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Pending salary: Mill workers resort to novel agitation

Puducherry, Mar 21 (UNI)Workers of the Swadeshi Cotton Mills and Sri Bharathi Textile mills here resorted to a novel agitation on Thursday to press their demands immediate disbursement of their eight months pending salary.
Demanding the disbursement of pending salary and the bonus for 2018,the workers resorted to a “begging” agitation here .With begging bowls in their arms they sought alms from the public to draw the attention of the government to their issue ,on the third day of their continuous agitations.
It may be noted that on March 19, they prepared rice gruel and yesterday they held a black flag demonstration.
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