Mill workers held

PONDICHERRY, MARCH 24. Scores of workers of the NTC-run Swadeshi Cotton mills were arrested today when they allegedly gheraoed mill officials, demanding a tribunal to finalise higher wages for workers.

A communication from the CITU assistant secretary, Mr. S. Sivakumar, said leaders belonging to various unions were arrested. He said while the Pondicherry Administration had set up Special Industries Tribunal separately for the AFT and spinning mills nothing had been done to help the workers of the Bharathi and Swadeshi mills.

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