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dated August 9, 1957: Strike called off

The proposed strike by the Post and Telegraph employees all over India has been called off. The announcement calling off the strike was made at 4 p.m. on August 8 by Mr. B.N. Ghosh, General Secretary of the National Federation of Post and Telegraph Employees’ Unions, after its Action Council had been in session the whole day. The decision to call off the strike, which was scheduled to commence at midnight on August 8, follows a statement in the Lok Sabha by Prime Minister Nehru, in which, while appealing to the workers to desist from their move, he had explained that the proposed Pay Commission might consider the question of interim relief and might make an interim report. The Prime Minister’s statement was supplemented by Mr. Lal Bahadur Shastri, Union Minister for Transport and Communications, who made a fresh proposal to set up a committee to go into the demands of extra departmental staff employed by the Post and Telegraph Department.

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