Labour Gazette Vol VIII, No. 7, March 1929

Abstract

March 1929. MONTH IN BRIEF. COST OF LIVING: Mar 1929; Comparison with other countries; Wholesale and retail prices. LABOUR INTELLIGENCE: Industrial disputes, Presidency; Bombay Oil Companies’ employees’ Union, Bombay; Employment situation, Feb 1929; Agricultural outlook, Presidency; Labour news, Ahmedabad; Workmen’s Compensation Act; Definition of a factory (oil mill); Prosecutions under the Indian Factories Act, Feb 1929; Social legislation, Poland; Questions in the legislature; Emigration from Bombay, 1927; Forced labour, India; Labour statistics, British Columbia (Canada); Eighth Soviet Trade Union Congress; Hours of work (Germany); New Conciliation and Arbitration Act, Australia; Workmen’s Compensation in UK, 1927; Employment of women in Japanese industry; Minimum wage rates, UK; New index number of wages; Ministry of labour cost of living figures; Fawcett Committee (Report summary); Seamen in Bombay; Old-age pensions, South Africa; Trade Unions, Presidency; Industrial disputes, India; Arbitration and conciliation. CURRENT PERIODICALS. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD. STATISTICAL TABLES: Industrial disputes, Feb 1929; Cotton Spinning Returns (yarn, woven goods); Wholesale market prices (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale prices, Bombay; Cost of living index (India, foreign countries); Wholesale prices and retail food numbers (India, foreign countries); Retail food prices, Jan and Feb 1929; Working class cost of living, Bombay.