ON December 28, the central secretariat of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) expressed profound grief over the demise of Comrade Kali Ghosh at 8.00 on the same morning, in a hospital at Kolkata. He was 83 and was one of the senior most leaders of the CITU. Comrade Kali Ghosh became a full time trade union activist from his early days and was involved in organising various sections of workers in West Bengal. He led many struggles of workers and was elected to various responsibilities in the CITU. He was elected secretary of the CITU state committee in the year 1980. From 2003 to 2012 he was general secretary of the West Bengal State CITU. In strengthening the functioning of the West Bengal state centre of the CITU, Comrade Kali Ghosh played a noteworthy role. He was elected one of the national secretaries of CITU in the year 1994 and continued in that position till the last conference of CITU in April 2013. He was elected to the national working committee of CITU in that conference and was also one of the secretaries of West Bengal state committee of CITU. He was also a member of the West Bengal state committee of CPI(M). In due recognition of his capabilities as a very long standing trade union leader, many central level important responsibilities were assigned to him. He represented CITU in various bipartite and tripartite committees and was a member of the Board of Employees State Insurance Corporation. He articulated authoritative knowledge in laws. He had written many books on issues related to labour, including labour laws. He had led many delegations of the CITU to various international meetings and conferences. The CITU dipped its flag in memory of Comrade Kali Ghosh and conveyed its condolences to his bereaved family members and comrades. Comrade Daulat Ram A SENIOR trade union and communist leader in Uttar Pradesh, Comrade Daulat Ram breathed his last at Kanpur on January 1, 2014. He was 67. Comrade Daulat Ram played a leading role in forging the working class struggles ahead in the state and led the state unit of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) from the front --- as its president or general secretary at various times. He was also a member of the CITU’s national working committee. Born in the family of an ordinary textile worker of Kanpur, Comrade Daulat Ram was a part of textile workers’ struggle from the very outset. He was founder president of the Uttar Pradesh state unit of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI). He was active over the last 45 years in organising struggles of organised as well as unorganised workers and was a respected figure among the textile, jute, engineering and power workers in particular. The way he organised the over-exploited glass/bangle workers of Ferozabad and the heights to which he took their struggle is simply unforgettable. Comrade Daulat Ram was a living part of the communist movement in Uttar Pradesh and has been a member of the CPI(M) since the very reorganisation of the party in 1964. He was earlier a member of the CPI(M) state secretariat and later, till his demise, a member of the CPI(M) state committee. Comrade Daulat Ram’s body was kept in Ram Aasrey Bhavan at Kanpur, from where the funeral procession started on January 2. The UP state units of the CPI(M) and the CITU have expressed a profound sense of grief over the untimely demise of Comrade Daulat Ram and conveyed their condolences to the bereaved family members and comrades.