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Labourers take out rally in Bellary

Staff Correspondent

BELLARY: Processions, burning of effigies, shram daan and issuing of identity cards marked the 119th May Day celebrations in Bellary on Sunday.

Members of the district unit of the United Trade Union Centre (Lenin-Sarani) took out a procession and burnt an effigy to register their protest against some of the alleged anti-labour policies of the Government. A meeting was also organised at Gandhi Bhavan and Somashekar, labour leader, addressed the gathering. Natraj of the Bank Employees' Unity Forum; Yerriswamy and Gangu Nayak of the Mine Labourers' Association; and representatives of loading workers' union, red-oxide factory workers union, footpath vendors association and KPTCL Contract Labourers' Association participated in the protest Members of the RBK Autodrivers' Association led by its president, S. Pannaraj, did shram daan by cleaning a park.

The Hamalara Sangha at the APMC yard distributed identity cards among its members. Aleshwaragowda, president of the association, addressed the members.

`Rescue workers'

Our Chitradurga Staff Correspondent reports:

G.H. Thippa Reddy, Chitradurga MLA, has urged the State Government to come to the rescue of labourers in the unorganised sector.

Speaking at a function to mark May Day here on Sunday, he favoured legislation to protect the interests of unorganised workers.

He noted that last month, three construction labourers died in Chitradurga town and their families did not get any help from the Government.

Work conditions should be improved and the services of anganwadi workers, porters and "Bisiyuta" workers should be regularised, he said. Mr. Reddy promised to take steps to build 300 houses at a cost of Rs. 5 crores for women labourers in the Chitradurga APMC.

H.K. Ramachandrappa, noted labour leader and joint secretary of the Communist Party of India State unit, condemned the "attitude" of the State Government towards the labour class.

C.M. Venkataramu, labour leader, inaugurated "Comrade Pampapathy Bhawan" named after noted labour leader and former legislator Pampapathy. S.K. Basavarajan, administrator of Sri Murugha Mutt, spoke.

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