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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APPENDIX I. 509 Pages. (#32) In the case of factories the inspection staff should be res- ponsible for enforcement and the Chief Inspector of Factories should review the position in his annual re- port. As regards railways the registers should be scrutinised at intervals by the audit officer. fiw} The imposition of a deduction not permissible by law should be punishable, but the usual form of proceeding should not be a prosecution but an application before specially empowered magistrates and other officers for the re- covery of the wrongful payment and for compensation. Such an application may be made by an inspector, by the workman aggrieved or by any person acting on his behalf. The procedure should be summary and the amount of compensation should not exceed ten times the sum wrongfully deducted. prosecution should only be instituted with the sanction of an inspector or an officer before whom a proceeding for contravention has been taken .. we we Restrictions on sale of liquor. 180. (a) In all large cities and industrial areas a general policy should be adopted of restricting the facilities for the sale of liquor. (b) The areas selected should .be sufficiently wide to ensure the policy of restriction being effective. (¢) The number of drink shops should be reduced. (d) Hours of opening should be limited, and should in no cage include any part of the forenoon. Outside the stated hours the sale of liquor should be prohibited. (e) The possibility of an extension of the system by which spirituous liquor may not be supplied except in sealed bottles should be examined . . we ve CHAPTER XII1.—INDEBTEDNESS. 181. All railway administrations should make persistent efforts to help their workers by means of co-operative credit. A study should be made of the methods adopted on the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway ie we ni 182, The salary and wages of all workmen receiving less than Rs. 300 a month should be exempted entirely from the possibility of attachment. Failing extension to all persons below this salary limit, the definition of workman in the Workmen's Compensation Act might be suitable oe os vo ry -* 183. At least so far as industrial workers in receipt of wages or salary of less than Ras, 100 a month are concerned, arrest and imprisonment for debt should be abolished except where the debtor has been proved to be both able and unwilling to pay .. I. re oe 184. Workers’ contributions to provident funds maintained by private employers and certified by Government for the purpose should be safeguarded against attachment .. a vie ae vs 185. Legislation should be enacted providing a summary proce- dure for the liquidation of workers’ unsecured debts. . oe . (2) The court should be required to estimate the probable in- come and reasonable expenditure of the worker during the ensuing two years ve ce ve ve (b) The amount of the decree issued should be based on the difference between the two sums. Bm 29) 9299 29Q 299 232 232 233 233 299

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