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dated December 15, 1957: Labour’s role

Prime Minister Nehru said in Calcutta on December 14 that Government could not allow “cut-throat competition” of private enterprise at the cost of the survival of millions of people in this country. He was addressing the annual general meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry. He asked the industrialists to look to the labour problem not from the angle of their balance-sheet but from the angle of the “human balance sheet.” The approach should be one of partnership. The worker must feel that he was a partner in a great undertaking in which he was engaged. This would be good to the country as well as to himself. Only then the production would increase and there would be more wealth for the country, he said. Stressing the need for increased production, he said that in India to-day “strikes and lockouts are absurd.” He urged industrialists as well as workers to take note of this national need and avoid industrial unrest.

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