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 XXV. - Labour and the constitution

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LABOUR AND THE CONSTITUTION, 467 measures ; the views of the wider community can be effectively voiced in the legislatures themselves. The present system looks too much to the official element [or the interpretation of these views ; this is possibly a survival from the period when the majority in the legislature was not slected. An Industrial Council. We recommend the constitution by statute of an organisation by which representatives of employers,.of labour and of Governments would meet regularly in conference. The organisation, which might be called the Industrial Council, should be sufficiently large to ensure the adequate representation of the various interests involved, but it should not be too large to prevent members from making individual contributions to the discussions. The determination of the actual size and composition of the Council will require further examination, and this question may need reconsideration after some experience has been gained. On the basis of the present constitution and distribution of provinces, but excluding Burma, we give the following particulars, less as a definite recommenda- tion than as an illustration of the type of body we have in mind. Government members— 3 representatives from the Central Government, 2 each from Bengal and Bombay, and 1 from each of the other major provinces, making Employers’ representatives— 4 from Bengal, 3 from Bombay, 2 each from Madras, United Provinces and Bibarand Orissa, 1 from each of the other major provinces and 1 from the minor provinces collectively, making .. .. Labour representatives— Distributed similarly to the employers’ representatives, making ' Railway representatives— . 2 representatives of State railways, 1 of company-managed railways and 3 of railway labour, making .. ‘e Nominated non-official members in es se Total - 57 The last class should be nominated by the Central Government, who should use it to appoint at least one woman, and might also secure the inclusion of one or two economists or other non-official experts. Official experts, unless they happen to be nominated as representatives of Govern- ments, should be able to attend in the capacity of advisers. In our view the labour members should be elected by registered trade unions, and some such machinery as we have indicated earlier in connection with the parlia- mentary franchise might prove suitable for the purpose of these elections also. Where no trade unions of any size were in existence, it would be the duty of Government to nominate the labour representative. The employers’ representatives should also be elected by associations. Where a province has more than one representative of employers and of workers, it would be preferable to have single member constituencies rather than combined constituencies ; but whichever method is adopted, the voting power of employers’ associations should be approximately proportionate bo the number of workers which their members employ. We recommend that, when the new Constitution is framed, the Council, whether it has 292

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