AMRITA BAZAR PATRIKA, MAY 5, 1971
NF RY WORKERS URGE RECOGNITION OF BANGLADESH
From Our Correspondent
Pandu, May 4. The Central Council of the NF Railway Mazdoor Union in its 4day meeting at Lnumding from April 30 demanded immediate recognition of Bangladesh.
The Council “expressed its deep sense of horror at the massacre there by West Pakistan army of innocent and freedom-loving people.
The conference which was attended to by about 200 delegates and visitors representing all the 19 branches of the union in another resolution regretted that while the people of Bangladeshi were fighting for democracy and economic political and cultural emancipation against the military rule of Pakistan no other power in the world except India had expressed moral support to them.
The resolution added that those had escaped the military brutality there and crossed over had become the problem of India alone. India alone had to find its resources to provide them with food, clothes and shelters etc. The U.N. with its Security Council, Red Cross organisation rehabilitation organisation, refugee organisation was controlled by a few big powers that were “yet on-lookers of the grim struggle in Bangladesh”, it said.
The meeting, which was Presided over by its President Mr. Basanta Chandra Ghose, a senior lawyer of Patna, in another resolution discarded the American type of trade unionism in the form of categorical council “which brings isolation in the integrity and solidarity of the healthy trade unionism”.
It also decided to organise demonstration in front of the General Manager’s office on August 9 next on various demands of the report of the Third Pay Commission.