Today is the 15th death anniversary of Revolutionary Leader of the P and T and Central Employees movement, Comrade N.J.Iyer. He left us on 13th February 2000.Com.Iyer’s life is completely intertwined with the P and T union movement since 1945, the year in which he joined the P and T Department. He was elected as the General Secretary of the All India RMS and MMS Employees Union Class III in the All India Conference of R-III Union held at Amritsar from 8-13 September 1963. He continued as the General Secretary till Jabalpur AIC held in 1985, when he voluntarily stepped down and handed over charge to Com.B.K.Banerjee as GS.
Com.Iyer was elected as the President of NFPTE in 1992 and continued as such.Com.Iyer was arrested and kept in custody during Emergency.
Iyer’s contribution in making the R III as a militant trade union is beyond words.
Iyer was a manifestation of how a true trade union leader should be. Simple living and high thinking was his life style. He never tolerated the reformist path and fought against it in the TU movement. After Com.KG Bose passed awayin 1974, it was Com.Iyer who led the P & T trade union movement on the corret path. There are a lot of incidents of his high integrity and straight dealings with the workers and comrades.
Red Salute to Com.N.J.Iyer!