Labour Gazette Vol VII, No. 10, June 1928

Abstract

June 1928. MONTH IN BRIEF. COST OF LIVING: June 1928; Comparison with other countries; Wholesale and retail prices. LABOUR INTELLIGENCE: Industrial disputes, Presidency; Employment situation, May; Prosecutions under the Factories Act, May; The “Tukaram” Disaster-Crew cannot recover compensation; Apprentices in textile industry; Mortality rates, India; British textile trades; Middle-class cost of living; Factories in Baroda, 1926-27; Wages and hours in German textile trades, 1927; Seven-hour day, Russia; Registered trade unions, Punjab; Unemployment, USA; Family budgets, Moscow; Social legislation, Japan; Work councils, Germany; Experiment in vocational guidance; Restriction of foreign labour, Greece; Indian Mines (Amendment) Bill; Strikes in China, 1925 and 1926; Workmen’s compensation statistics, 1926. BOOK AND REPORT REVIEWS. CURRENT PERIODICALS. Labour legislation, USA. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD. STATISTICAL TABLES: Trade disputes, May 1928 ; Cotton Spinning Returns (yarn, woven goods); Wholesale market prices (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale prices, Bombay; Wholesale prices and retail food index (India, foreign countries); Retail food prices, Apr and May 1928.