May Day celebrated

NEW DELHI, MAY 1. (Uni)May Day was celebrated across the country today with workers resolving to forge greater unity to protect their rights.

Trade unions and social and voluntary organisations held rallies, gate meetings and interactions to find ways and means to resist the new economic policies which, they said, were playing havoc with the lives of the working classes.

The Prime Minister, Mr. A.B. Vajpayee, in a message on the occasion, said: ``May Day strengthens our commitment to the welfare of the workers and to evolve a more productive work culture in the country.''

Addressing the protestors who began their march from Mandi House, the trade union leaders took strong exception to the Vajpayee Government's move to introduce the ``Trade Unions Act, 1926 amendment bill'' in the Rajya Sabha. The bill, they said, sought to curtail the rights of the workers.

- UNI

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