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Spinning mill workers strike work

CALLING ATTENTION: Employees of the Malappuram Cooperative Spinning Mills who struck work on Wednesday taking out a demonstration in Malappuram.

MALAPPURAM: Workers of spinning mills in the public and cooperative sectors in the State went on a strike on Wednesday in protest against the Union government’s cotton export policies. The strike was part of a nation-wide agitation in the textile industry.

The workers of the Malappuram Cooperative Spinning Mills took out a demonstration holding placards and raising slogans against the cotton import and export policy. Dozens of women were among the participants.

Others who joined the strike were from Malabar Spinning and Weaving Mills, Kozhikode; Kottayam Textiles, Chengannur; Prabhuram Mills, Ettumanoor; Edarikkode Textiles, Edarikkode; Sitaram Textiles, Thrissur; Kannur Cooperative Spinning Mills, Kannur; Thrissur Cooperative Spinning Mills, Vazhani; and Malabar Cooperative Textiles, Kuttippuram.

The workers demanded that cotton export be stopped till December 31. The other demands included regulation of imports to ensure a good price for thread in the domestic market.

The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry and the Southern India Mills Association had called the strike. Officials of the Malappuram Cooperative Spinning Mills said there was a severe shortage of cotton in the domestic market despite the country being the second largest producer of its in the world. The export and import policies followed by the Centre had plunged the textile industry into a crisis, they said.

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