'CWC will strengthen with people's support'

S Duraisamy Maskeliya Group correspondent

As far as there is unity among plantation workers, the Ceylon Worker's Congress will strengthen and nobody will be able to shake it, said Livestock Development and Rural Community Development Minister and CWC General Secretary Arumugam Thondaman.

He was addressing a meeting at the Public Bus Terminals, Nuwara Eliya on May 1. Minister Arumugam Thondaman said plantation workers have faith in him.

"I shall always be with the people of the plantation community. The Indian community in plantations are safeguarded by the CWC. I will work towards getting ownership of houses in which they live," he said. CWC is the only trade union that can achieve the wage increment, he added."It is only when the community is with us that we can safeguard them," he said.

CWC is still operating on the ways shown by late leader Soumiyamoorthy Thondaman. I call upon all plantation workers to unite under one banner and rally round the CWC for a better future," he said.