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Donated by Dr J.S. Davis

Papers relating to mill strikes from the N.M. Joshi Papers and to railway strikes from the P. Thakaduras Papers.

Folder 1 – 

• Report and proceedings of the 15^th session of the All India Trade Union Congress held in Bombay on the 17^th and 18^th May 1936.

Folder 2 – 

• Shamaldharee Lall ‘Organisation of labour in the Indian Cotton Textile Industry’ in M.P. Gandhi (ed) Indian Cotton Textile Industry Centenary Volume 1851-1950 (n.p,n.d. (1951)) p.146
• BSEC Proceedings (Bombay Strike Enquiry Committee)
• Assorted pages from the proceedings of the Bombay Strike Enquiry Committee

Folder 3 – 

• List of the leather workshops in Bombay and their addresses, N.M. Joshi Papers, File No. 87.
• List of the leather workshops in Bombay and their addresses, N.M. Joshi Papers, File No. 87.
• Report on mill strike 16/8/28.
• Letter from the Labour organisation committee, Bombay, 23^rd April 1927. N.M. Joshi Papers, File no.23.
• Agreement between JMSC and BMOA reached on the 15^th August 1928, N.M. Joshi Papers File No. 39.
• N.M. Joshi Papers, File No. 44.
  • The Toyo Podar Cotton Mills Ltd, Rules and regulations in force above mills which are bind in upon all employees of the Mills or Company
  • Written statement submitted by Mr Sorabjee Merwanji Solal, Carding and Spinning Master, Bombay
  • Written statement submitted by Mr N.G. Hunt, Governing director, Messrs. Greaves Cotton and Co.
  • Statement of notes submitted by Mr C.N. Moberley.
• M. Joshi Papers, File no.46,
  • Joint Strike Committee, communique no.10, 5/5/28.
  • The terms of settlement presented to the Bombay Mill-owners Association by the Joint Mill Strike Committee.
  • Condition and procedure of the boards’ work.
  • Proposed rough draft for the settlement of the textile strike.
  • Proposals for settlement of strike drawn up by the President’s Committee for Conciliation, 21^st September 1928.
  • Letter to Dr. G.V. Deshmukh from Joint Mill Strike Committee, 21^st September 1928.
  • Agreement between the Millowners’ Association and the Joint Strike Committee, 4^th October 1928.
  • Letter to N.M. Joshi, 24^th October 1928
  • Agreement arrived at the 26^th October 1928, The Bombay Dyeing and Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
• M. Joshi Papers, File 8 Part 1.
• N. Haksar Papers, 3^rd Installment, Subject File no.221 (1970-73)
• M. Joshi Papers, File 16 Part 1
• M. Joshi Papers, File 10, NMML
• M. Joshi Papers, File 17
• N. Haksar Papers, NMML, 3^rd Installment, Subject File No. 221
• Pamplet No. 1, The Immediate Issue, Western India National Liberal Association Propaganda Committee, N.M. Joshi Papers, NMML, File 8 Part 2, F/N08(1).
• M. Joshi Papers, File No. 19A
• M. Joshi Papers, File No. 21
  • Letter from F.J. Ginwala, Provincal Committee of the All-India Trade Union Congress, 16^th November 1926.
  • Appendix A Proceedings of the meeting of the Bombay Provincial committee of the All-India Trade Union Congress 31^st October 1926.
  • Letter to B.R. Bakhalo Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the All-India Trade Union Congress, 25^thDecember 1925.
  • Letter to Sir Leslie Wilson, Governor of Bombay, 8 pages.

Folder 4 – 

• M. Joshi Papers, File No. 14 (p1)
  • Mitsubushi Economic Research Bureau, Monthly Circular, June 1933.
  • Table of the Change in Profit Rate in 5 years.
  • Table of the Progress in Labour Cost of Spinning Industry per 10,000 Spindles
  • Table of the International Comparison of Spinning Labour Cost for 40s.
  • Newspaper clipping ‘Exploitation Charge refuted by Millowners.’ Times of India 19^th May 1934, 2 pages. About General Strike.
  • Newspaper cutting ‘Mody does Not Want, but Corporation passes motion for settlement of textile dispute’ About General Strike, 11^th May 1934. 4 pages.
  • Report on cotton mills in Bombay. 9 pages.
  • Statement comparing the Bombay Millowners’ Standardisation Scheme of 1934 with the scheme given in the Fawcett Committee’s Report and the results of the wage consensus of 1926.
  • Table on the number of time and piece workers in selected departments in each of the 49 cotton mills in Bombay City covered for the ad hoc enquiry for the month of December 1933.
  • Wanted Two Enquiries.
  • Millowners’ Wage Reduction Scheme. 7 pages.
  • Statement of the Ahmedabad Millowners’ Association submitted to the administrators on the subject of the proposed cut of 25% in the wages of operatives.
  • Note on the Proposed wage cut in the Ahmedabad Textile Mill Industry. 16 pages.
  • Replies of the Textile Labour Association, Ahmedabad to the Bombay Labour Office. 16 pages.
  • Wage reductions in Bombay Mills
  • Position of Bombay Mills.
  • Wage reductions in Bombay City.
  • Analysis of the wage cuts.
  • Bombay Cotton Textile Industry, Comparative Statement of the wages for piece workers.
  • Bombay Cotton Textile Industry, Comparative Statement of the wages for time workers.
  • The General Strike of the Bombay Millworkers Statement No. 9.
  • An Appeal for help to the Bombay Mill-workers Families.
  • The General Strike of the Bombay Millworkers Statement No. 8
• M. Joshi Papers, File No. 14 p2.
  • Wage cuts and real wages.
  • Millowners’ ‘wage reduction’ scheme.
  • Newspaper ‘Mill Companies Lose’ Free Press Journal 13^th July 1934.
  • Newspaper cutting ‘Wage Standardisation in Textile Industry’
  • Newspaper cutting ‘Textile Labour Plans Resistance’, 29^th Jan 1934.
  • Newspaper cutting ‘Concerted action to meet capitalist offensive’ 29^th Jan 1934.
  • Newspaper cutting about the wage cut enquiry, Times of India 28^th June 1934.
  • Newspaper cutting ‘Mr. N.M. Joshi and the Mill Strike’ Times of India, 9^th May 1934.
  • Newspaper cutting ‘Millowners and workers’ Times of India, 21^st May 1934
  • Newspaper cutting ‘Inefficiency of mill labour’ Times of India, 22^nd May 1934
  • Newspaper cutting ‘T.U.C. Call for all reply to millowners attack on wages, Free Press Journal, 28^thDecember 1933.
  • Newspaper Cutting ‘Plan for All-India Textile strike’
  • Report on Wage Reductions.
• N.M. Joshi Urban Handicrafts of the Bombay Deccan (Poona 1936), Asiatic 1572.954.

Folder 5 – 

• Thakurdas Papers, File 42 (II)/1923-34.
  • Letter to Purshotamadas Thakurdas from Ghavhjauds ? 26^th April 1929
  • Letter to Purshotamadas Thakurdas from M.M. Muzumdaz. 22^nd May 1929.
  • Letter to Muzumdar from Thakurdas, 7^th June 1929.
• Letter to L.R. Tairace from Thakurdas, Thakurdas Papers, File 81 (I)/1929
• Thakurdas Papers, File 81 (II)/1929
  • Letter to Thakurdas from G.D Birla 10^th May 1929.
  • Letter to Thakurdas from G.D Birla 4^th May 1929.
• Thakurdas Papers, File 112/1931
  • Notice to Kingsway workshop employees, The Bombay Electric Supply and Tramways Co. Ltd, 31^st March 1932.
  • Letter to Thakurdas from Stanley Reed, The Bombay Electric Supply and Tramways Co. Ltd, 18^th March 1932
  • Letter to Thakurdas from C.N. Moberly, The Bombay Electric Supply and Tramways Co. Ltd, 4^th February 1932
  • Best and Trades Unionism, The Bombay Electric Supply and Tramways Co. Ltd, 11^th February 1932.
  • Settlement of dispute: September-October 1931, The Bombay Electric Supply and Tramways Co. Ltd,
• Thakurdas Papers, File No. 112/1931 p2.
  • Diamond Jubilee of Inauguration of the tramway service in Bombay, 9^th May 1874.
  • Letter to Thakurdas, The Bombay Electric Supply and Tramways Co. Ltd, 12^th April 1934.
  • Statement showing number of shareholders of various communities and their holdings as on the 31^stDecember 1933.
  • Development of traffic, half-anna fares