Labour Gazette Vol VII, No. 6, February 1928

Abstract

February 1928. MONTH IN BRIEF. COST OF LIVING: Feb 1928; Comparison with other countries; Wholesale and retail prices. LABOUR INTELLIGENCE: Industrial disputes, Presidency; Employment situation, Jan 1928; Wholesale market prices; Questions in the legislature; Workmen’s Compensation Act; Prosecutions under the Factories Act, January; Nagpur Textile Union; Artificial humidification in cotton weaving effect on sickness rates; Employment, wages, hours of labour and trade disputes, UK, 1927; Workmen’s compensation, UK, 1926; Minimum wage, France; Labour values, England; Labour, China; Arbitration, China; Prohibition of trade union congresses, Italy; Permanent court of international justice; Problem of the intellectual worker; Census of industries, Canada; Wages, Sweden; Family Budget Enquiry, Japan; Women workers, Japan; Workers’ credit Association, Japan; Employment of children, Japan; Indian Factories during 1926. CURRENT PERIODICALS. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD. STATISTICAL TABLES: Trade disputes, Jan 1928; 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, Dec 1927 and Jan 1928.