In 1920 AITUC (All India Trade Union Congress) was formed in Bombay. It was a broad based organisation. It had diverse ideologies. The main ideological groups were the communists (S.A. Dange, M.N. Roy), moderates (M. Joshi, V.V. Giri) and nationalists (Lala Lajpat Rai, Jawahar Lal Nehru) too. Formation of AITUC made the colonial government more cautiousin dealing withlabour. By mid 1920's AITUC had 200 unions affiliated to it and its membership was around 2,50,000.