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 XI. - Transport services and public works

Collection:: Economics Books

180 CHAPTER XI, Masters should be authorised to exclude from them all seamen who have not been in employment for three years, and that, to begin with, a seaman should be struck off the register automatically on the expiry of three years from his last discharge. We have suggested this comparatively long period in order to avoid undue hardship to men who, through no fault of their own but owing to the existing system, have been out of em- ployment for a long time. But the period should be steadily reduced year by year. The rate of reduction should depend on a constant review of the position, but we suggest the possibility of reducing the period by 6 months each year-until it has reached 18 months. This would involve for the first year keeping seamen on the register who have not been three years out of employment ; during the second year the register would be restricted to seamen who have not been more than 2% years out of employment ; during the third year to those who have not been 2 years out of employment and from the fourth year to those who have not been more than 18 months unemploved. The Employer’s Choice. So far as the method of recruiting is concerned, we recommend that the shipping companies should have liberty of choice from men who have been in their employment within a specified period. We would put this period in the first instance at 2 years, and the aim should be to reduce it steadily until it has reached 9 months. Here again the speed of reduction must be determined by circumstances, the effect of each reduction being carefully watched. At the initiation of the system, the company would be able to select any men who had been discharged from one of their ships not less than 24 months previously, while after the necessary period of adjustment their freedom of choice would be restricted to men who had served on one of their ships during the last 9 months. If they were unable to complete a crew by the employment of such men, they should be required to recruit the men they needed through the shipping office, which would select them from those on the live register. We hope that this system will reduce the number of seamen with reasonable speed to less than twice the number that are required at sea at any time. A substantial margin must always remain to allow of seamen from time to time spending periods at their homes. The final periods of 18 months suggested in the preceding paragraph and 9 months suggested in this are both tentative ; after the scheme was in operation, experience might show that different periods were better, and there should always be a readiness, if necessity arose, to alter the periods in consultation with representatives of both sides. It will probably be advisable to deter- mine the extent of reduction of the periods for any year at least a year ahead, so that seamen could be warned on being discharged. Abolition of Licensed Brokers. We consider that there is now no further justification for the employment of licensed brokers in the recruitment of seamen. Where the supply of labour is considerably in excess of the demand, the necessity for recruiters and labour suppliers no longer exists. The powers of the

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