Dhaka, May 1 -- Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Dr. Shafiqur Rahman has said country's industries will not progress if workers do not get their fair rights and if workers do not work, industries will lag behind.

"The relationship between the employers and workers will be as the sign of brotherhood, not of enmity . . . if the workers survive, the country's industries will survive, and if the industries survive, the workers will survive ultimately," he told a gathering at Paltan on Thursday.

Jamaat Amir was speaking as the chief guest at a 'mammoth workers' rally' organized by the Bangladesh Workers' Welfare Federation on the occasion of 'International Workers' Day' at Paltan intersection here this morning.

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