Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

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Identifikator:: 1850495947

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-233603

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Off.

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: xviii, 580 S.; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XVIII. - Industrial disputes

Collection:: Economics Books

333 CHAPTER XVIIL.—INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES. At this stage of India’s industrial history it is unnecessary for us to emphasise the importance of taking all reasonable measures to promote industrial peace. The loss occasioned by industrial disputes to employers, employed and the public at large has produced a general anxiety to find methods of preventing the occurrence of strikes and lock-outs and secur- ing their speedy termination when they occur. We propose first to trace briefly the course of industrial unrest in India and thereafter to attempt 50 analyse the causes of industrial strife. We shall then review the methods already adopted for the prevention and settlement of disputes and make our recommendations in this connection. Emergence of Strikes. Prior to the winter of 1918-19, a strike was a rare occurrence in Indian industry. Strikes took place occasionally on the railways and in other branches of industry ; but to the majority of industrial workers the use of the strike was probably unknown. Lacking leadership and organisation, and deeply imbued with a passive outlook on life, the vast majority of industrial workers regarded the return to the village as the only alternative to the endurance of hard conditions in industry. The end of the war saw an immediate change. There were some important strikes in the cold weather of 1918-19; they were more numerous in the following winter and in the winter of 1920-21 industrial strife became almost general in organised industry. The main cause was the realisa- bion of the potentialities of the strike in the existing situation, and this was assisted by the emergence of trade union organisers, by the educa- tion which the war had given to the masses and by a scarcity of labour arising from the expansion of industry and aggravated by the great epidemics of influenza. Statistics of Disputes. After that winter industrial unrest slowly subsided, but the strike weapon remained and since that date strikes have been a concomitant of Indian industry. The following figures of reported disputes involving stoppages of work for the period 1921-30 have been furnished by the Government of India :— (ear. $ 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 ve wt oe 1927 “s we "e 1028 wy iv nt [929 .e 1930 » .e ve » Number of | stoppages geginning luring the vear. 376 272 209 32 33 bi 29 90 “0A in Number of workers ~ involved thousands). 300 135 301 2 70 RY 132 507 <2] Number of working days lost (in lakhs). | 70 40 51 vi Loa 110 202 316 122 or

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