Labour Gazette Vol. II, No. 9, May 1923

Abstract

May 1923. THIS MONTH IN BRIEF: Late Sir Narayan Chandavarkar. COST OF LIVING: April 1923. PRICES: Wholesale prices, Apr 1923 (Bombay); Comparative retail food prices (Bombay, Karachi, Ahmedabad and Sholapur); Indian and English price levels. WAGES AND HOURS OF LABOUR: Index numbers and wages; Agricultural wages enquiry; Wages, Jamaica; Short time in the cotton industry; Short time in Bombay; Employment of half-timers. SOME FEATURES OF THE YEAR’S TRADE. WORKING CLASS EXPENDITURE: Deaths by occupation. HOUSING: Housing, Bombay; Enquiry into house-rents. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES: Industrial disputes, Bombay (Apr 1923); Ahmedabad strike; Industrial disputes, India; Conciliation and arbitration; Accidents and prosecutions. LABOUR CONDITIONS: Indian labour in Natal and Jamaica; Indian labour offices. LABOUR LEGISLATION: Indian Mines Act, 1923. CONFERENCES AND COMMITTEES: International Labour Conference, 1923; League of Nations; Trade union conference, Bombay; Questions in the legislature; Labour schools, Ahmedabad. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD: Japan, China, Romania, Mexico, Chile, Java. BOOKS RECEIVED. STATISTICAL TABLES: Cost of living, Bombay; Factory accidents, Apr 1923; Wholesale market prices (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale price index, Bombay; Retail food prices, Bombay (July 1914, Mar and Apr 1923); Comparative retail food prices, Mar and Apr 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, Apr 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).