Labour Gazette Vol. III, No. 3, November 1923

Abstract

November 1923. MONTH IN BRIEF. COST OF LIVING: October, 1923; Intl. Labour Conference; Securities Index Number; Wholesale prices, Bombay; Comparative retail prices (Bombay, Karachi, Ahmedabad, Sholapur and Poona); Bombay clerical wages; Wages in municipalities. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES: Bombay, Oct 1923; Trade union membership, UK; Trade Union funds; Ahmedabad millowners’ association; Postmen’s conference; Social workers’ conference; Cotton industry conference, UK; Intl. Labour Conference; Welfare work in mills; Welfare in the central provinces; Humidity in Indian cotton mills; Industrial diseases; Unemployment relief, UK; Accidents and prosecutions; New boiler regulations; Lancashire cotton industry; Factory labour, UK; Cotton mills, China; Labour legislation, China; Workmen’s compensation; Consumption of salt; Russian workers’ family budgets; Maternity benefits in Spain. STATISTICAL TABLES: Factory accidents, Oct 1923 (Bombay, Ahmedabad, Karachi, other centres); Wholesale market prices (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale prices index (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale prices index, Bombay; Retail food prices, Sept and Oct 1923; Wholesale prices (India, foreign countries); Principal trade disputes, Oct 1923; Cotton spinning returns (yarn, woven goods). CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD. BOOKS RECEIVED. CHARTS: Cost of living, Bombay; Monsoon progress, 1922-1923; Rainfall, Jun to Nov 1922; Wholesale prices (India, foreign countries); Retail food prices, Bombay; Cost of living indexes (India, foreign countries); Imports and exports of merchandise, India; Exchange rate, Bombay; Wholesale food and non-food prices, Bombay; Strikes, Bombay.