Working Class Movement

✅1870: Sasipada Banarjee started Workingmen's club. Newspaper: Bharat Shramjeevi  

✅1880: N M Lokhandey started newspaper Deenbandhu and set up Bombay Mill and Millhands  

Association  

✅1889: First strike by Great Indian Peninsular Railways ( Tilka's support)  

✅1920: AITUC  

🔸 INC President of the year was elected president of AITUC ( Lala Lajpat Rai)  

🔸Dewan Chaman Lal- First sect.  

🔸Other presidents- C R Das  

✅Gaya session of Congress (1922) welcomed formation of AITUC and committee was formed to  

assist it  

✅1926: The Trade Union Act  

🔸Trade union as legal associations  

🔸Secured immunity both civil and criminal, for trade unions  

✅1928: Six month long strike in Bombay Textile Mills led by Girni Kamgar Union  

✅1929: Public Safety Ordinance 

 

✅1929: Trade Disputes Act

  

🔸Made illegal the strikes in public utility services like posts. Railways, water and electricity  

✅1929: Meerut Conspiracy Case  

🔸Conviction of M Ahmad, S A Dange, Joglekar, P Spratt, B Bradley, Shaukat Usmani and others  

✅1931: N M Joshi broke away from the AITUC to set up All India Trade Union Federation

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