which neighbouring district of Mumbai provided an overwhelming majority majority of its mill workers in 1911
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The Great Bombay Textile Strike was a textile strike called on 18 January 1982 by the mill workers of Mumbai under trade union leader Dutta Samant. The purpose of the strike was to obtain bonus and increase in wages.Nearly 250,000 workers of 65 textile mills went on strike in Mumbai.[1]
Contents
1 History of Mills in Bombay
2 Protests
3 Consequences
4 Popular culture
5 See also
6 References
7 Further reading
8 External links
History of Mills in Bombay[edit]
Main article: Mumbai mills
Built in 1887, Swadeshi was Bombay's first textile mill, the first of the factories that spread over many parts of the island city in the next decades. Rastriya Mill Mazdoor Sangh was the officially recognized union of the Mills. By 1982, a new militant union leader by the name of Datta Samant had arrived on the scene. Earlier he had got major wage increases for workers of Premier Automobiles and a section of the Mill workers were hoping for the same. The major difference between Premier Automobiles and the Mills
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GIRANGAON.......Is the district provided an overwhelming majority of its mill workers in 1911