The Working Class

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In This Issue: • Strike in Public Sector on 11 March. Countrywide Demonstrations on 3 March • CITU Condemns LIC Ordinance • CITU Opposes Increase In Rail Tariff • Locomen’s Struggle Withdrawn, But Fighting Spirit Not Quelled • Continuous Strike in Hindustan Cables • Pfizer Workers Force Multinational Company for Settlement • Plight of Woman Construction Workers • Slate Pencil Industry in Mandasaur. For Survival Workers Forced to Choose Work Which Kills • Railway Budget : To Subsidise a Corrupt, Inefficient and Anti-Working Class Bureuacracy • West Bengal Newsletter • For the First Time Pay Scales Recommended for Jute Workers • Indian Seamen Win Their Just Demands • News in Brief • Growing Influence of Lal Jhanda Union in Delhi • Assam CITU Meets • AINEF to Fight Back Wage Freeze Policy