Labour Gazette Vol. II, No. 8, April 1923

Abstract

April 1923. THIS MONTH IN BRIEF: Late Mr P. J. Mead. COST OF LIVING: Mar 1923. PRICES: Mar 1923, Bombay; Comparative retail food prices (Bombay, Karachi, Ahmedabad and Sholapur); High prices, Germany. WAGES AND HOURS OF LABOUR: National Minimum wage, discussion in parliament; Wages to peons, Bombay; Hours of labour, double shifts in Bombay mills. LABOUR CONDITIONS: Bombay millowner’s Association, annual meeting; Labour investigator, Ahmedabad; Labour, Madras. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES: Industrial disputes, Bombay (Mar 1923); General strike, Ahmedabad; India, 1922. CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION: Compulsory arbitration, Norway; Employment, railways. TRADE UNIONS: Railway trade unions; AITUC. ACCIDENTS: Parbelia coal disaster; Factory accidents. LABOUR LEGISLATION: Intl. Labour Agreements; Indian emigration to Mauritius. WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION ACT, 1923. INDUSTRIAL WELFARE: Employment of women and children, Russia. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD: UK, South Africa, France, Spain, Hungary, Japan. BOOKS RECEIVED. STATISTICAL TABLES: Cost of living, Bombay; Factory accidents, Mar 1923; Wholesale market prices (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale price index, Bombay (Jan 1920); Retail food prices, Bombay (July 1914, Feb and Mar 1923); Comparative retail food prices, Feb and Mar 1923 (Bombay, Karachi, Ahmedabad, Sholapur and Poona); Wholesale prices (India, foreign prices); Cost of living index (India, foreign prices); Retail food index (India, foreign prices); Principal trade disputes, Mar 1923; Cotton spinning returns (yarn, woven goods). CHARTS: Cost of living, Bombay; Monsoon progress, 1922; Wholesale prices (India, foreign countries); Food prices, Bombay; Cost of living (foreign countries); Imports and exports of merchandise, India; Rate of exchange, Bombay; Wholesale food and non-food prices, Bombay; Strikes, Bombay; Rainfall, India (Jun to Nov 1922).