12-12-12
STRIKE! STRIKE!! STRIKE !!!
12TH DECEMBER 2012 - ALL INDIA CENTRAL
GOVT. EMPLOYEES STRIKE
13 lakhs
Employees unitedly demand the Central Government to
CHANGE THE POLICIES
“WORKERS ARE NOT BEGGARS”
“ORGANISE”
“Organise
if you want real living wages,
Organise if you want to have your working
hours reduced,
Organise if you desire better treatment from
you superior officers,
Organise if you want that the authorities
should consult and consider your
opinion in all administrative
measures affecting you”.
- Babu Tarapada Mukherjee, 1921 Lahore Speech
“We
must therefore, determine to have our pay increased and working hours reduced.
We must fight and fight and fight strenuously to secure what alone can make
life worth living. We must make up our minds whether we shall continue to live
as human cattle or “take up arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing, end
them”.
- Babu Tarapa Mukherjee, 1921 Lahore Speech
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU ON 1946 P&T
STRIKE
“We
have a very big gap between the cost of living and wages, and it is that gap
which causes hunger and distress and ultimately strike. The point is that all
over India there is that gap today and unless that gap is bridged, there will
be industrial troubles. These can be bridged either by lowering the prices or
by raising the wages. I see today vast fortunes accumulated in the hands of a
few. On the other hand, the vast number of people are being faced with a heavy
burden of prices. How are we to meet this question of strike? It is not possible
or desirable to use the powers of the state (Govt.) against the strike”.
(Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
-Address to the Associated chamber of India in Kolkata on 12-12-1946).
“UNITY FOR STRUGGLE & STRUGGLE FOR UNITY”
K.G. BOSE
“When
the living conditions of the employees have been made critical by the
accentuating economic crisis and the Govt’s persistent efforts to make the
employees bear the burden of such crisis, when the discontentment among the
employees are generating due to Govt’s refusal to come to the succor of the
employees in such a critical living condition and when this discontentment is
on the point of bursting out on surface particularly centering around the issue
of Pay Commission - a great urge for unity among the employees and workers is being
increasingly found manifest. The urge being found expression whenever call for united
mass actions have been initiated in recent times to defend the living
conditions and democratic rights of the workers and employees. Struggle for
building up unity at the grass roots level, which can alone can ensure success
at our struggles for higher wages for better living conditions and for
democratic rights, is the key-task today”.
- K.G.Bose - 1973 - Article
