Archive / Audio / S.H. Jhabvala

Interview number: 118

Interviewer: Shanker, Uma

Interview date: 1969-10-05

Length 32 minutes

Condition notes: Poor quality – distortion, indistinct speech, some fading, ends abruptly.


S.H. Jhabvala, (87 years old when speaking here), pioneer of the Trade Union Movement in India, talks of his experiences in that field from 1910, beginning with the Post and Telegraph Union in Bombay.

See also: Global Labour website


Coverage notes: Ginwala; Post and Telegraph; Pie money; working conditions, rights, allowances; extremism, communism; Meerut Conspiracy; 1910-1937