Labour Gazette Vol XXIX No 8 April 1950

Abstract

April 1950. MONTH IN BRIEF. CURRENT NOTES: Indian Labour Conference; Labour Relations Bill; ILO Asian regional conference, Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon; 9-man body to guard trade union rights. COST OF LIVING: Bombay, Ahmedabad, Sholapur, Jalgaon, Industrial workers, Feb 1950. SPECIAL ARTICLES: Mofussil Labour and Wages in Bombay State, 1948-49; Working class cost of living index in Bombay. LABOUR INTELLIGENCE: Industrial disputes, Presidency; Employment situation, Feb 1950; Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923; Night shifts in cotton mills, Presidency; Indian Trade Unions Act, 1926; Bombay Industrial Relations Act, 1946; Trade conditions, Ahmedabad; Bombay Industrial Relations Act, 1946; Dissolution of the standardisation committee for the cotton textile industry; Housing advisory committee. Foreign: Labour organisation in Canada, 1948. CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES ACT, 1947. ADJUDICATION AWARDS: 1. Messrs. S.S. Rajgor, Essential Oil and Aromatic Chemical Co., Gum Dept., Bombay and 14 others; 2. (i) Lever Brothers (India) Ltd., Bombay, (ii) Lever Brothers (India) Ltd., Soap factory, Bombay, (iii) Hindustan Vanaspati Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Bombay. BOOKS, PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS. CHARTS: Principal trade unions, Presidency, 1 Oct 1949; Industrial disputes, Feb 1949; Industrial disputes (Feb 1950); Retail food prices (Jan, Feb 1950); Working class cost of living (Bombay, Ahmedabad, Sholapur, and Jalgaon).