Labour Gazette Vol. V, No. 5, January 1926

Abstract

January 1926. MONTH IN BRIEF. COST OF LIVING: Comparison with other countries; Wholesale and retail prices; Securities index number. LABOUR INTELLIGENCE: Disputes, Presidency; Cotton industry, Japan; Working class cost of living; Industrial housing, Bombay; Accidents and prosecutions; Workmen’s compensation; Two more Bombay mills to close; Bombay textile labour union; Demands of labour; AITUC; Interim report of the Indian delegation; Labour education, Belgium; Australian labour statistics; Industrial psychology and fatigue; Report, Chief inspector of factories, Tasmania; Labour, Queensland; Hard work and length of life (life expectancy); Production costs, UK and Italy; Method of payment of wages; Middle class families in Bombay. BOOK REVIEWS AND REPORTS. CURRENT PERIODICALS. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD. STATISTICAL TABLES: Principal trade disputes, Dec 1925; 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 1925.