Labour Gazette Vol. III, No. 5, January 1924

Abstract

January 1924. THE MONTH IN BRIEF. COST OF LIVING. WAGES: Dec. 1923; Bombay 1923; Wages and Cost Living of Estate labourers in Ceylon, April to May 1923. PRICES: Wholesale prices in Bombay, Dec. 1923; Wholesale prices, 1923; Comparative retail prices (Bombay, Karachi, Ahmedabad, Sholapur, Poona); Asian price levels (Java, Shanghai); Gold and prices. SECURITIES INDEX NUMBER. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES: Bombay Presidency, Dec. 1923; Bombay Presidency, 1923; G.I.P. Railway Workmen’s Strike; Bombay Mill-Hands’ Bonus; Industrial Disputes, Madras. TRADE UNIONS: Bombay Provincial Trade Union Conference-Deputation to H.E. the Governor; AlTUC, Calcutta; All-India Liberal Federation Proceedings. FACTORIES: Accidents and Prosecutions in the Presidency, Dec. 1923; Factory Inspection in Bombay; Labour in Bihar and Orissa, 1922; General Principles for the Organisation of Factory Inspection; Medical Inspection of Factories. LABOUR CONDITIONS: Indian Student-Apprentices in England; Labour in British Guiana; Labour Conditions at Sea. INDUSTRIAL WELFARE: Welfare Work in Mills, Bombay; Housing in Bombay-Development Chawls; Consumption of Liquor in Presidency; Unemployment in Singapore and Great Britain. WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION: Workmen’s Compensation Act in Great Britain, 1923 and in the US. MISCELLANEOUS: Employers’ Association, Bombay; Increased Customs Duties and Wholesale Index; Indian Industrial Expansion; International Labour Conference 6th session; Statistics of Migration in the Union of South Africa. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. STATISTICAL TABLES: Cost of Living Index (India, Foreign Countries); Retail Food Index (India, Foreign Countries); Bombay Cost of Living Index; Wholesale Market Prices (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale Price Index Numbers (Bombay); Retail Food Prices, Bombay (July 1914, Nov and Dec 1923); Retail Food Prices, Nov and Dec 1923 (Bombay, Karachi, Ahmedabad, Sholapur and Poona); Index numbers of wholesale prices (India, Foreign Countries); Securities Index; Factory accidents (Dec 1923); Cotton Spinning Returns (yarn and woven goods); Principal Trade Disputes, 1923. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. CHARTS: Cost of living, Bombay; Monsoon progress, 1923; Securities index; Rainfall, Jun to Nov, 1922; Wholesale prices (India, foreign countries); Cost of living (India, foreign countries); Exchange rate, Bombay; Wholesale food and non-food prices, Bombay; Strikes, Presidency.