Labour Gazette Vol. III, No. 10, June 1924

Abstract

June 1924. THE MONTH IN BRIEF. COST OF LIVING: May 1924; UK; Ahmedabad. PRICES: Wholesale Prices Bombay (May 1924); Comparative Retail Prices (Bombay, Karachi, Ahmedabad, Sholapur and Poona); Securities Index Number. WAGES: Wage Census in Cotton Mill Industry, Aug 1923; Wages in Agriculture in Bombay; Census of Industrial Wages in India. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES: Bombay, May 1924; Other provinces, Madras; UK. TRADE UNIONS: Bombay, quarter ending June 1924; Trade Unionism in Australia; Danish Trade Union Movement; Amalgamation in UK Trade Unions. LABOUR LEGISLATION: Industrial Disputes, Proposed new legislation. LABOUR CONDITIONS: Assam; Child Labour in France. INDUSTRIAL WELFARE: Welfare Work, Tata Group of Mills; Hospital Accommodation in Presidency Towns; White Lead in Painting. FACTORIES: Accidents and prosecutions, May 1924; General principles for the organisation of factory inspection; Delhi Boiler Explosion. MISCELLANEOUS: Seamen’s Recruitment; Questions in the legislature; Union of South Africa, Report on Census of Production, 1921-22; Emigration to British Guiana; World’s Cotton Crop; Working women. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. STATISTICAL TABLES: Bombay Cost of Living Index; Cost of Living Index number (India, foreign countries); Wholesale Market Prices (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale Prices Index Numbers in Bombay; Retail Prices of Food Articles in Apr and May 1924 (Bombay, Ahmedabad, Sholapur and Poona); Index Number of Wholesale Prices (India, foreign companies); Securities Index; Factory accidents, May 1924; Principal trade Unions in Bombay presidency; Income and expenditure of Principal Trade Unions in Bombay; Cotton Spinning returns (yarn, woven goods); Principal Trade Disputes, May 1924. 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.