62 SOCIAL SCIENTIST demanded scrapping of the Third Pay Commission Report. They have reiterated their demand for fixing the need-based minimum wage at the bilateral level so that they can face the continued erosion of real wages as long as the Government does not adopt a firm income and price policy. The simmering discontent, as it is surfacing in the resolve of the Post and Telegraph employees, Railwaymen, Defence employees and others will, in all probability, develop into mass struggles in the days to come demonstrating 'unity in action5 of the vast masses of Central, state and local Government employees and the working class in general. PREMENDRA 1 Twentyninth Session of the AITUC, AITUC Publication, p 58. 2 Report of the Third Pay Commission, 1973, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, Vol I, chapter I, p 1. » Ibid.,? 55. 4 Ibid.,p6Q. 6 The Economic Times, (editorial) June 23, 1973. 6 Ibid. 7 "Budget Highlights", Social Scientist, April 1973, p 47. 8 Ibid.,? 52.