When industrial unrest broke out in the textile mills of Coimbatore in 1948
The HinduWithin six months of Independence, a major industrial unrest broke out in the textile sector of Coimbatore, an industrial city in the western Tamil Nadu. The case of the labour was represented by P. Ramamurti, vice-president, All-India Textile Workers’ Federation, who later became a key leader of the Communist Party of India, and G. Ramanujam, general secretary, National Textile Workers Union, who went on to head the Indian National Trade Union Congress. Night shift changed It was against this backdrop that the Standardisation Committee’s report on workload prompted the management to assess that 11,200 workers had become surplus. In a release issued on January 9, the SIMA said, “The mill owners have assured the Government and the labour leaders that all possibilities of re-employing as much of surplus labour as possible by working an extra day in the week or an extra shift, wherever possible, will be explored.” As the problem escalated, the government tried to mediate. On March 20, the government asked the mill owners to resume their operations in two days, as sections of the workers wanted to return to work.
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