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 XVIII. - Industrial disputes

Collection:: Economics Books

348 CHAPTER XVIII. when the tactful and experienced official can assist by bringing the parties together, or by putting before either party aspects of the other’s case which may have been overlooked, or even by suggesting possible lines of compromise. India has tried to copy the less valuable part of the machinery employed in Great Britain whilst ignoring the most valuable part. There, less reliance is placed on ad hoc public enquiries of the kind contemplated by the Indian Trade Disputes Act than in the efforts of conciliation officers and others to bring the parties privately to agreement. The need of qualified officers to undertake coneiliation is greatest in Bengal and in Bombay ; but elsewhere also the heads of the labour departments or other qualified officers should undertake the work of conciliation. Government’s Contact with Disputes. The existence of such officers should give an additional advant- age, in that they will be able to keep Government in close touch with disputes in their earlier stages. Too often when the crisis comes, Govern- ment is inadequately informed regarding the antecedents and the merits of a dispute ; indeed, in many cases it has received little information of it except that which comes at a late stage from those responsible for law and order. At present, even some officers dealing with labour in the provinces, lacking encouragement (and even permission) to interest themselves directly in disputes, tend to depend on police reports for their information. The attention of the authorities is thus apt to be con- centrated too exclusively on the effects which a dispute is likely to have on the public peace and officers whose duties qualify them to act as conciliators sometimes receive no information of a dispute or are informed at a very late stage. An expert officer who had followed a dispute im its earlier stages would be able to take a wider view of the whole sifuation than those whose interest is rightly concentrated on a special aspect of it, namely, its relation to public security. Even when the expert officer’s efforts to secure a settlement were unsuccessful, he should be in a position to give wise advice to Government as to the stage at which it could bring its influence to bear, either privately or by the appointment of a statutory Board or Court. We consider that every (Government should have an officer or officers for this Purpose.

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