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{{Short description|Trade union in the Indian state of Hyderabad}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}}
{{Infobox union
|name = AHTUC
|location_country= [[India]]
|affiliation = [[All India Trade Union Congress]]
|members = 72,000
|full_name = All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress
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|image =
|founded = 1946
|dissolved =
|merged =
|headquarters =
|key_people = [[Makhdoom Mohiuddin]], president, Raj Bahadur Gour, general secretary
|website =
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The '''All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress''' (AHTUC) was a [[trade union]] centre in the [[Hyderabad State]]. Affiliated to the [[All India Trade Union Congress]],<ref name="p1">Bhaskara Rao, V. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=G6QyAAAAMAAJ Agrarian and Industrial Relations in Hyderabad State]''. New Delhi: Associated Pub. House, 1985. p. 121</ref> it claimed a membership of around 72,000.<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=V3IiAQAAIAAJ The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's Who]''. Bombay: Bennett, Coleman, 1955. p. 977</ref> The trade union centre, which was aligned with the [[Communist Party of India]], was one of the organisations that took part in the [[Telangana Rebellion]] against the [[Nizam]] regime.

==Foundation==
The founding of the AHTUC was preceded by a [[Marathwada]] Labour Conference held in [[Aurangabad, Maharashtra|Aurangabad]] on 30 November 1945. The conference was organized by unions which were under the leadership of the Communist Party. The conference elected a provisional committee for the formation of a new trade union centre in the Hyderabad State.<ref name="p2">Bhaskara Rao, V. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=G6QyAAAAMAAJ Agrarian and Industrial Relations in Hyderabad State]''. New Delhi: Associated Pub. House, 1985. p. 119</ref> The founding meeting of the AHTUC was held in [[Secunderabad]] on 16–18 August 1946.<ref name="p1"/><ref name="r0"/> The new union centre was inaugurated by the veteran trade union leader [[N.M. Joshi]], who was the general secretary of the AITUC.<ref name="r0"/><ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZyUFAAAAMAAJ Immortal Heroes: Lives of Communist Leaders]''. New Delhi: Communist Party of India, 1975. p. 85</ref> The founding president [[Makhdoom Mohiuddin]] of the AHTUC, who had an arrest warrant against him and lived underground, was arrested immediately after the meeting. He was later released.<ref>Gour, Raj Bahadur. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=UQ1uAAAAMAAJ Random Writings]''. Hyderabad: Makhdoom Society in collaboration with Prachee Publications, Hyderabad, 2002. p. 182</ref>

Upon its foundation, the new organization affiliated itself with the AITUC.<ref name="p1"/> The Singareni Collieries Workers Union, a union organising labourers in the Singareni coal fields, was affiliated itself to the AHTUC.<ref name="a1">Ram Reddy, R. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Rh4TOzv2toMC&pg=PA122 Industrial Relations in India: A Study of the Singareni Collieries]''. New Delhi, India: Mittal Publications, 1990. pp. 122–23</ref>

==Leadership==
The [[Urdu poet]] Makhdoom Mohiuddin was the founding president of the AHTUC,<ref>Arora, N.D.. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=z8Flb0gZ3ZkC&pg=RA3-PA11 Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination]''. New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill, 2010. p. 11</ref><ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=cWtOAAAAYAAJ India Partitioned: The Other Face of Freedom]''. New Delhi: Roli Books, 1995. p. 83</ref> whilst Raj Bahadur Gour was the founding general secretary of the organisation.<ref name="r0">Gour, Raj Bahadur. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=UQ1uAAAAMAAJ Random Writings]''. Hyderabad: Makhdoom Society in collaboration with Prachee Publications, Hyderabad, 2002. p. 5</ref><ref>Nehru, Jawaharlal, M. Chalapathi Rau, and Sarvepalli Gopal. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ihpuAAAAMAAJ Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru]''. Ser. 2. Vol. 18, (1 April – 5 July 1952). 1996. p. 193</ref> Sayed Makhdoom served as vice president of the AHTUC.<ref>Gour, Raj Bahadur. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=nBwYYKr2oKUC Glorious Telengana Armed Struggle]''. New Delhi: New Age printing press, 1973. p. 9</ref>

==Crackdown==
Soon after the formation of the new trade union centre one of its affiliates, the electricity workers union led by B.S. Madhav Singh, broke away from the AHTUC and instead joined the [[socialist]] trade union centre [[Hind Mazdoor Sabha]].<ref>Radhakrishna Sarma, Mukkamala, K. D. Abhyankar, and S. G. Moghe. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=6kduAAAAMAAJ History of Hyderabad District, 1879–1950 A.D., Yugabda 4981–5052]''. Hyderabad: Bharatiya Itihasa Sankalana Samiti, 1987. pp. 91–92</ref>

In August 1946, the regime began a crackdown on the AHTUC.<ref name="a1"/><ref>Batra, Satish K., and Tej K. Jain. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=YyftAAAAMAAJ State Enterprises: The Emerging Scenario]''. Jaipur: Printwell Publishers, 1988. p. 143</ref> AHTUC responded by issuing a call to celebrate 17 October 1946 as 'Anti-Repression Day'. This appeal resulted in yet intensified repression on behalf of the Nizam regime. On 30 September 1946 police conducted raids on some 150 houses in [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]], Secunderabad and other areas in [[Telangana]] belonging to unions, parties and individual leaders that were taking part in the preparations for the 17 October protests. Large amounts of correspondence of the trade union movement were seized in the raids. Police forces were also deployed in industrial areas to hinder workers from gathering to rally against the actions of the government.<ref name="r1">Ramakrishna Reddy, V. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=f0mh6W7ejL4C&pg=PA535 Economic History of Hyderabad State: Warangal Suba, 1911–1950]''. Delhi: Gian Pub. House, 1987. p. 535</ref>

Police raided the Singareni Collieries Workers Union office in Kothagudem on 12 February 1947. Workers rallied to protest the leaders of the union and help them escape. In total, 20 workers were arrested. They were sentenced to six months' imprisonment each. In the coming months the main leaders of the union were captured and jailed, and the union office was shut down.<ref name="a1"/>

==Resistance struggle==
As the Nizam declared Hyderabad as an independent state in September 1947, Makhdoom Mohiuddin was one of the signatories of a joint declaration of the Communist Party, [[Andhra Maha Sabha]] and the AHTUC calling for armed insurrection against the Nizam's rule for the integration of Hyderabad in the [[Dominion of India|Indian Union]] (Mohiuddin signed on behalf of AHTUC). [[Telangana rebellion|Armed struggle]] began in [[Telangana]].<ref>''Mainstream Weekly''. ''[http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article2341.html Relevance of the Telangana Armed Struggle]''</ref><ref>''New Age''. ''[http://www.newageweekly.com/2010/09/telangana-in-mess-confusion-deepens-by.html Telangana in Mess, Confusion deepens] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110912091443/http://www.newageweekly.com/2010/09/telangana-in-mess-confusion-deepens-by.html |date=12 September 2011 }}''</ref>

In December 1948 the municipal workers union affiliated to AHTUC, led by Amarnath Burman, went on strike.<ref>Radhakrishna Sarma, Mukkamala, K. D. Abhyankar, and S. G. Moghe. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=6kduAAAAMAAJ History of Hyderabad District, 1879–1950 A.D., Yugabda 4981–5052]''. Hyderabad: Bharatiya Itihasa Sankalana Samiti, 1987. p. 93</ref>

==People's Democratic Front==
In 1950 the AHTUC was one of the founding organizations of the [[People's Democratic Front (Hyderabad)|People's Democratic Front]].<ref>Binani, G. D., and T. V. Rama Rao. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=2b9NOnb8WigC India at a Glance]''. Bombay [usw.]: Orient Longmans, 1954. p. 127</ref>

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