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

Collection:: Economics Books

6 CHAPTER VI, it has not hitherto been customary to supply latrine accommodation. But here, as in the allied matter of regular and efficient white-washing and cleaning (particularly in respect of places concerned with dust-producing processes) dependence must be placed on more regular and systematised inspection. We make a recommendation elsewhere for the withdrawal of the exemptions granted to the Assam and Bengal tea factories in this connection. Guarding of Machinery. Passing to questions of safety, we consider that the guarding of machinery requires more attention than it has been possible for the present staffs to devote to it. This is especially true of cotton-ginning factories, which are always a potential source of danger on account of the number of belts and pulleys connecting the roller gins and the main line shaft and the confined space in which the operator has to work. We also consider that something might be done to assist seasonal factory owners by means of publications. The Bengal Factory Inspection Department recently prepared a useful booklet for distribution to mana- gers of tea factories, explaining the requirements of the Factories Act in its application to their industry and illustrating the best method of guarding standard types of machinery. Simplified leaflets or small pamphlets on these lines might be prepared and distributed by provin- cial factory inspection departments in respect of the seasonal, and indeed also of the smaller perennial factories where power machinery of a more or less standardised kind is in operation. Such literature could usefully deal with suitable clothing for machine tenders as well as with the adequate guarding of the machinery itself. The former is of particular importance in country power-driven factories, where the labourer is accustomed to wear a loose loin cloth or a pagri with hanging ends only too liable to become entangled in belts and pulleys as a result of the draught created by moving machinery. Safety of Buildings. Unfortunately many seasonal factories leave much to be desired as regards their structural adequacy. Often little attention is given to the matter by the owner in view of the fact that the structure is only in use for part of the year. Sometimes the buildings are deficient from the moment of erection, owing to efforts to cut down the initial cost of construction and the absence of any effective central control over building plans. We have dealt elsewhere with the necessary measures to obviate the latter difficulty in the case of all types of factory buildings, whether perennial or seasonal. The Cotton Ginning and Pressing Factories Act of 1925 was especially intended to meet this and other difficulties in these factories and, as far as we are aware, is being adequately enforced. But this Act, useful as it is, was passed only six years ago and all over the cotton-growing area are scattered ginneries built before that period, often in a very unsatisfactory way. The dangers to which such buildings are liable are accentuated in certain districts by the pooling system which sometimes involves using in rotation

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