Labour Gazette Vol. III, No. 7, March 1924

Abstract

March 1924. THE MONTH IN BRIEF. COST OF LIVING: Index, Feb 1924; UK. PRICES: Wholesale Prices, Bombay (Feb 1924); Comparative Retail Prices (Bombay, Karachi, Ahmedabad, Sholapur and Poona); Securities Index Number. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES: Presidency, Feb 1924; Textile Industry and Lockout; Bonus Dispute Committee’s Report; Disputes in other Provinces, Madras; Legislation in UK. CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION: Conciliation and Arbitration in Canada. TRADE UNIONS: Bombay Presidency, March 1924; North-Western Railway Union, Karachi. CONFERENCES: Bombay Millowners’ Association, Annual Meeting; Official Labour Statisticians; ILO, India’s Employers Delegate on its work; Bombay Chamber of Commerce, Annual Meeting. FACTORIES: Accidents and Prosecutions, Presidency (Feb 1924); General Principles, Organisation of Factory Inspection. LABOUR CONDITIONS: Problems of Industrial India. INDUSTRIAL WELFARE: Absenteeism in Bombay Mills. WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION: Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923. MISCELLANEOUS: Questions in the Legislature. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. STATISTICAL TABLES: Bombay Cost of Living Index; Cost of Living Index Numbers (India, Foreign Countries); Retail Food Index (India, Foreign Countries); Wholesale Market Prices (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale Prices Index Numbers, Bombay; Retail Prices of Articles of Food, Jan and Feb 1924 (Bombay, Karachi, Ahmedabad, Sholapur and Poona); Securities Index; Accidents in Factories, Feb 1924; Principal Trade Unions, Bombay; Income and Expenditure of Principal Trade Unions, Bombay; Cotton Spinning Returns (yarn, woven goods), Principal trade Disputes in Progress, Feb 1924. CHARTS: Cost of living, Bombay; Monsoon progress, 1923; Securities index; Rainfall, Jun to Nov, 1922; Wholesale prices (India, foreign countries); Cost of living (India, foreign countries); Exchange rate, Bombay; Wholesale food and non-food prices, Bombay; Strikes, Presidency.