Why Sunday is Holiday-History

 let's see

 

who is the person behind making Sunday a

 

holiday in India

 

 Naren mahadji lakh  

Gandhi

 the father of the trade union

 

movement in India he was born in a poor

 

family from family caste in 1848 in

 

thane maharashtra india in the 17th and

 

18th centuries india was famous for its

 

fine textiles in western countries by

 

buying cloth in india and selling it in

 

europe the East India Company made a

 

huge profit

 

the first textile mill was established

 

in Bombay Maharashtra in 1854 Locke hand

 

worked for some time as a storekeeper in

 

a Bombay textile mill he collected the

 

problems and issues of the working

 

conditions in the factories and the

 

problems faced by the labor he edited

 

the first labor weekly Dean band who

 

friend of the oppressed from 1880 to the

 

end of his life in 1897 he took over the

 

management of team band who which was

 

published from Bombay Naren mahadji Lock

 

handy was a prominent colleague of

 

mahadji o2o4 lay goty Govind Rao folly

 

the 11th of April 1827 to the 28th of

 

November 1890 was an Indian activist

 

thinker social reformer and writer from

 

Maharashtra along with lock hand geo

 

Tyrel also addressed the meetings of the

 

textile workers in Bombay it is

 

significant that before geo tie Rao and

 

his colleagues by lacquer and lock hand

 

tried to organize the peasants and the

 

workers no such attempt was made by any

 

organization to address their grievances

 

Mahatma Forli started the first Indian

 

workers organization Bombay mill hands

 

Association with the help of Shri Naren

 

mukherjee lock handy following us some

 

of the rights mill workers got because

 

of n/m lock handy

 

a weekly holiday on Sunday from

 

millworkers workers should be entitled

 

to half our recess in the afternoon the

 

mill should start working from 6:30 in

 

the morning and close by sunset by the

 

15th of every month the salaries of the

 

workers should be given Narron mahadji

 

lakh handy is remembered not only for

 

ameliorating the working conditions of

 

textile mill hands in the 19th century

 

but also for his courageous initiatives

 

on caste and communist use the

 

government of India issued a post stamp

 

with his photo in 2005.