Labour Gazette Vol VI, No. 5, January 1927

Abstract

January 1927. MONTH IN BRIEF. COST OF LIVING: Comparison with other countries; Wholesale and retail prices. LABOUR INTELLIGENCE: Disputes, Presidency; Working class cost of living; Workmen’s compensation; Accidents and prosecutions; Employment situation, Dec 1926; Labour news, Ahmedabad; Agricultural outlook, Presidency; Housing of Labour, India; Committee of education and industry; England and Wales; Industrial peace, UK; Family allowances; Unemployment insurance, UK; Labour in British Malaya; Intl. Labour Conference; Problem of over-population; Protection of women, Japan; Industrial and labour conditions, Iraq; Income and the family; Welfare work, Presidency. BOOKS AND REPORTS REVIEWS. CURRENT PERIODICALS. Housing (rural workers) Act, UK. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD. STATISTICAL TABLES: Principal trade disputes, Dec 1926; Factory accidents (Bombay, Ahmedabad, Karachi, other centres), Dec 1925; Cotton Spinning Returns (yarn, woven goods); Cost of living index numbers, Bombay; Wholesale market prices (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale prices index, Bombay; Cost of living index (India, foreign countries); Wholesale prices and retail food numbers (India, foreign countries); Retail food prices, Nov and Dec 1926.