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 XII. - The income of the industrial worker

Collection:: Economics Books

THE INCOME OF THE INDUSTRIAL WORKER. 223 for all reasonable steps should be taken to reduce the temptations to excessive drinking. In considering this question it is impossible to ignore what we believe to bethe greatest difficulty in the way of restriction on sales. Thisarises from the importance of the excise duties to provincial revenues. In Madras, country liquors alone contributed in 1928-29 over a quarter of the total provincial revenue ; in Bihar and Orissa they furnished nearly a fifth of the total. Our proposals are limited toa small section of the population and in any case we are not competent to discuss the merits of alternative sources of taxation. Our duty, however, is to make recom- mendations with reference to the ‘health, efficiency and standard of living of the workers ”. The reduction of drinking should effect improve- ments in all of these, and thereby it will in due course incréase the taxable capacity of the people. It is for Legislative Councils and Govern- ments, if they consider that a price may be paid for these advantages, to determine the manner in which that price should be secured. In our recommendations elsewhere, we have sought to ensure for the worker better surroundings, less fatigue and increased facilities for amusement and recreation. Reduction in the consumption of drink is not the least of the benefits that such improvements may be expected to bring.

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