Labour Gazette Vol. II, No. 12, August 1923

Abstract

August 1923. THE MONTH IN BRIEF. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE. COST OF LIVING: July 1923. PRICES: Wholesale prices, Bombay, prices falling; Comparative retail food prices (Bombay, Karachi, Ahmedabad, Sholapur and Poona); Index numbers of prices; A new wholesale index number. INDIAN LABOUR IN BRITISH GUIANA. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES: Bombay, July 1923; Dispute in Madras; Questions in legislature; Strikes and gratuity payments. WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION: Seamen’s war risk compensation; Workmen’s compensation-Appointment of Commissioners; Workmen’s Breach of Contract Act. TRADE UNIONS: Union rights in Hungary; Women and the German trade unions; Bombay telegraph workmen’s union; Questions in the legislature. WAGES AND HOURS OF LABOUR: Agricultural wages; Wage cuts, Bombay; Hours of employment. FACTORIES: Accidents and prosecutions; Factory law in Japan; Labour in Madras; Industrial accidents; Factory inspection; Questions in the legislature; Indian Factories Act-Exemptions. LABOUR CONDITIONS: Industrial peace, UK; Labour and industry, China. FAMILY BUDGETS: Questions in the legislature. HOUSING: Industrial housing, Bombay; Questions in the legislature. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD: UK, Germany, France, Poland, China, Canada. BOOKS RECEIVED. STATISTICAL TABLES: Cost of living index (India, foreign countries); Retail food index (India, foreign countries); Cost of living, Bombay; Factory accidents, Jul 1923; Wholesale market prices (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale prices index, Bombay; Retail food prices, Bombay (Jul 1914, Jun and Jul 1923); Retail food prices, Jun and Jul 1923 (Bombay, Karachi, Ahmedabad, Sholapur and Poona); Wholesale prices (Bombay, Karachi); Principal trade disputes, Jul 1923; Cotton spinning returns (yarn, woven goods).