Labour Gazette Vol. II, No. 10, June 1923

Abstract

June 1923. MONTH IN BRIEF: Birthday honours. COST OF LIVING: May 1923. PRICES: Wholesale prices, Bombay (May 1923); Comparative retail prices; “Prosperity” of Germany; Asian price levels. WAGES AND HOURS OF LABOUR: Wages (Poona, Madras); Housing and wages; Labour legislation, Canada (1922); Short time in Bombay mills. FAMILY BUDGETS: Criticisms of the reports; Working class expenditure. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES: Industrial disputes, Bombay (May 1923); Ahmedabad strike; Disputes, Madras. CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION: Amendment of the Canadian Act; Compulsory Arbitration, Norway. LABOUR CONDITIONS: First labour census, Japan; Ceylon census, 1921. TRADE UNIONS: Bombay, second quarter of 1923. EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION: Passenger traffic between UK and India, 1922. FACTORIES: Factory legislation, Japan; Indian Factories Act; Accidents and prosecutions; Questions in the legislature. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD: UK, Japan, China, Geneva. BOOKS RECEIVED. STATISTICAL TABLES: Cost of living, Bombay; Comparative retail food prices, Mar and Apr 1923 (Bombay, Karachi, Ahmedabad, Sholapur and Poona); Principal trade unions, Bombay, income and expenditure; Wholesale market prices (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale price index, Bombay; Retail food prices, Bombay (July 1914, Apr and May 1923); Wholesale prices (India, foreign prices); Cost of living index (India, foreign prices); Retail food index (India, foreign prices); Principal trade disputes, May 1923; Factory accidents, May 1923; Cotton spinning returns (yarn, woven goods). CHARTS: Cost of living, Bombay; Monsoon progress, 1922; Wholesale prices (India, foreign countries); Retail food prices; Cost of living (foreign countries); Imports and exports of merchandise, India; Exchange rate, Bombay; Wholesale food and non-food prices, Bombay; Strikes, Bombay; Rainfall, India (Jun to Nov 1922).