Labour Gazette Vol. III, No. 2, October 1923

Abstract

October 1923. MONTH IN BRIEF: Consumption of salt; Women labour, Bengal. COST OF LIVING: Sept 1923; Cost of living index, Bombay; Construction of cost of living index; Cost of living index; Wholesale prices, Bombay; Comparative retail prices (Bombay, Karachi, Ahmedabad, Sholapur and Poona); Bombay clerical wages; Wages in the Central Provinces and Behar; Wages in principal industries, India. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES: Bombay, other provinces; Accidents and prosecutions; A union for clerks; Trade unions, UK; Provincial trade union conference; Japan and the Geneva conventions; Employment of women in mines, Japan; General principles of factory inspection; Welfare work in mills; Untouchable class; Indian national baby week; Social workers’ conference; Humidity in Indian cotton mills; Industrial disputes, women workers; Women factory inspectors; Labour, Malay states. STATISTICAL TABLES: Factory accidents, Sept 1923 (Bombay, Ahmedabad, Karachi, other centres); Wholesale market prices (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale prices index, (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale prices index, Bombay; Retail food prices, Aug and Sept 1923; Wholesale prices (India, foreign countries); Principal trade disputes, Sept 1923; Cotton spinning returns (yarn, woven goods). CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD. BOOKS RECEIVED. CHARTS: Cost of living, Bombay; Monsoon progress, 1922-1923; Rainfall, Jun to Nov 1922; Wholesale prices (India, foreign countries); Retail food prices, Bombay; Cost of living indexes (India, foreign countries); Imports and exports of merchandise, India; Exchange rate, Bombay; Wholesale food and non-food prices, Bombay; Strikes, Bombay.