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Women play vital role - Thondaman

by P. Rajaratnam in Nuwara Eliya

CWC leader, Minister Arumugam Thondaman addressing a mammoth gathering of his Union's Women Convention at Talawakelle stressed the need for women workers who formed the highest working population in the country and in the plantation sector to play a more dominant and vital role in building up of their organisation and the nation.

Talking on the wage issue, he said the CWC which can look at the economic problems of the plantation sector in the best of interest of the workers as done in the past. He called upon the plantation workers to reject the various formulas and false promises of splinter trade unions who were as usual trying to hoodwink the plantation workers. He said those who falsely propagated various statistics and theories for the past several months decrying a just and equitable settlement on the question of wages by the CWC has not right to talk on behalf of the workers.

Deputy Chairman of the CWC M. S. Sellasamy who traced the history of the CWC and the role played by its former leaders and its accredited leader late S. Thondaman, said it will be the CWC which will deliver the goods in the larger interest of the plantation workers.

The meeting also unanimously denounced the setting up of the Upper Kotmale Project in the interest of the country and its habitants living in this part of the nation.

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