Labour Gazette Vol. III, No. 4, December 1923

Abstract

December 1923. MONTH IN BRIEF: Hospital accommodation, Bombay; Settlement of industrial disputes; International Labour Office. COST OF LIVING: Nov 1923; Wholesale prices, Bombay; Effect of increased customs duties on the wholesale index; Comparative retail prices (Bombay, Karachi, Ahmedabad, Sholapur and Poona). SECURITIES INDEX NUMBER: Its construction; Currency and exchange; Comparative real wages in London and certain capital cities; Confederation of trade unions (Denmark). INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES: Bombay, Other provinces, India, UK. TRADE UNIONS: Bombay, quarter ending Dec 1923; Bombay Tenants’ Association; All-India Social Workers’ Conference; Fifth Intl. Labour Conference; Humidity in Bombay Cotton Mills; Labour, Central Provinces and Berar; Labour, Burma; Welfare work in mills; Density of population, Bombay and London; Labour department, Madras; Immigrant labour, Assam; Workmen’s compensation, UK; Distribution of London population by workplace; Trade union congress. STATISTICAL TABLES: Wholesale market prices (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale prices index, Bombay; Retail food prices, Oct and Nov 1923; Securities index; Factory accidents, Nov 1923 (Bombay, Ahmedabad, Karachi, other centres); Principal trade unions, Bombay, income and expenditure; Cotton spinning returns (yarn, woven goods); Principal trade disputes, Nov 1923. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. CHARTS: Cost of living, Bombay; Monsoon progress, 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.