Labour Gazette Vol VII, No. 12, August 1928

Abstract

August 1928. MONTH IN BRIEF. COST OF LIVING: Aug 1928; Comparison with other countries; Wholesale and retail prices. LABOUR INTELLIGENCE: Industrial disputes, Presidency; Sholapur Mill strike; Investigation of industrial relations; Bombay mill strike; Accidents in factory compound; Death from heart disease; Questions in the legislature; Workmen’s Compensation Act; Prosecutions under the Factories Act, July; Employment situation, July; Agricultural outlook, Presidency; Labour news, Ahmedabad; Railwaymen’s congress; International Labour Office; Hours of young persons, UK; A guide to employment; Earnings in manufacturing industries, USA; Profit-sharing and labour co-partnership, 1927; Trade union membership, Various Countries; Intl. Textile Workers’ Congress; Labour courts, Poland; Eleventh Session of the Intl. Labour Conference; Trade unionism, Russia; Agricultural workers, England and Wales; Trade Disputes Bill; Native wages, Bloemfontein (South Africa); Criminal conspiracy in trade disputes; Indian labour, Ceylon; Report of the Royal Commission on agriculture, India; Unemployment, Punjab; Trade unions, Presidency, Industrial unrest, India (railways). BOOK AND REPORT REVIEWS. CURRENT PERIODICALS. Mines, India. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD. STATISTICAL TABLES: Industrial disputes, Jul 1928; Cotton Spinning Returns (yarn, woven goods); 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, Jun and Jul 1928; Working class cost of living, Bombay.