Labour Gazette Vol. II, No. 11, July 1923

Abstract

July 1923. MONTH IN BRIEF. COST OF LIVING: June 1923; Comparison of cost of living (India and USA); Asia; Ireland. PRICES: Wholesale prices, Bombay (Jun 1923); Comparative retail food prices (Bombay, Karachi, Ahmedabad, Sholapur and Poona); Food-grains in Bombay 80 years ago. WAGES AND HOURS OF LABOUR: Wages in mines, Bombay; Short time in the Bombay mills; Annual bonus, 1923. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES: Bombay, Jun 1923; Dispute in Burma; Ahmedabad strike. LABOUR CONDITIONS: Labour in coal mines; Production of coal; Employment of women in mines; Indian labour in Fiji. WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION: Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923; Compensation, UK; Trade boards; Budget of Intl. Labour Office; India and the Intl. Labour Office. FACTORIES: Accidents and prosecutions; Variations in efficiency in cotton weaving; Spinning industry in Japan; Collection of labour statistics; Japanese factory law. INDUSTRIAL WELFARE: Honorary correspondents; Employment of women and children; Works committee meeting. QUESTIONS IN THE LEGISLATURE. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD: UK, South Africa, Japan, Russia. BOOKS RECEIVED. STATISTICAL TABLES: Factory accidents, June 1923; Wholesale market prices (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale prices index, Bombay; Retail food prices, Bombay (July 1914, May and June 1923); Retail food prices, Jun 1923 (Bombay, Karachi, Ahmedabad, Sholapur and Poona); Wholesale prices (Bombay, Karachi); Cost of living index (India, foreign prices); Retail food index (India, foreign prices); Principal trade disputes, June 1923; Cotton spinning returns (yarn, woven goods). CHARTS: Cost of living, Bombay; Monsoon progress, 1922, 1923; Rainfall, Jun to Nov, 1922; Wholesale prices (India, foreign countries); Imports and exports of merchandise, India; Exchange rate, Bombay; Wholesale food and non-food prices, Bombay; Strikes, Bombay.