.	Strikers Seek Intervention Through Court for Payment of Outstanding Wages	419
57.	Workers Holdout Against Management Techniques	419
58.	Strikes Continue in Ahmedabad	420
59.	Why Strikes for Wages in 1937	420
60.	High Handed Behaviour of the Management to Break the Working Class	420
61.	The Strike is on since March 1937	421
62.	What is TLA's Strategy?	421
63.	Mill Kamdars Unions Action Puts TLA on the Defensive	421
	AMALNER
64.	Workers Rank Broken the Employer Benefits	424
65.	Workers Fight the Manace of Employer - Police Nexus	424
66.	Millowners Plays Trick on the Wage Labour in Barsi	424
67.	Workers Resist Wage Reduction	425
68.	Barsi Textile Labour continue to Struggle against Wage Cuts	425
69.	Depression Makes it Difficult for the Workers to Persist in their Struggle	425
70.	Depression Makes it Hard to Fight Even for Once Basic Right	425
71.	Employer Use Unfair Means to Exploit Workers. Commissioner of Labour Intervenes for a Settlement	426

	BOMBAY AND BOMBAY CITY
72.	Employers Take Advantage of Depression to Win	427
73.	Crescent Mill Workers' Struggle Dates Back to January	428
74.	Millowners Continue to Exploit Labour	428
75.	Madhowji Dharamsi Workers' Struggle Braverly Despite Depression	428
76.	Madhowji Dharamsi Workers and Khatau Manakji Mills Workers Succeed	429
77.	Bombay Kamgar Union Strengthen the Workers	431
78.	Workers on Prolonged Strikes to Get Back their Rights	433
79.	Workers Make Headway in their Struggle	436
80.	Strike, Compromise and Sometimes Even Withdrawal is a Strategy in Workers Struggle	438
81.	Deep Depression - Workers Give in to Managements Demand	439
82.	Workers Struggles Sometimes Successful and Sometimes Not	440
83.	Progress of Individual Disputes is Uneven	441
84.	Police Involved in Labour - Management Struggles	444
85.	Two Disputes in June - One Ended in Favour of the Employers and the other Compromise	448
86.	Coolies of Mulji jetha, Mangaldas and Lakhmidas, Coolies Ask for a Fair Deal	449
87.	Result of Struggles, Inconclusive	450
88.	Workers Struggle, Result Uneven	451
89.	Economic Depression and the Struggle are Long Drawn	453
90.	Oppression Increases, Six Strikes in the Month of November	454
91.	Innovative Techniques of Jamshed Manufacturing Mill Yield Result for Workers	457
92.	Woman to the Fore in the Struggles	459
93.	Labour Leaders continue to Distribute Grams to Striking Workers	460
94.	Employers Resists Workers Demands for Small Raise in Wages	460
95.	Exploitation Increases with Deep Economic Depression	462
96.	Results of Struggle Uneven	463
97.	Workers Struggle Against Wage Cuts	465
98.	Struggle for Payment of Wages on Time	466
99.	Workers Become Victims of Depression	467
100.	Mill Management Use Various Devices to Save on Wage Bill and the Workers Strike	468
101.	Unemployment and Easy Availability of Work Force Makes Workers Struggles Difficult to Sustain	469
102.	Depression the Biggest Obstacle in the Workers Struggles	470
103.	Economic Hardship Compel Workers to Concede Pay Cuts, but not in the Moon Mill nor in the Pralhad Mill	471
104.	Hard Days - Workers Hold Out and Disputes End in Compromise if not Total Success	472
105.	Workers Hold Out to Employers Pressures - Strike are Long Drawn	474
106.	Depression is a Draw-back Workers Struggle Often Ended in Compromise	475
107.	14 Leaders of the Joint Strike Committee Arrested under Section 3 of the Bombay Special Emergency Act, But the Strike Continue	477
108.	Counter Propaganda by Millowners' Association, Handbills Air-dropped, State Machinery Used to Intimidate Workers	479
109.	Hard Days - the Workers Hold Out for Over Three Months Before Giving in	482
110.	Strike in a Handloom Factory	483
111.	The Handloom Workers Succeed in their Struggle	483
112.	Workers Struggle and Meet with Reverses Whom do the Labour Officers Represent	484
113.	GIP Railway Workers Exploited	485
114.	Coolies is Sunderdas Saw Mills Succeed in Getting their Pay Cuts Restored	486
115.	Cause of Strike: Touch of the European Manager Polluted their Food. Consequence: the Employers Win	486
116.	Lack of Orders. The Reason why the Press Management Wins	487
117.	Betrayal by a Single Striker Breaks a Strike	489
118.	A Sympathetic Labour Commissioner Plays a Positive Role in Resolving a Strike	489
119.	Hindustan Mills Resorts to New Exploitative Techniques in Production	490
120.	GIP Railway Resorts to Intense Exploitation of Labour Through its Contractors	490
121.	Exploitation Through Increased Workload, New Method of Saving on Wage Bill	492
122.	Workers Solidarity Yields Good Results	493
123.	With Economic Recovery Workers Bargaining Power Increased	494
124.	Persistence and Workers Struggle Ended Successfully	494
125.	Conciliator can only Bring About a Compromise	495
126.	Undecided Workers Weaken the Efforts of the Striking Workers	496
127.	Exploitation through Lengthening of the Working Hours	496
128.	And the Employers has his Way	496
129.	Again Strikes are Getting to be Long Drawn	496
130.	Labour Leaders Strengthen the Workers	497
131.	Struggles by and Large Stretch into the Following Month	499
132.	The Struggles Continue into November and Remain Unresolved	500
133.	The Long Drawn Struggle Pays of for Workers in the Carpet Industry	501
134.	Carpet Weavers Successfully Fight for Restoration of their Wages	502
135.	Labour Struggle in Early 1937 Spill Over into the Next Few Months	502
136.	Press Workers Strike Inconclusive as the Press was Taken Position by the Mortgage	503
137.	The Lessees Takeover Pralhad Mills. A Blow for the Workers	503
138.	Workers Continue to Struggle for their Rights	504
139.	Employer Uses New Technique to Increase Work Load - Workers Protest Deal Ends in a Compromise	505
140.	Employers Recruit New Hands to Break the Strike	505
141.	Workers Firm and United Stand Pays Off	506
142.	Manipulation of Wages Results in a Strike	506
143.	Number of Disputes on the Increase. Workers Struggle for their Rights	510
144.	Labour and Peasant Movements Mass Demands Day in Bombay	515
145.	Labour and Peasant Movement - Standard Mill Strikers March on Secretariat	516
146.	Bombay Docks in Ferment	516
147.	Bombay Mill Strike, 1934, Constitution of the Joint Strike Committee	517
148.	General Strike Demands Put Forth	522

	BOMBAY MILL STRIKE, 1934
149.	Call for a General Strike	525
150.	30,000 Workers Join Strike: Leaders Claim That Response has been Very Good	527
151.	Government is Responsible for not Safeguarding the Wages of the Workers	528
152.	Have the Consequences of Textile Industries Anti Diluvian System to be Borne Exclusively by the Labour?	530
153.	Government Bias is for the Owners. It Unleaches Police Force Against Labour	531
154.	Millowners' Attitude and their use of Police is not Conducive to Welfare	531
155.	Governments Indifference to Textile Industry is Leading to its Draft Towards Ruin	532
156.	Mathrubhumi Critical of Millowners Attitude and its Apparent Neutrality to Government	532
157.	Another Newspaper Complains that the Government is Lending to Support only to Capitalist	533
158.	Government Abdicates its Responsibility when the Workers Wages are Being Slashed	533
159.	'Labour will Triumph if the Government is Neutral' Says a Madras Newspaper	534
160.	Labours' Demands Justified. Government under Illusion	535
161.	Increase of Work and Decrease in Wages is the Cause of the Strike	536
162.	Strike is a Means of Taming the Capitalist in the West	536
163.	It Behoves on the Authorities to Protect the Interst of the Workers	537
164.	Is Government's Duty only to Open Fire on Workers on is it to Redress their Grievance too	537
165.	Government Concern is not to Remove Workers Misery but only Fire at them!	538
166.	Labourers are Firm that the Machinations of the Capitalists and the Fuss made by the Government will be of no Avail	538
167.	Inspector of Police vs Trade Union Leaders in the Magistrates Court Bombay	539

	BOMBAY SUBURBAN DISTRICT - AMBERNATH
168.	Dharamsi Morarji Workers on Strike on the Eighth Day	563
169.	WIMCO Workers Strike Against the New System of Wages. They Choose Parulekar as their Leader	563
170.	WIMCO Workers Hold Out and Make Some Gains	565
171.	WIMCO Management Acts Tough	568
172.	Dharamsi Morarji Strike End in a Compromise	569
173.	A Swedish Firm Quibbles over Wages of 1/4 Pies	569
174.	WIMCO Workers Struggle Continues	570
175.	WIMCO Workers Struggle Remains Unresolved	571
176.	It is Difficult to Hold Out in the Fifth Month of Strike, But WIMCO Workers Do	571
177.	Low Wages Reduce the Sustaining Power of Workers. But WIMCO Workers Continue to Struggle	572

	BOMBAY SUBURBAN DISTRICTS
178.	Tabacco Company Exploits by Increasing Working Hours - Workers Protest	572
179.	Khedivial Tabacco Company Workers in Borivli also on Strike	572
180.	Workers Succeed in Getting the Exploitative Manager Dismissed	573
181.	Disaffection Created Among the Leather Workers	573
182.	Unreasonable Bail has Penalized Workers to Remain in Police Custody	575
183.	Parulekar Demands Enquiry into Police Firing	576
184.	Police, the Strong Arm of the State Forgets that it is the Congress and not the British who are in Power	577
185.	Lathi and Rifle are Concomitant to Even the Smallest Industrial Dispute	577
186.	Lack of Employment Opportunities Create Frequent Fights Among Dharavi Workers Prosecution Story in Riot Case	577
187.	Home Department Tries to Show the Congress Ministry is both Ruthless and Efficient	579
188.	Dharavi Rioting Case: Plea for Joint Trial	581
189.	Dharavi Rioting Case: Charges Framed	581
190.	Alleged Rioting At Dharavi: Police Evidence	582
191.	Police Cross Questioned - Trapped on the Question of Stoning	582
192.	Dharavi Rioting Case: Fired in Self-Defence - Note Charge in the Stand	583
193.	Dharavi Rioting Case: 24 Persons Convicted	584

	JOGESHWARI
194.	Workers Wages Reduced, Struggle Becomes Difficult During Economic Depression	584
195.	Workers Right to Strike Flouted	585
196.	Economic Depression an Opportunity for Management to Reduce Wages of Poorly Paid Workers	585
197.	Workers Ask for a Better Deal for New Designs	585
198.	Bargaining Power of Workers Brought Down by Depression	586
199.	Why Cut Wages if Machinery Breaks Down or Factory is Closed for Celebration of Coronation?	586
200.	Workers to Forego Wages Again for 5 Days	586
201.	Workers Demand Higher Wages for More Complex Work	587

	KURLA
202.	Swadeshi Mill Workers Gear up for a Long Struggle	587
203.	Management Defend Jobber Who Act as Their Agents	588
204.	Employer Split the Ranks of the Workers by Providing Police Protection to the Informers	591
205.	The Strike Continue into the Fifth Month	593
206.	The Long-Drawn Struggle Ends in a Compromise	594
207.	Police Report on Kurla Strike	595
208.	Railway Workers Dispute	596
209.	Match Box Workers' Pay Reduced, It's Difficult to Hold Out Against this New Exploitation	596
210.	Workers Suspicious of Confounding Bonus with Wages	597
211.	The Parliamentary Gulzarilal Nanda Intervenes on behalf of Strikers	597
212.	Workers Struggle under the Leadership of Lal Bavta is Successful	598
213.	Further Struggle in Swadeshi Mill	599
214.	Swadeshi Mill Strike end in a Compromise	600
	GHATKOPAR
215.	Workers Resist Wage Cuts after Economic Recovery	600
216.	Workers Continue their Struggle for Wage Revision	600
217.	The Long Drawn Struggle Ends Fruitfully	601

	MAROL (BOMBAY SUBURBAN DISTRICT)
218.	Workers Unity. They Demand Reinstatement of their Dismissed Colleagues	601
219.	The Strike Ended. The Dismissed Workers Chose to go back to their Villages	601
220.	Struggle in Nawaz Glass Workers Continue	602
221.	Workers of Nawaz Glass Works Refuse to Give in	602
222.	Nawaz Glass Works Goes Bankrupt	602
	MULUND (THANA DISTRICT)
223.	Workers Support their Errant Manager	603
224.	Workers Struggle to Claim Wage Arrears	603
225.	Match Factory Workers Successful in their Demand for Outstanding Wages	603
	THANA
226.	Management Forces Workers to Accept Wage Cuts	604
227.	A Strike Ends in Favour of Employers when Workers Break Rank	605
228.	Strikers Find it Difficult to Hold on during Deep Depression	605
229.	Managements Manipulative Technique to Save the Wage Bill	605
230.	Thane Match Workers Struggle for Restoration of Old Wage Rates	606
231.	The Strike Breaks when a Section of Thana Match Factory Workers rejoined Work	606
232.	Thane Match Factory Owners Utilize Labour Office to Consolidate their Position on Wage Reduction	606
233.	Doffer Boys at Raymond Mills Demand Restoration of Old Wage Rates	608
234.	The Doffer Boys at Raymond Hold Out	608
235.	Raymond's Plays Games with Striking Workers and they are Trapped	608
236.	Other Workers of Raymonds Hold Out and Succeed	609
	BHUSAVAL
237.	Railway Labour Strikes for Restoration of Wages	609
	BROACH
238.	Vasant Mill Workers Penalized for Organizing Workers Union	609
239.	Selective Application of Wage-Cut Results in a Strike in Broach	610
240.	Broach Mill Fines: Weavers for Even Minor Damage to the Cloth on the Loom	610
241.	Broach Mill Resorts to Super Exploitation: One Operative to Mind Two Mills Results in a Strike	610
242.	Vasant Mill Brings in Workers from Bombay to Break the Strike in Broach	611
243.	The Tide Turning in Favour of Workers in Broach	612
244.	Broach Mill Workers in Protest Against Fines and Wages. Management Concedes and Strike Ends in Compromise	612
245.	The Owners Get the Better of the Striking Workers	613
246.	Vasant Mill Punishes the Strikers by Engaging New Men in Their Place	613
247.	Workers Protest Against the Demands Made by the New Spinning Master	613
248.	Bhangis of Broach Municipality who Defined their Work Rules are Penalized	614
249.	The Bhangis Dispute Referred for Arbitration	615
250.	The Bhangis Unity and their Struggle Ends with Success	616
251.	The Management Cuts Wages and Replaces Striking Workers with New Hands	617
252.	Bhangis of Broach City Demand Dismissal of their Trecherous Muccadam	617
	CALCUTTA MILL STRIKES
253.	Yule Group's Restrictive Scheme Results in Massive Unemployment	621
254.	Further Secret Information on Dock Workers on Strike (Secy. & Deptt.)	623
255.	Bengal Jute Worker Heading for a General Strike (A Trade Unionist)	624
256.	In the Bengal Jute Workers' Strike Governments Interference is Increasing	626
257.	Labour and Peasant Movement: The Calcutta Jute Workers' Strike	626
258.	Jute Mill Workers Strike Again	627
259.	Labour and Peasant Movement: Unrest Amongst the Jute Workers of Calcutta	627
260.	Calcutta Workers' Rally - Condemns Labour Minister's Attempt to Create a Rival Union	628
261.	Labour and Peasant Movement: Calcutta Elected Workers' Threaten Strike	629
262.	A Massive Workers Rally at Calcutta	629
263.	Victoria Mills Strike at Cawnpore - Police Repression	630
264.	Cownpore Unrest and Labour Leaders' Appeal	630
265.	Labour and Peasant Movement: The Cawnpore Strike and State Brutality	631
266.	The Cawnpore Strike: Congress Ministry also uses Repression State Power. Why?	631
267.	Stay-In-Strike Cawnpore	632
268.	Cawnpore Leaders Condemn Millowners	632
	CHALISGAON
269.	In Chalisgoan Workers Protest at Wage Cuts	633
270.	Shri Laxmi Narayan Mill Involved in a Long Drawn Strike	633
271.	Negotiation Begin in the Shri Laxmi Narayan Mill Protests	634
272.	Shri Laxmi Narayan Mill Struggle ends Successfully	634
	DHULIA
273.	Sweepers in Dhulia Protest at the Sanitary Sub-Inspector's Behaviour	634
274.	Dhulia Sweepers Struggles end Successfully	635
275.	Pratap Mill Workers of Dhulia turn Militant	635
276.	Depression - Counter Pressure by the Management on Workers	635
277.	Government Concerned with Increasing Pace of the Labour Movement	636
278.	Depression and the Bargaining Power of the Workers Get Reduced	637
279.	Situation Bocomes Difficult for the Workers	637
280.	New Pratap Mill Workers unable to Sustain their Struggle	638
281.	BB&CI Railway Strike end in a Compromise	638
	GOKAK FALLS (BELGAUM DISTRICT)
282.	Gokak Mill Workers Strike and Reach an Agreement with the Management	639
	JAMSHEDPUR
283.	Labour and Peasant Movement: Strike at Jamshedpur 'Contract' and 'Piece System' Drastically reduce Workers Take Home Wages	640
	KARACHI
284.	Congress Unable to Help Workers in Distress	641
285.	Tindals Protest against Unfair Responsibility Thrust on Them	641
286.	Workers Strike in Sympathy for a Suspended Co-worker	641
	JALGAON
287.	Dispute in the District Magistrate Court	642
288.	Kulti Iron Strike ends Favourably for Workers	642
	GOKAK
289.	Formation of a Union Strengthens the Workers of Gokak Mills	643
290.	Gokak Mill Workers Undaunted by Management Tactics of Recruiting New Hands	644
291.	Striking Workers Post Pickets at the Gokak Mills	644
292.	Counter Propaganda Procession by Gokak Management to Wean Worker Away from their Union	644
293.	The Long Drawn Gokak Strike ends in a Compromise	645
294.	Reports of Betrayal by the Gokak Millowners	645
295.	Further Reports on Trechery by Gokak Mills Management	646
296.	Gokak Management Resentful that the Congress Government in Power Interceded on Behalf of Workers	646
	HUBLI
297.	M. & S.M. Railway Workers Debate on the Question of a General Strike	647
298.	Discharge of and Infliction of Fines on Women Workers Provokes 2,200 Workers of Bharat Mills	648
299.	The Dispute Remains Unresolved	648
300.	Bharat Mill Workers Succeed in their Struggle	649
301.	V.V. Giri Exhorts Railway Workers to Continue their Struggle	649
302.	Railway Workers Suffer a Set-back	650
303.	From the Lobour Front: Wage-Cuts at Indore	651
	JALGAON
304.	Khandesh Mill Workers Find it Difficult to Hold on to their Demands	651
305.	The Tough new Proprietors of Gendalal Mills Cut 'Dear Food' Allowance	651
306.	Gendalal Mills Reluctance to Pay Wages on Time Results in a Strike	652
307.	A Strike Relief Committee Formed to Assist the Striking Workers of Gendalal Mills	652
308.	Congress Government asks Lobour Commissioner to Bring about an Amicable Settlement	653
	KARACHI
309.	Brice and Company Workers Succeed in their Struggle	654
310.	Labour Leader Assists the Workers to Struggle Successfully	655
311.	Railway Workers Continue to Struggle	655
312.	The Railway Dispute Ends in Favour of its Management	655
313.	Negotiations at the Karachi Dock Workers' Strike Called Off Temporarily	656
314.	Government's Indifference - The Nellimarla Jute Mills Workmen's Strike	656
	MALWAN (RATNAGIRI DISTRICT)
315.	Women Pickets at a Cashewnut Factory Arrested	656
316.	Cashewnut Factory Workers Strike Ends in a Compromise	657
	NADIAD
317.	Workers Unity Results in a Sympathetic Strike	659
318.	Majur Mahajan Sangh Resorts to Picketing	659
319.	The New Shorrock Mill Strike Continues	660
320.	No end in Sight for the Shorrock Mill Struggle	660
321.	Shorrock Mill Dispute Continues	661
322.	Labour Finds it Difficult to Hold Out during the Period of Economic Recession	661
	NASIK
323.	Bidis Workers Successful Strike against Reduction of Wages	661
324.	Strike in Sutlej Mill	662
	POONA
325.	A Jobber Dismissed - Workers Protest Takes the Form of a Strike	662
326.	Workers Trickle Back to the Mills and the Strike end in Favour of the Employer	662
327.	The Management's Version of the Strike	663
328.	Raja Bahadur Mill Resorts to Wage Cuts and it also Recruits new Labour	663
329.	Timber Merchants Resort to Wage Cuts, Workers Protest	663
330.	Head Jobber Dismissed and Workers Strike in Sympathy	664
331.	Stay-in Strike at Rajnandgaon	664
332.	Workers Hold Out Stubbornly	665
	SHOLAPUR
333.	General Strike in Sholapur	665
334.	Management Sows Seeds of Disunity among the Workers at the General Strike	666
335.	Workers React to Wage Cuts. Section 144 Promulgated	667
336.	Government Alert of Possible Strike in Sholapur - Suspects Activists as Communists. Indentured Labour Supplied by Missioneries Work in the Mills	667
337.	Section 42 Declared in Sholapur	668
338.	Progress of Strike Hampered by Promulgation of Section 144	669
339.	Female Workers Denied Bonus	670
340.	Sholapur Workers Unable to Sustain their Strike	670
	AKLUJ (SHOLAPUR DISTRICT)
341.	Mamlatdar's Successful Intervention on Behalf of the Workers	670
342.	Bidi Workers Strike against Exploitative Practices	671
343.	Assistant Commissioner of Labour's Intervention in the Bidi Worker's Struggle ends in a Compromise	671
	SURAT
344.	Employers Use Exploitative Tactics	672
345.	Millowners Use Intimidating Notices to Compel Workers to Return to Work	673
346.	Management Cheats by Introducing Relay System which Cuts into Recess Period. Protest Nullified by Threats to Engage New Hands	673
	VIRAMGAUM
347.	Workers' Unity Pays Off	674
348.	Chandrodaya Workers Struggle for Justice	674
349.	Chandrodaya Workers Reinstated	675
350.	Jayanti Mill Workers Revolt against the High Handedness of the Jobber	675
351.	Jayanti Mill Strike Successful	675
352.	The Chandrodaya Millowners Get the Better of their Workers	675
353.	Viramgaum Mill Workers Struggle on	676
354.	Kasturbhai Lalbhai as an Arbitrator - A 'Sarpanch' in Viramgaum Mill Dispute?	676
355.	Is Kasturbhai the Director of both Mills a Right Choice for a Sarpanch?	676
356.	Working Class Unity Pays Off	677
357.	Chandrodaya Mill Workers Continue to Struggle	677
358.	Chandrodaya Management Engage New Hands and Dismiss the Striking Workers	678
359.	Chandrodaya in Dispute Again	678
360.	Cooperation and Unity Results in Success for the Chandrodaya Mill Workers	678
361.	Workers in Chandrodaya and Jayanti Mills were Again on Strike	679
362.	Workers of Jayanti Mill continue to Struggle	679
363.	The Struggle in Jayanti Mills continues	679
364.	Jayanti Mill Workers Still on Strike