Gandhi orders ban on strikes
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THE INDIAN Government has just empowered itself to ban all strikes and jail not only strikers but those instigating the strikes. Work-torules and go-slows can also be outlawed.
According to the 'Economist' magazine, the motive for this move is not economic - there have not been many strikes in India this year - but political. The Congress Party apparently hopes to squeeze out rival union federations and boost the Congress-controlled So far, the response of the opposition trade unions has been to plan a one-day general strike - which would be in direct defiance of the States controlled by opposition parties could also refuse to enforce the new law - and that could lead to prime minister Indira Gandhi trying to remove the state governments. ing all over Poland. day, 30th.
slogans like 'hungry' other cities and many strike in the third week in the workers of Warsaw and the women of Lodz.
soap powder, coffee and Poland desperate. Queuing has increased, to get enough to survive.