Labour Gazette Vol VIII, No. 3, November 1928

Abstract

November 1928. MONTH IN BRIEF. COST OF LIVING: Nov 1928; Comparison with other countries; Wholesale and retail prices. LABOUR INTELLIGENCE: Industrial disputes, Presidency; Labour news, Ahmedabad; Employer situation, Oct; Prosecutions under Indian Factories Act, Oct; Agricultural outlook, Presidency; Working of Assam labour board; Workmen’s Compensation Act – Appeal against consent order; Claims by railway servants; Sitting on railway track; “Unloading” a ship; An unusual case-Question whether workman was employed (ship unloading); Unemployment, Amsterdam; Labour conditions, France; Results of Russian census; Social policy, Cuba; Wages and hours movements overseas; Labour Banks, USA; Trade unions, Presidency; Women workers, Japan. INDUSTRIAL UNREST, INDIA: Settlement at Jamshedpur (Strike on South Indian Railway); Intl. Labour Office; Working class family budget enquiry, Ahmedabad; Immigrant labour, Ceylon. CURRENT PERIODICALS. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD. STATISTICAL TABLES: Cotton Spinning Returns (yarn, woven goods); Industrial disputes, Oct 1928; Wholesale market prices (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale prices, Bombay; Wholesale prices and retail food index (India, foreign countries); Retail food prices, Sept and Aug 1928; Federation of trade unions, Presidency; Principal trade unions, Presidency; Principal trade unions, Presidency, Income and expenditure; Cost of living (India, foreign countries); Working class cost of living, Bombay.