Labour Gazette Vol. LI, No. 11, July 1972

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July 1972. MONTH IN BRIEF. CURRENT NOTES: Wage Act covers salt pan industry; Minimum wages committee for wooden photo frame industry; Saw milling industry-Committee for minimum wages; Display fair rates conspicuously-Hoteliers to note; Intl. Labour Conference to meet in Geneva from 7 to 27th June; Shops Act relaxed for banks; Intl. Labour Conference elects new governing body; Provide mobile homes for labour, Smt. Jung’s call to builder; Public utility services declared, May 1972; All India Average CPI number for industrial workers on base 1960=100 for May 1970. ARTICLES, REPORTS, ENQUIRIES ETC.: Productivity and labour welfare, by G. Saibaba; Annual report on the CPI for the working classes for Maharashtra state, 1971. OTHER LEGISLATION: Maharashtra Row Cotton (Procurement, processing and marketing) Act, 1971. NOTIFICATIONS UNDER LABOUR LAWS. CPI NUMBERS FOR WORKING CLASS: Bombay, Sholapur, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Nanded, Jalgaon, Poona. CPI for working class for certain industrial centres in India; Index number for Bombay, Sholapur, Jalgaon and Aurangabad on base shifted to 1944=100. LABOUR INTELLIGENCE: Industrial relations, Maharashtra, May 1972; Industrial disputes, Maharashtra, Mar 1972; Industrial disputes, Maharashtra, Mar 1972; Absenteeism Statistics, Apr 1972 (Cotton textile); Night shift in cotton mills, Bombay, May 1972; Labour turnover in cotton mills, Bombay, Apr 1972; Trade Unions Act 1926, Maharashtra, May 1972; Employees State Insurance Scheme, Non-medical/medical, May 1972 and Mar 1972; Fatal Industrial Accidents and industrial diseases, Maharashtra, May 1972; Employment situation, Maharashtra, May 1972; Textile Employment’s (Decasualisation) Scheme, May 1972. LABOUR LITERATURE. STATISTICS: Employment through employment exchange; Employment through Decasualisation Scheme; CPI for low paid employees in different Mofussil Centres in Andhra and Madras State, Apr-May 1972; Dearness allowance for Bombay, Sholapur, Jalgaon, Nagpur and Nanded, CPI for working class; Industrial disputes, Maharashtra, Mar 1972;Statement of agricultural wages (Urban, Rural Areas), Apr 1972.