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 VI. - Seasonal factories

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SEASONAL FACTORIES. 85 factories is vitiated by dust and fluff, and we noticed the marked in- Provement effected by efficient dust-extracting machinery of the suction type. We recommend that owners of tea factories be required to install efficient dust-extracting machinery in all such factories within a speci- fied period and that no new factories be allowed to be built without such machinery. In rice milling, dust is formed in considerable quanti- ties both in hoppering and its ancillary processes and in polishing. The meal dust given off in the latter process 1s not only unpleasant but is stated by the Chief Inspector of Factories in Burma to increase the hazard of fire in the dry weather. We recommend that steps be taken bo compel the installation of the necessary protective machinery (e.g., enclosure of polishing cones) in all new mills and that freer use be made by local Governments of the power of inspectors to demand the instal- lation of such machinery in existing mills where the conditions are bad. Exclusion of Infants from Factory Premises. The exclusion of infants from the premises of seasonal factories has caused some difficulty. This mainly concerns ginneries, though other industries are also involved. In one province an order made by the factory Inspection department, excluding infants from ginneries but permitting their presence in ginnery compounds, appears to have been largely successful. But in another province two similar orders, issued in 1924 and 1926, had to be withdrawn on the ground that they could not be enforced without driving some of the women out of employment, This is due to the lack of shelter elsewhere than in the factory for the children of working women. It is not reasonable to require the owners of small factories situated in rural areas and open for a part of the year only to install creches in the accepted sense of the term. But where women are employed in any process creating an impure atmosphere, the factory owner should be required to set up for their infants some temporary shelter in the compound. If a sufficient number of children is involved, a woman not employed within the factory could exercige the required supervision. The hecessary provision could take the form of a welfare order of the kind recommended in the preceding chapter. In this regard there is considerable scope for women inspectors, not 50 much in the actual day-to-day enforcement as in the evolving of suitable methods of surmounting obstacles of this kind with which the factory labour of women in tropical countries is still beset Sanitation, It should be observed that the recommendation made in the preceding chapter in respect of latrine accommodation applies both to perennial and seasonal factories wherever situated. Where water-borne conservancy is not possible, the adequacy and acceptability of pit or bore-hole latrines has already been demonstrated in different parts of India. These are cheap and, if properly constructed, odourless and should meet admirably the requirements of large numbers of seasonal factories of the smaller kind. The ordinary seasonal factory may have Some difficulty in complying with this requirement. particularly where

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