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 XVII. - Trade unions

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230) CHAPTER XVII. It is here that social workers, professional men and others anxious to assist the movement can render valuable service. The training should commence before the selected man leaves his employment ; his readiness to undertake the necessary toil will afford a good test of his capacity for ultimate success. He should be assisted to improve his general education by directed reading, particularly in economics and social questions, including labour legislation and trade union history. In the larger centres it might be possible to start small study circles for groups of, say, 4 to 6 men. The Universities in the leading industrial centres could strengthen their contact with the industrial life of the country by assisting in this work with evening classes, and the larger trade unions should endeavour to assist. Simultaneously the prospective official should take as active a part in the work of the union as his ordinary work allows; his activity here will afford a good indication of his qualifications for a paid appointment. Outside Assistance. We have suggested that during his training, the future official should be supported by his own industrial work. But his value in many cases could be greatly enhanced by a wider training, with freedom for a period from other work. This would involve the provision of funds for the support of such men during part of their training. In the case of State servants—and particularly on the railways—periods of leave and other assistance could be given. Asa further possibility we suggest the grant of studentshipsat Universities or colleges which are ready to co-operate. The higher education of the country is largely dependent on State funds, and we feel that the share of the industry of the country in the results is disproportionately small. The class whose education we desire to advance has claims which are in no way weaker than those of political lawyers or Government officials to participate in the provision which the State makes for education. Finally the linking of the move- ment with the international trade union movement provides the op- portunity for and will no doubt evoke its assistance in the building and consolidation of Indian trade unionism. Some of the labour de- legates and advisers sent to International Labour Conferences at Geneva, by extending their stay in Europe, have been able to secure some training in Western trade union methods. If, as we hope, the labour side of the delegation to these conferences is increasingly composed of actual workers and ez-workers, they can be assisted at a com- paratively small cost to qualify themselves more fully for trade union work Revision of the Act. The Act has not been sufficiently long in operation to enable us to attempt a detailed review of its working. But the developments of the movement which are already in progress and those which may be expected as a result of the changes taking place in the social and political sphere, together with the advance which we hope some of our recom- mendations will bring, will probably necessitate its revision in some

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