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Indian Coffee House is not incurring losses, say workers

PUDUCHERRY: The Indian Coffee House Workers Cooperative Union (ICHWCU) on Wednesday appealed to the territorial administration “not to be misled” by the propaganda launched against them.

Honorary president of the union and Tamil Nadu State Committee member of Communist Party of India (Marxist) T. Murugan said that “certain vested interests” were trying to create an impression that the Indian Coffee House, run by the workers, had become a loss-making unit.

Denying the charge about the financial condition of the coffee house, he said the society which had been running the it, was able to manage the day-to-day affairs without hampering the interest of the workers.

“Though it is not making huge profit, we are able to manage it,” Mr. Murugan said.

The Indian Coffee House was being run by workers themselves without getting any grant or assistance from the government. If the government extended financial assistance, as it was done to the textile mills, it could be made profitable, he said.

Mr. Murugan appealed to the administration to relieve the society of the responsibility of running the canteen of Anglo French Textiles as it was incurring losses. Otherwise the government should compensate the losses, he said.

The delay in renovating the old building of the Indian Coffee House on Jawaharlal Nehru Street was putting in additional financial burden as they had to run the hotel on a rented premises.

The society paid a monthly rent of Rs. 35,000 to run the hotel, he said.

Urging the government to return the management of Le Café on the Beach Road to the society, Mr. Murugan said the Indian Coffee House used to run the hotel in the past.

The union would organise a protest on June 3 to highlight their grievances, he added.

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