2026-04-161950https://dans.nls.ac.in/handle/123456789/3149January 1950. MONTH IN BRIEF. CURRENT NOTES: Retrenchment and employment; ILO to act on plan for Asian body; TVA labour relations; UN Assembly adopts full-employment resolution. COST OF LIVING: Bombay, Ahmedabad, Sholapur, Jalgaon, Industrial Workers, Nov 1949. LABOUR INTELLIGENCE: Province, Nov 1949; Employment situation, Nov 1949; Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923; Night shifts in cotton mills, Province; Indian Trade Unions Act, 1926; Trade conditions, Ahmedabad; Decasualisation scheme for cotton textile workers; Night shifts in cotton mills, Province. Foreign: Wages and methods and work in cotton manufacturing industry, UK; Personnel Management Advisory Service, UK; Seafarers’ conditions in India, Pakistan; Employer-Employee interests to represented in labour courts. CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION. BOMBAY INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT, 1946: Arbitration under section 73-a; Reference under section 86-C; Submissions under section 58 (6); Awards published. ARBITRATION AWARDS. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES ACT, 1947. ADJUDICATION AWARDS. BOOKS, PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS. CHARTS: Industrial disputes, Nov 1949; Retail food prices (Oct, Nov 1949); Working class cost of living (Bombay, Ahmedabad, Sholapur, and Jalgaon).