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...Seminar also heard a discussion of "India Since Independence" by Miss Mukul Mukherjee, of the Indian National Congress, Harish C. Kapur, of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, and Narain K. Pant, of the University of Delhi...
...Prakash Narain...
...government signed a contract with the All India Railwaymen's Federation. It included a cost-of-living allowance pegged to rising prices. The government argued later that it could not keep the contract without contributing to the disastrous price spiral. The railway federation, dominated by Jai Prakash Narain's Socialist Party, screamed that it had been betrayed. In December its 350,000 members voted to strike on March...
...Chance. During the breathing spell between strike vote and walkout, U.S. educated Socialist Narain talked with the government. By Feb. 16, he told his railroad men that the government had granted a $3 monthly pay raise to low-paid employees and would consider other demands. The union leaders voted to postpone the strike. But some rank-&-filers wanted their full contract rights. The Communists grabbed their chance...
...leaders of local unions blasted the Socialists with familiar Moscow invective: "Betrayers! Opportunists! Careerists!" then announced they would go ahead with the strike. Boss Narain promptly expelled the Communist locals from his federation...