Labour Gazette Vol VIII, No. 4, December 1928

Abstract

December 1928. MONTH IN BRIEF. COST OF LIVING: Dec 1928; Comparison with other countries; Wholesale and retail prices. LABOUR INTELLIGENCE: Industrial disputes, Presidency; Prices in Presidency, 1927-28; Employer situation, Nov; Wages of Indian labourers, Malaya; Prosecutions under Indian Factories Act, Nov; Labour news, Ahmedabad; Agricultural outlook, Presidency; Workmen’s Compensation Act; Reference to High Court-Trade or business of a railway company; Compensation for permanent disability; Workmen’s compensation, UK; Relief works, India; Working hours in Jute Mills, 60-hour week; All-Ceylon Trade Union Congress; Study of economic problems, Japan; Labour in Tanganyika, 1927; Protection of Japanese fishermen; Employment situation, Russia; Unemployment census, Russia; Scientific management; Family budgets, South Africa; Employment, USA; Strikes and lockouts in USA, 1916 to 1927; Emergency relief for Czechoslovak textile workers; Economic policy, Bulgaria; Lower wages but dearer labour, Japan (Comparison with Lancashire); Intl. Labour office; Seamen’s Insurance Bill, Japan; Conditions in Mexican textile industry; Price fixing, Italy; Representation of labour, Municipality; Labour courts, Italy; Standard and cost of living of working classes, Rangoon (Burma); Employment of married women, France; Industrial disputes, India. BOOKS AND REPORTS REVIEWS. CURRENT PERIODICALS. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD. EXCHANGE OF STUDENT EMPLOYEES, UK and France. STATISTICAL TABLES: Cotton Spinning Returns (yarn, woven goods); Industrial disputes, Nov 1928; Wholesale market prices (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale prices, Bombay; Cost of living (India, foreign countries); Wholesale prices and retail food index (India, foreign countries); Retail food prices, Oct and Nov 1928; Working class cost of living, Bombay.