Labour Gazette Vol. I, No. 11, July 1922

Abstract

July 1922. MONTH IN BRIEF: Budget of Intl. Labour office; Salaries and wages; Monthly Index numbers. COST OF LIVING: June 1922; German cost of living index; Cost of living abroad. FAMILY BUDGETS: Honorary correspondents. WAGE CENSUS: Cotton Mill industry. PRICE STATISTICS: Wholesale prices, Jun 1922 (Bombay); Retail Prices and comparative prices (Bombay, Ahmedabad, Karachi and Sholapur). COLLECTION OF STATISTICS BY LEGISLATIVE ENACTMENT-III: The Self-Governing Dominions. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES IN THE PRESIDENCY: Intl. Labour Conference, 1922; Labour in Indian Cotton mills; The Factories Act, new provisions; Remittances of industrial workers. THE INDIAN FACTORIES ACT. LABOUR IN JAVA: Japan and the Genoa Recommendations. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD: UK, Canada, USA, Japan, Germany. BOOKS RECEIVED. STATISTICAL TABLES: Cost of living, Bombay; Wholesale market prices (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale prices index, Bombay (Jan 1920); Retail food prices, Bombay (Jul 1914, May and Jun 1922); Retail food prices (Bombay, Karachi, Ahmedabad and Sholapur); Cost of living index (India, foreign countries); Retail food index (India, foreign countries); Wholesale prices (India, foreign countries); Principal trade disputes, Jun 1922; Cotton mill production (yarn, woven goods). CHARTS: Cost of living, Bombay; Monsoon progress, 1921-1922; Retail food prices, Bombay; Cost of living (India, foreign countries); Imports and exports of merchandise, India; Exchange rate, Bombay; Strikes, 1921-22, Bombay.