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Thursday, Dec 23, 2004

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Scribes demand new wage board

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, DEC. 22. Demanding announcement of a new wage board for the newspaper industry, reinstatement of 362 employees of Hindustan Times and an end to assaults on the press in Kerala and other States, journalists and press workers took out a candlelight procession in the Capital on Tuesday evening. Organised by the united forum of the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) and the Delhi State Newspaper Employees Federation (DSNEF), comprising newspapers and news agencies of Delhi, protesters raised slogans against the sacking of the newspaper employees and attacks on scribes. They demanded that the Government should not only immediately fix a new wage structure for the media but also ensure that all sacked employees were reinstated. The procession was preceded by a convention attended by journalists and press workers from newspapers in Delhi. Senior trade union leaders including CITU president, M.K. Pandhe, HMS leaders R.A. Mittal and A.D. Nagpal, Congress MP Harish Rawat, CPI MP Sudhakar Reddy, and RSP MP, N.K. Premachandran, were among those who addressed the meeting. The convention was presided by the DUJ president, S.K. Pande, and also addressed by leaders of 11 newspaper unions in Delhi.

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