Trade Union and Communist Party MCQs

672. Who among the following was the first leader to organize the labour movement in India?
(A) B.P. Wadia
(B) Lala Lajpat Rai
(C) N.M. Lokhande
(D) N.G. Ranga
Ans: (C)
673. The first Trade Union was founded in India in the year 1918 by
(A) N.M. Joshi 
(B) B.P. Wadia
(C) V.V. Giri 
(D) S.A. Dange
Ans: (B)
674. Who was the first President of the All India Trade Union Congress?
(A) B.T. Ranade
(B) Satya Bhakta
(C) Lala Lajpat Rai
(D) N.M. Joshi
Ans: (C)
675. When was the All India Trade Union Congress established in Bombay?
(A) 1920 
(B) 1925
(C) 1929 
(D) 1935
Ans: (A)
676. Who of the following founded the Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
(C) N.M. Joshi
(D) J.B. Kriplani
Ans: (A)
677. Who among the following had presided over the All India Trade Union Congress held at Nagpur in 1929?
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Acharya Narendra Dev
(C) Subhash Chandra Bose
(D) Yusuf Meherally
Ans: (A)
678. The first session of the All India Trade Union Congress held in Bombay in 1920 was presided over by
(A) Feroz Shah Mehta
(B) V.V. Giri
(C) Lala Lajpat Rai
(D) N.M. Joshi
Ans: (C)
679. Who was the first Indian to be a member of Communist International?
(A) M.N. Roy
(B) Muzaffar Ahmad
(C) S.S. Dange
(D) None of the above
Ans: (A)
680. The Trade Disputes Act of 1929 provided for
(A) the participation of workers in the management of industries
(B) arbitrary powers to the management to quell industrial disputes
(C) an intervention by the British Court in the event of a trade dispute
(D) a system of tribunals and a ban on strikes
Ans: (D)
681. Kanpur conspiracy case was against the leaders of
(A) Khilafat Movement
(B) Non-Co-operation Movement
(C) Communist Movement
(D) Revolutionary Movement
Ans: (C)
682. The militant phase of the trade union movement in India was
(A) 1939-45 
(B) 1926-39
(C) 1918-26 
(D) 1914-18
Ans: (B)
683. Who formed the Radical Democratic Party in 1940?
(A) Indrasen
(B) M.N. Roy
(C) Somendra Nath Tagore
(D) Shachindra Nath Sanyal
Ans: (B)
684. In October 1920, who of the following headed a group of Indians gathered at Tashkent to set up a Communist Party of India?
(A) H.K. Sarkar 
(B) P.C. Joshi
(C) M.C. Chagla 
(D) M.N. Roy
Ans: (D)
685. What is the name of the party founded by Saumyendra Nath Tagore?
(A) Indian Bolshevik Party
(B) Revolutionary Communist Party
(C) Bolshevik Leninist Party
(D) Radical Democratic Party
Ans: (B)