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 VII. - Unregulated factories

Collection:: Economics Books

UNREGULATED FACTORIES. 91 regulation, here as in other countries, has been gradually to extend the area of protection afforded to the industrially employed worker. This principle has been effected in three ways—Dby regulation affecting specific classes of workers, by regulation affecting specific classes of estab- lishments and by powers given to local Governments to include under such regulation smaller places of a similar kind. The value of a policy of gradualness has been clearly demonstrated in the history of factory legislation in India in the past and ‘the dictates of common sense and practicability confirm us in the belief that the same policy should con- tinue to actuate future developments in factory legislation, : Utilisation of Local Governments’ Powers. The power granted to local Governments under Section 2 (3) (b) of the Act of 1922 to extend the Factories Act to smaller factories has been used by different Governments in very varying degrees. The following table shows the number of factories so notified in the veay 1929: Madras - .. Bombay .. » Bengal ve wi United Provinces .. Punjab ve ie Bihar and Orissa ve Central Provinces and Berar Assam .e wie .. North-West Frontier Province Ajmer-Merwara a Delhi .. % .. Coorg . “s “ Bangalore .. vs Hin Burma and Baluchistan Lo. 9 uJ 1 6 * a A In some cases the power of notification has been used in respect of individual establishments which have tried to evade the law by a reduction in the number of operatives to the border line (i.e., 19 persons) or by dividing the operatives into shifts, In other cases the Act has been extended to groups of factories belonging to the same industry. Types of establishments in specific industries covered by such means in different provinces include saw-mills, type-casting foundries and yarn- dyeing premises. Most of these come under the category of those using power machinery. A few factories which do not use machinery have also been notified either on account of the large numbers employed or because of the danger of the processes or for other reasons. These include 13 hand match-making factories in the Bombay Presidency. The inaction in some provinces is explained mainly: by the fact that the burden of factory inspection could not be increased without adding to the existing staff. Some examination has been made of the conditions prevailing in specified trades hitherto industrially unregulated. In- stances in point are enquiries made by the Central Provinces in 1923 in regard to small ginning factories, those of the Bombay and Bengal Presidencies in 1924 into the employment of children in match factories. Total 184.

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