“Labourers, Drivers, Peons or Clerks………….Comrade Bala Tampoe was Everybody’s Hero”
BY PRASAD GUNEWARDENE Three decades ago when I was assigned to cover the trade union rounds with my colleague D. B. S. Jeyaraj for ‘The island’ newspaper, by the then Editor, Gamini Weerakoon, we both were in regular contact with trade union leaders like BalaTampoe, Alavi Moulana, Sirinal De Mel and Gamini Lokuge to name […]