Datta samant biography

Time was when Parel-Lalbagh, home today to one of Mumbai’s toniest commercial districts, hummed to the sound of textile mills, some of which were nearly 100 years old.

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Dr datta samant - leadership of mill workers

This was the city’s mill district with lakhs of workers employed in its many factories producing cotton textiles.

One fateful day, it came to a grinding halt, never to reopen.

The immediate provocation was the Great Bombay Textile strike which began on 18 January 1982 and involved some 250000 workers across 65 mills.

They represented what was believed to be the single largest unionized labor force in one city in one industry anywhere in the world and were led by Dattatray Samant, already famous for having extracted a generous wage hike for workers of the Premier Automobile plant.

Based on this achievement he had been chosen by the mill workers, till then largely represented by the INTUC-affiliated Rashtriya Mill Mazdoor Sangh to lead their figh