P D Mello

P D'Mello was a prominent trade union leader of the Bombay Dock Workers Union. He joined the trade union movement in the year 1946 and initially focussed on the dock and port workers but later also mobilised the municipal employees, BEST workers and workers in the hotel industry. He was also a part of the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement. He was one of the founding members of the Radical Democratic Party which he left to join the Praja Socialist Party and finally the Socialist Party. As a representative of the dock workers he was a Trustee of the Bombay Port Trust. In the year 1952 he was arrested under Preventive Detention Act and was kept at Nashik jail for one and a half year.

He died on 21st March, 1958 at the age of 40 years in Calcutta where he had gone for a trade union meeting and was buried at the Sewri cemetery.