Labour Gazette Vol III No 1 September 1923

Abstract

September 1923. MONTH IN BRIEF: Japan and the Geneva conventions. COST OF LIVING: Aug 1923; Bombay; Description of the scope and method of compilation; Wholesale prices, Bombay; Comparative retail prices; The price of salt; Cost of living (Bihar, Orissa); Profits in Bombay mills. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES: Bombay, Aug 1923; Unemployed seamen. TRADE UNIONS: Bombay, quarter ending Sept 1923; Welfare of Mill hands; Industrial value of criminal tribes; Questions in the legislature; Cost of living in the straits settlements; Technical training for apprentices in govt. factories; Lancashire cotton industry; 12-hour day in the USA; Building materials. Factory accidents, Aug 1923 (Bombay, Ahmedabad, Karachi, other centres); Wholesale market prices, Bombay, Karachi; Wholesale price index, Bombay; Retail food prices, Bombay (Jul 1914, Jul and Aug 1923); Retail food prices, Jul and Aug 1923; Wholesale prices (India, foreign countries); Principal trade unions, Bombay; Principal trade unions, Income and expenditure, Bombay; Cotton spinning returns (yarn, woven goods); Principal trade dispute, Aug 1923. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD: South Africa, USA, Japan, Bulgaria, Serb-Croat-Slovene Kingdom; Czechoslovakia. 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.