Labour Gazette Vol. IV, No. 4, December 1924

Abstract

December 1924. THE MONTH IN BRIEF. COST OF LIVING: Dec 1924; Wholesale and retail prices; Security index number. LABOUR INTELLIGENCE: Fortnightly payment of wages; Infant welfare, Bombay; Unemployment among Anglo-Indians. WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION ACT. Purity campaign among the masses; The Indian Cotton-Mill Industry; Unemployment distress, Bombay. ACCIDENTS AND PROSECUTIONS. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES: Bombay; Madras. Labour news from Ahmedabad. Negotiation of issues between masters and men. All-India (incl. Burma) Postal and Royal Mail Service Conference. Rent of Improvement Trust Buildings. ILO. Work of New York State Labour Dept. Industrial disputes in the USA, 1916-1923; Welfare work on an English railway; Maternity cases among women operatives in Bombay Mills. Standard of living of Indian middle classes, Bombay city. Trade Unions, Bombay. WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION ACT. REVIEW OF BOOKS. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD. STATISTICAL TABLES: Principal trade unions, Bombay; Income and expenditure of principal trade unions, Bombay; Nov 1924; Factory accidents, Nov 1924 (Bombay, Ahmedabad, Karachi, other centres); Cotton Spinning Returns (yarn, woven goods); Cost of Living Index, Bombay; Wholesale market prices (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale prices index, Bombay; Cost of living index numbers (India, foreign countries); Retail food prices (Oct and Nov 1924).