Labour Gazette Vol. LIII, No. 3, November 1973

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November 1973. Month in brief. Current notes: National arbitration promotion board reconstituted; New pattern of PF investment; Wage rates for forestry works; State board for small scale industries constituted; Maritime industries donate to scarcity fund; Self-employment for graduate and post-graduate doctors; Employees in wooden photo or picture frame industry-Minimum wages fixed; Asian labour ministers’ meet concludes; All India average CPI for Industrial workers (On base 1960=100), Aug 1973. Articles, Reports, Enquiries etc: Promotions and increments (D. V. Rahalkar). Notifications under labour laws. Labour legislation: Industrial Disputes (Maharashtra Amendment) Act 1973; Maharashtra Mathadi, Hamal and other Manual Workers 1973. CPI (Bombay, Sholapur, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Naded, Jalgaon, Poona; for certain industrial centres; & on base of 1944). Labour Intelligence: Industrial relations, Maharashtra (Aug); Industrial disputes (Jul); Important industrial disputes (July); Absenteeism Statistics – Cotton trade (Aug); Night shifts in Cotton mills (Sept) & Labour turnover (Aug); Trade Unions Act, Maharashtra (Sept); State Insurance Scheme (non-medical side, Sept; medical side, May); Fatal accidents and industrial diseases, Maharashtra (Sept); Employment situation, Maharashtra (Aug); Textile employment (decasualization) Scheme (Sept). Labour literature. Statistics: Employment through employment exchange & decasualization scheme; Industrial disputes (July); Agricultural wages (urban/rural), 1973; CPO for low paid wokres in different mofussil centres in Andhra and Madras States, Aug and Sept, 1973.