Labour Gazette Vol. LIV, No. 5, January 1975

Abstract

January 1975. Month in brief: CPI for working class; Industrial disputes. Current notes: Major pension reforms cleared to white house-30 million workers affected by measure; Pension bill praised as ‘landmark’; Meany sees new inequity in wage ‘Guidelines’ plan-cites need of workers to up pay; Labour collective bargaining settlement, first 6 months 1974; Labour asks action on no-fault plan; Jute industry-Nationalisation ruled out; EPF Act extended; Wage board for non-journalists; ILO chief to visit India; Sick Mills Bill passed. Articles, Reports, Enquiries etc: Gandhiji and labour movement (G. Ramanuram). Notifications under labour laws. CPI (Bombay, Sholapur, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Naded, Jalgaon, Poona; for certain industrial centres; & on base of 1944). Labour Intelligence: Industrial relations, Maharashtra (Sept); Industrial disputes (Sept). Labour literature. Statistics: Dearness allowance.