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dated August 7, 1957: Nehru’s appeal to staff

Prime Minister Nehru has appealed to the Posts and Telegraphs staff and other workers to give up methods of strike and conflict involving illwill and injury to all concerned. In a nation-wide broadcast from All India Radio three days before a strike by the Central Government employees is scheduled to begin, he said the time had come when methods other than strikes should be evolved to resolve all industrial disputes. Mr. Nehru said the enquiry commission (which the Government have decided to set up to go into the wage structure of Government employees) “can make an interim report about relief or other matters. I do not know what more the Government can do in these circumstances.” The Prime Minister warned that if the strike took place then “no Government and no citizen can remain a helpless spectator of this inconvenience to the community. It becomes the duty of everyone therefore to help in meeting the situation and to maintain these essential services. I repeat the hope, however, that such a contingency will not arise.” Following Mr. Nehru’s broadcast, lobby circles were hopeful that the threatened strike may not after all come off.

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