On the second day of May 2025, our Federation of Retired LiC Class-I Officers' Associations General Council will meet in their 12th meeting and will celebrate the Federation's Silver Jubilee at Bengaluru. Beside the celebration of Silver jubilee, the meeting will consider the performances of the leadership and will formulate the tasks ahead to be guidelines for fulfilling the meaningful aspirations of the retired Class-I officers of LIC. The introduction of the pension scheme in LIC in 1995 gave the idea and impetus of forming a national level body or organisation of retired LIC Class-I officers. With this background S/Sri V N KELKAR, S K MUKHERJEE, V K JAIN, G N Sridharan, and AROBINDO GHOSH met in New Delhi on 2nd May 2000 and decided to form this Federation of which the Silver Jubilee will be celebrated on the coming 2nd MAY. EASTERN NEWS wishes the upcoming Silver Jubilee General Council meeting a grand success.
1st May is celebrated as the MAY DAY throughout the globe in remembrance of the struggle and sacrifices of the workers community. May Day in America was born out of the 8-hours workday movement in the 19th Century in Chicago. A limitless hours shift was made usual for workers at that time. Decades before the 8-hour work-day became the Country's norm, the organization now known as the "American Federation of Labour" set May 1, 1886, as the date that workers nationwide should go on strike to demand the 8-hours work day. On May 3, the Police and armed forces attacked demonstrating workers killing six. The movement intensified, resulting in violent attacks by forces following killings of workers and bloodshed. Police also arrested eight leaders in view of the massacre at Haymarket. There was a trial of those eight men, who were declared to be guilty of conspiracy to murder, even though no evidence could be produced. Eventually they were hanged. Through sacrifices of so many workers' lives, the 8- hours working day has become a reality today.
We salute with deep respect to the martyrs, who laid down their lives for securing the Right of Eight hours working day of the Working-class.
THE May 2025 edition of EASTERN NEWS is being sent in attachment to this email.
Regards
Biman Kumar Bhattacharjee
General Secretary
LIC Retired Class-1 Officers' Association.
Kolkata
Mobile-98748750597
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