Narayan Malhar Joshi was an Indian trade union leader and the follower of Gopal Krishna Gokhale. Joshi got involved in labour issues and initiated the All India Trade Union Congress in the year 1920 along with the Lala Lajpat Rai. Malhar Joshi was the general secretary of AITUC from the year’s 1925 to 1929 and from 1940 to 1948. In the year 1931, he left AITUC and established the All India Trade Union Federation. The AITUC (All India Trade Union Congress) is the oldest trade union federations in India. It is linked with the Communist Party of India. As per the provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, AITUC had a membership of 14.2 million in the year 2013. The AITUC is governed by a body headed by the National President Ramendra Kumar & General Secretary Amarjeet Kaur, both the politician affiliated with the Communist Party of India. The AITUC is a founder member of the World Federation of Trade Unions. Presently, its institutional records are part of the Archives at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, at Teen Murti House, Delhi.