Landlord as Labour Leader! C V Subba Rao ENTRUSTING all work, barring actual mining, to private parties in state-owned coal mines seems to be an established practice all over India (see, for instance, "Trade Union Mafia in Dhanbad" by Arun Sinha, Indian Express, January 23, 1979). But the case of Singareni collieries in the Telengana region of Andhra is distinguished by the presence of big landlords controlling labourers.