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 IX. - Railways

Collection:: Economics Books

148 CHAPTER IX, which were merged in the general revision of 1920. Figures are given for each of six railways (A. B. C. D. E. F.) operating in different parts of the country and take no account of grain compensation or other allowances :— Pre-war monthly rates of pay. Ra. ] oF 20 25 IN = er —— EE ES i —— AAA i —— 4A ————,. Sh —— Percentage increase on railways with headquarters in Madras Puniab Bombay | Bengal a Rr 3 hn 70 55 60 50 35 nq 53 53 67 47 65 £0 | 50 { £5 40 52 52 £2 44 48 on 50 Fr) | 27 40 i110 51 51 37 | 34 Bn 50 50 Qs 37 In the case of some railways, where workers were receiving Rs. 6 and under, wages were raised to Rs. 12 in 1920. In view of the fall in the cost of living in recent years, there was, in the opinion of the Board, no occasion to undertake a further revision of a general character, although pay meantime has been im- proved in individual grades and classes, the resulting cost in the aggre- gate being considerable. We are also informed that an officer placed on special duty with the Railway Board reported, after an enquiry, that in the revisions of scales of pay immediately following the war, railway employees had fared appreciably better than local Government employees on corresponding rates of pay. The numbers of grades and varying scales of pay rising on an incremental basis, as well as promo- tions from one grade to ancther, make it difficult to give a detailed com- parison of increases in wages. We have been furnished by the Railway Board with statements showing scales of pay of important classes. From these we have selected gangmen, pointsmen, ticket collectors and signal- lers as representative of workers whose wages are not materially affected by overtime, mileage or other allowances. In the Appendix to this chapter we give a comparison of the minimum scales of pay of these selected grades on the six railways included in the above table. This statement shows the minimum rates ruling in 1914, 1921 and 1929 ; but, as these rates in some cases apply only to certain sections of the lines, we have given both the minimum and the maximum scales in force in 1929 before the recent revisions sanctioned by the Railway Board came into effect. Figures have been supplied to indicate the improvements in wage earnings since 1914. Taking lahour alone, 4.c., all employees except supervisory and clerical staff, the Railway Board estimate the rise in the average wage in 1928-29 over that in 1913-14 as approximately 12497, after taking into account a rise of 26%, in the number of employees

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