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 XVI. - Workmen's compensation

Collection:: Economics Books

WORKMEN’® COMPENSATION, 30% as the great majority of Indian seamen serve on British ships. We recommend that the possibilities of giving Indian seamen the right to compensation, while serving on ships registered outside India, should be further explored by the Government of India and the Home Office. Special attention should be given to the possibility of extending the Indian Act to Indian seamen while serving on all ships within India’s territorial waters and on British ships engaged in the coastal trade of India. The endorsement by the recent Imperial Conference of certain recommendations made in 1929 by the Conference on the Operation of Dominion Legislation and Merchant Shipping Legislation gives some reason for hoping that an advance will be possible in this direction. We also recommend the reduction of the limit of tonnage for sea-going and coasting ships to 50 tons. We consider that the time is now ripe for the inclusion of more persons employed on inland vessels. The Act might safely be extended to cover those employed on all inland vessels propelled by steam or motor engines and also to the more important public ferry-boats not so propelled. Fresh Classes. Passing to occupations which are not mentioned in the Act, the largest class whose inclusion we recommend consists of workers in organis- ad plantations. The limit should be set at plantations employing not less than 50 persons on any one day, and our recommendation is limited to workers in tea, coffee and rubber plantations and plantations run by Government. We have not sufficient knowledge to judge of the extent to which it is desirable to include the employees of the larger agricultural employers and those employed in reserved forests, and inany case a dis- cussion of this question would tend to take us outside our terms of refer- ence : but the point deserves examination. The development of motor transport on an organised scale has given rise to another class of workers whose inclusion is necessary. We recommend the inclusion of all persons engaged in the operation and maintenance of mechanically propelled vehicles which are maintained for the transport of passengers or for commercial purposes. We have already referred to outdoor constructional work. Here a further immediate extension is desirable, and we recommend the in- clusion of workmen engaged in the construction, maintenance or demoli- tion of canals, sewers, public roads, tunnels and aerial ropeways and pipe lines for the supply of gas, water or oil. Workers similarly em- ployed in connection with dams, embankments or excavations should also be included : we suggest that at present a height (or depth) of 20 feet might be a suitable limit. Finally we recommend the inclusion of persons employed in connection with the generation and distribution of electrical energy. Numbers Involved. The inclusion of the classes which we have indicated, rather than lefined, in the preceding paragraphs will have the effect of adding

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