Labour Gazette Vol VIII, No. 10, June 1929

Abstract

June 1929. INCOMPLETE. MONTH IN BRIEF. COST OF LIVING: June 1929; Comparison with cost of living in other countries; Wholesale and retail prices. LABOUR INTELLIGENCE: Industrial disputes, Presidency; Workmen’s Compensation Act; Employment situation, May; Prosecutions under the Indian Factories Act, April 1929; Royal Commission on Indian labour; Agricultural outlook, Presidency; Workmen’s Compensation Act; Loading a ship; Meaning of legal disability; Payment of compensation direct to widow; Accident of Suicide (Court of Commissioner for Workmen’s Compensation, Bombay); Asleep on railway line (Court of Commissioner for Workmen’s Compensation, Bombay); Accidents-Statistics for January to April 1929; Prosecutions under the Indian Factories Act, May; Problem of discipline in Soviet industry; Conciliation and arbitration, France; Strikes and lock-outs in 1928, UK; Small Holdings Bill, Madras; International Labour Office; Entry of foreigners for employment, UK; Benefits provided trade unions, USA; Conciliation and arbitration, Australia; Unemployment in the Soviet Union; IFTU inquiry into hours of labour; Labour courts, Germany; Juvenile labour; Labour conditions, Spain; Trade unions, Presidency; Factory and Workshop (Cotton cloth factories) Act, 1929; Fawcett Committee’s Report; Sickness experience of printers. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES: India. CURRENT PERIODICALS. CURRENT NOTES FROM ABROAD. STATISTICAL TABLES: Cotton Spinning Returns (yarn, woven goods); Industrial disputes, May 1929; Factory accidents (Bombay, Ahmedabad, Karachi city, other centres); Wholesale market prices (Bombay, Karachi); Wholesale prices, Bombay; Cost of living index (India, foreign countries); Retail food prices, Apr and May 1929; Working class cost of living, Bombay.