The Movement of the Working Class

Question 1

1870started a workingmen’s club

and newspaper Bharat Shramjeevi

Answer 1

Sasipada Banerjea

Question 2

1878 tried to get a bill,

providing better working conditions to labour, passed in the Bombay Legislative Council.

Answer 2

Sorabjee Shapoorji Bengalee

Question 3

1880 started the newspaper Deenbandhu and set up the Bombay Mill and Millhands Association

Answer 3

Narain Meghajee Lokhanday

Question 4

The first strike by the Great Indian Peninsular

Railways took place in

Answer 4

1899

Question 5

Led strikes in Tuticorin and Tirunelvelli and were arrested.

Answer 5

Subramaniya Siva and Chidambaram Pillai l

Question 6

imperialism and militarism are the twin children of

capitalism”.

Answer 6

Lala Lajpat Rai,

Question 7

All India Trade Union Congress 1920

Answer 7

Lala Lajpat Rai, was elected as the first president of

AITUC and Dewan Chaman Lal as the first general secretary.

Question 8

The prominent Congress and swarajist leader presided over the third and the fourth sessions of the AITUC

Answer 8

C.R. Das

Question 9

Welcomed formation of the AITUC

Answer 9

The Gaya session of the Congress (1922

Question 10

Other leaders who kept close contacts with

the AITUC included

Answer 10

Nehru, Subhas Bose, C.F. Andrews, J.M.

Sengupta, Satyamurthy, V.V. Giri and Sarojini Naidu

Question 11

helped organise the Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association (1918) and through a protest secured a 27.5 per cent wage hike

Answer 11

Gandhi

Question 12

The Trade Union Act, 1926 provisions

Answer 12

recognised trade unions as legal associations;
● laid down conditions for registration and regulation
of trade union activities;
● secured immunity, both civil and criminal, for trade
unions from prosecution for legitimate activities, but
put some restrictions on their political activities

Question 13

In 1928 there was a six-month-long strike in Bombay Textile Mills led by the

Answer 13

Girni Kamgar Union

Question 14

1920s period also saw the crystallisation of various communist groups, with leaders like
.

Answer 14

S.A. Dange, Muzaffar Ahmed, P.C. Joshi, Sohan Singh Joshi etc

Question 15

Trade Disputes Act 1929

Answer 15

made compulsory the appointment of Courts of
Inquiry and Consultation Boards for settling industrial
disputes

made illegal the strikes in public utility services unless each individual worker planning to go on strike gave an
advance notice of one month to the administration

forbade trade union activity of coercive or purely
political nature and even sympathetic strikes

Question 16

Meerut Conspiracy Case (1929 associated leaders

Answer 16

resulted in the conviction of Muzaffar Ahmed, S.A. Dange, Joglekar, Philip Spratt, Ben Bradley, Shaukat Usmani and others

Question 17

broke away from the AITUC to set up the All India Trade Union Federation.

Answer 17

N.M. Joshi

Question 18

dissociated themselves from the Quit India Movement.

Answer 18

The communists