CHAPTER XXIII, 
should be given statutory power to enter industrial establishments where 
Indian labour is employed. If a suitable officer is selected, he should 
be able to secure a large measure of co-operation from employers and 
assist them in dealing with the needs of the workers. A working know- 
ledge of some Indian languages, and particularly Telugu, is an Important 
qualification. We may remark in passing that the language difficulty is 
one of the factors responsible for the extent to which authority is dele- 
gated to intermediaries. What is said in another chapter regarding this 
lifficulty is especially applicable in Burma. We recommend that the 
Protector of Immigrants should have access to the Member or Minister 
responsible for labour, and that he should furnish the Government of 
[ndia with an annual report on the conditions of labour during the year 
and on his own work. He should have sufficient experience and 
standing to ensure that his advice will deserve and receive full 
consideration from authorities and employers in Burma. After a little 
experience such an officer should be able to do much to further the 
welfare of Indian labour. Work done along this line, so far from 
proving a handicap to industry, should be beneficial. The separation 
of Burma from India would increase rather than diminish the utility 
of an appointment of this kind. 
Streams of Industrial Migration. 
It is not possible to say what proportion of the migration re- 
presents industrial labour. The deck passengers include a large number 
who do not come to Burma for labour of any kind, and there are many 
who are looking for agricultural employment. The cutting of the paddy 
crop, in lower Burma especially, absorbs large gangs of Indian labourers ; 
but some of these look for employment in mills after the harvesting is 
over, and many others drift to Rangoon and swell the mass of casual 
labourers there. Hven on the question of the average stay of the Indian 
labourer in Burma there is little reliable information. It seems to be 
generally agreed that few of the immigrants return to India in the first 
bwelve months ; the returning emigrants who were engaged in industry 
are persons who had entered Burma. two or more years previously. On 
arrival a5 Rangoon, the various Indian races tend to move to separate 
branches of work. The Telugus, there known as Coringhis, furnish most 
of the Indian labour in factories and mills and in the port and are the 
most prominent section in the work of the city. Few of them are to be 
found in the upper ranks of labour. The Chittagonians man the inland 
steamer traffic, the small craft and the sampans, and hold a number of the 
better and more permanent jobs in the mills. The Uriyas look for con- 
struction work on railways and roads and are to be found in substantial 
aumbers on the oilfields and at the lead mines ; some are to be found in 
factories and in the docks, and they also find employment on the tramways. 
The Tamils and Hindustanis are less prominent in industry than the 
other races, but there are sections of them in various branches. of employ- 
ment, including some of the factories Other races represented are 
Bengalis, particularly in the railway service, ard Punjabis in other forms 
of transport and as mechanics.