Hind Mazdoor Sabha: Difference between revisions

| founder            = Basawon Singh, Ashok Mehta, R.S. Ruikar, Maniben Kara, Shibnath Banerjee, R.A. Khedgikar, T.S. Ramanujam, V.S. Mathur, G.G. Mehta.

| headquarters        = New Delhi

| membership          = 3.3 Million

| leader_name        = Harbhajan Singh (General Secretary) & C.A. Rajasridhar (President)

Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), is the third largest trade-union federation in India after the All-India Trade Union Congress and the Indian National Trade Union Congress. The HMS was formed by the Socialists in 1948 but has little real connection with the Socialist Party. It is one of the least political and most pragmatic trade-union federations in India. The HMS is affiliated with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

The HMS was founded in [[Howrah]] in west Bengal on 29 December 1948, by socialists, [[All India Forward Bloc|Forward Bloc]] followers and independent unionists. Its founders included [[Basawon Singh (Sinha)]], [[Ashok Mehta]], [[R.S. Ruikar]], [[Maniben Kara]], [[Shibnath Banerjee]], [[R.A. Khedgikar]], [[T.S. Ramanujam]], [[V.S. Mathur]], [[G.G. Mehta]]. R.S. Ruikar was elected president and Ashok Mehta general secretary. HMS absorbed the [[M.N. Roy|Royist]] [[Indian Federation of Labour]] and the [[Hind Mazdoor Panchayat]], which was formed in 1948 by socialists leaving the increasingly communist dominated [[AITUC]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Industrial Relations, Trade Unions, and Labour Legislation| pages=79–80|first1=P.R.N.|last1=Sinha|first2=Indubala|last2=Sinha|last3=Shekhar|first3=Seema|publisher=Pearson Educational |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6lBKowR6ReoC&pg=PA80&dq=Hind+mazdoor+sabha&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj21s3ClPbUAhVL2IMKHYXnAT84ChDoAQgnMAE#v=onepage&q=Hind%20mazdoor%20sabha&f=false|year=2006}}</ref> In March 1949, HMS claimed to have 380 affiliated unions with a combined membership of 618,802.<ref>Park, Richard L.. ''[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3024423 Labor and Politics in India]'', in Far Eastern Survey, Vol. 18, No. 16. (10 August 1949), pp. 181-187.</ref><ref name="mki">[http://www.mkiindia.org/hms.htm header3<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071128112817/http://www.mkiindia.org/hms.htm |date=28 November 2007 }}</ref>

[[All India Railwaymen's Federation]], the largest trade union in the [[Indian Railways]] with a membership of 1.4 million is affiliated with Hind Mazdoor Sabha.<ref name="ET0613">{{cite news|title=Indian Railways headed for first indefinite strike in October |url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation/railways/indian-railways-headed-for-first-indefinite-strike-in-october/articleshow/20825762.cms| publisher=Economic Times|date=June 29, 2013|author=Vikas Dhoot}}.</ref><ref name="HMS">{{cite web|title=List of Federations|url=http://www.hindmazdoorsabha.com/office-details.php?ID=6|publisher = Hind Mazdoor Sabha|accessdate=July 7, 2017}}</ref> [[All India Port and Dock Workers Federation]], the largest trade union representing workers at India's 12 major government-owned ports is also affiliated with the Hind Mazdoor Sabha.<ref name="CoC">{{cite book|title= Challenge of Change: Industrial Relations in Indian Industry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pnI7-soFMcUC&pg=PA454|page=454|editor1-last=Venkataraman|editor1-first=CS|editor2-last=Varma|editor2-first=Anil|publisher = Allied Publishers|year=1997|contribution=Changes in Industrial Relation in Indian Ports|last=Venkataraman|first=CS|accessdate=July 7, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Government planning to convert 12 of 13 Union govt-owned ports into companies|accessdate=July 7, 2017|url=http://www.livemint.com/Politics/1bNWZWafvfvLyVywQK6vvJ/Government-planning-to-convert-12-of-13-ports-into-companies.html|publisher=LiveMint|author=P. Manoj}}</ref>