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705L. A. DEBATES (CENTRAL) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (b) the names of the Trade Unions, both registered and unregistered, separately, who are supplied official publications free of cost; (c) the names of the Trade Unions, both registered and unregistered separately, who were invited to take part in the Tripartite Labour Conference and Committees ; and (d) the reasons for the differential treatment, if any, in the subject matters referred to in parts (b) and (c) ? The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) A list of registered trade unions, whose objects arc not confined to one province, compiled from materials readily available is attached. Particulars regarding unregistered trade unions are not available. (b) I presume the Honourable Member is referring only to unions whose objects are not confined to one province. Copies of certain bulletins, annual reports, etc., have been furnished free of cost, on request, to the two All-India Associations of workers, namely the All-India Trade Union Congress and the Indian Federation of Labour. No official publication is supplied free of cost to any individual trade union as such. (c) The constitution of the Tripartite Labour Conference and the Standing Labour Committee provides for the nomination of workers’ representatives in the following manner: (i) For the Labour Conference— 11 representatives of employees, of whom 4 will be nominated by Government in agreement with the AllIndia Trade Union Congress, 4 will be nominated by Government in agreement with the Indian Federation of Labour, and 3 will be nominated by Government as representatives of other employees interests. (ii) For the Standing Labour Committee— 5 representatives of employees, 4 of whom will be nominated by the Labour Member in agreement with the two All-India Associations of workers and the fifth nominated independently by the Labour Member. The nominations to the Conference and the Committees have been in accordance with their constitution and there has been no question of any differential treatment between different unions.

706 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES (d) It will be clear from the replies to (b) and (c) that no differential treatment has in fact occurred. Central Trade Union registered in the various Provinces Printing Presses— 1. Government of India Press Workers Union. Seamen— 2. Indian Merchants Navy Officers Asssociation, Bombay. Miscellaneous— 3. The All-India Telegraph Line Staff Union, Lahore. 4. The Indian Sugar Industry Employees Association, Lucknow. 5. Indian Sugar Mills Association, Calcutta. 6. Indian Jute Mills Association, Calcutta. 7. Imperial Bank of India, Indian Staff Association, Calcutta. 8. Central Council of Tobacco Manufacturing Workers Union. 9. All-India Telegraph Workmen’s Union, Lahore. 10. The Indian Southern Provinces Sugar Marketing Board, Madras. Railway and Transport— 11. N. W. Rly. Junior Clerks Association. 12. Bengal Assam Rail Road Workers’ Union. 13. Assam Bengal Rly. Employees Association. 14. E. I. Railway Employees Association, Calcutta. 15. Bengal and Assam Railway Employees Association. 16. B. N. R. Employees Union, Calcutta. 17. B. N. Rly. Indian Labour Union, Kharagpur. 18. N. W. Rly. Employees Union, Karachi. 19. G. I. P. Railwaymen’s Union, Bombay. 20. G. I. P. Railway Accounts Staff Union, Bombay. 21. B. B. & C. I. Railway Employees Association, Ahmedabad. 22. B. B. & C. I. Railwaymen’s Union, Bombay. 23. National Union of Railwaymen of India & Burma, Bombay. 24. B. B. & C. I. Railway Employees Union, Bombay.

707L. A. DEBATES (CENTRAL) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 25. G. I. P. Railway Contractors & Licenced Coolies Union, Bhusawal. 26. N. W. Railway Accounts Union, Lahore. 27. N. W. Railway Union, Lahore. 28. E. I. Railwaymen’s Union, Lucknow. 29. Railway Workers Association, Moradabad. 30. E. I. Railway Guards’ Association, Lucknow. 31. Railway Workmen’s Union of India, Allahabad. 32. B. N. Railwaymen’s Association, Gorakhpur. 33. E. B. Railway Workers’ Union. 34. Association of Accountants, E. I. Railway. 35. Association of Accountants, N. W. Railway, Lahore. 36. All-India Railway Mechanical Workers’ Federal Union, Lahore. 37. Delhi Sonipat Bus Service Union, Sonipat. 38. Ittehad Motor Union, Panipat. 39. N. W. Railway Guards Association, Lahore. 40. Federated Union of the N. W. Railway Workers, Lahore. 41. Union of the E. I. Railway Ticket Checking staff, Calcutta. 42. E. I. Railway Joint Hands Union, Hooghly. 43. All-India Railwaymen’s Union, Nagpur. 44. United Union of N. W. R. Workers, Lahore. 45. Delhi-Garmuktesar Motor Association. 46. East Indian Railway Muslim Employees Association, Lucknow. 47. S. S. Light Railway Employees Union, Saharanpur. 48. B. N. W. Railway Workers Association, Gorakhpur. 49. E. I. Railway Workers Association, Calcutta. 50. The Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Employees’ Union, Perambur, Madras. 51. The South Indian Railway Labour Union, Golden Rock, Trichinopoly. 52. The South Indian Railway Employees Association, Villupuram. 53. The All-India Railwaymen’s Federation, Mylapore, Madras.

708 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES 138 * Communal Composition in the Office of the Conciliation Officer (Railways) and Supervisor of Railway Labour 1. Mr. Muhammad Hussain Choudhury : Will the Honourable Member for Labour be pleased to state : (a) how many office clerks there are in the office of the Conciliation Officer (Railways) and Supervisor of Railway labour ; (b) how many Inspectors of Railway Labour have been appointed temporarily or permanently from December, 1942, upto the second week of February, 1944; and (c) out of these appointments, how many were recruited from— (i) depressed classes, (ii) caste Hindus, (iii) Muslims, and (iv) members of other communities ? The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Eleven including a Stenographer. (b) Five temporary Inspectors only have been appointed from December, 1942, upto January, 1944. (c) (i) Three. (ii) and (iv) None, (iii) Two. 139 @ Muslim Inspectors of Railway Labour 2. Mr. Muhammad Hussain Choudhury : (a) Will the Honourable the Labour Member please state the number of persons who served temporarily as Inspectors of Railway Labour and who were trained hands at the time of the first appointment of Mr. Jadhav, Conciliation Officer (Railways) ? * Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. I of 1944, 7th February 1944, pp. 24-25. @ Ibid., p. 25.

709L. A. DEBATES (CENTRAL) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (b) How many of these Inspectors were Muslims, and how many of the Muslims who had served temporarily as Inspectors were given chance of appointment to permanent or quasipermanent vacancies ? The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Two. (b) Both were Muslims. One has secured appointment elsewhere and the other at present officiating as an Inspector of Railway Labour. 140 * Depressed Class Appointments of Inspectors of Railway Labour 3. Mr. Muhammad Hussain Choudhury : (a) Will the Honourable the Labour Member please stale if it is true that five Inspectors of Railway labour posted respectively at Dacca, Tatanagar, Ajmcr, Asansol and Jalpainguri went on deputation to the Central Civil Supplies Department or as Civilian Labour Welfare Officers, in the military Department ? (b) Is it true that all these five long standing officiating vacancies which will continue up to the duration of the War, were filled up by five depressed class Hindu Inspectors who have been appointed arbitrarily by the Conciliation Officer (Railways) and Supervisor of Railway Labour, superseding the claims of two Muslims who have served temporarily for more than six months and who arc trained hands ? The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Yes, but all deputations were not to the Civil Supplies Department or as Civilian Labour Welfare Officers. (b) No, as will be clear from the reply to part (c) of question No. 1 of the same member. 141 @ Depressed Class Appointments of Inspectors of Railway Labour 4. Mr. Muhammad Hussain Choudhury : Will the Honourable the Labour Member please state if it is a fact that five long standing * Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. I of 1944, 7th February 1944, p. 25. @ Ibid. p. 25.