2026-04-161974https://dans.nls.ac.in/handle/123456789/3205February 1974. Month in brief. Current notes: Tidke for condition-based wages basis; Minimum wages for dispensary employment in Vidarbha; Right to work more fundamental than the right to strike; Interim relief for sugar workers; Chavan’s pleas for code of conduct in public sector; Management responsibility and industrial relations; Report on the 3-day zonal seminar on ‘wage policy’; Silver jubilee celebration of wage boards. Articles, Reports, Enquiries etc: Need for a wage policy (Dr L. K. Deshpande). Notifications under labour laws: Public utility service declared in Dec 1973. CPI (Bombay, Sholapur, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Nanded, Jalgaon, Poona; for certain industrial centres; & on base of 1944). Labour Intelligence: Industrial relations, Maharashtra (Nov); Industrial disputes (Oct); Important industrial disputes (Oct); Absenteeism Statistics – Cotton trade (Nov); Night shifts in Cotton mills (Dec) & Labour turnover (Nov); Trade Unions Act, Maharashtra (Dec); Fatal accidents and industrial diseases, Maharashtra (Dec); Employment situation, Maharashtra (Nov); Textile employment (decasualization) Scheme (Dec). Labour literature. Cases under labour laws. Statistics: Employment through employment exchange & decasualization scheme; Industrial disputes (Oct); CPI, Andhra & Madras (Nov); Agricultural wages, urban/rural (Nov).