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. 519 PAGES. 265. A registered trade union should not be precluded from initiating and conducting co-operative credit or supply societies o.- 332 CHAPTER XVIII —INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES, 266. The Employers and Workmen (Disputes) Act of 1860 should be repealed ‘e .. .. .- . 267. Works committees— (a) Where there is a trade union, the employer should seek its collaboration and co-operation in the establishment and working of works committees which should not be regarded or used as rivals to its influence .. » {h) The workers’ representatives should have facilities for sepa- rate as well as for joint meetings, and such meetings should ordinarily count as working time .. 2% ‘a {¢) The range of subjects should be as wide as possible .r {d) The management must be in sympathy with the idea and determined to make the committee a success. The services of a labour officer, where one exists, should be utilised in the working of the committee but he should not act as a spokesman of employers ‘se . 268. In many centres the organisation of joint machinery would go far to develop a sense of responsibility in trade unions. The organisa. sion should include not only some joint committee or council within the ndividual establishment, but also a larger body of representatives of both sides of the industry in the centre concerned. . - vis 269. Some statutory machinery will be permanently required to deal with trade disputes and it will be necessary to consider the form which such machinery should take before the Trade Disputes Act expires in 1934 ‘eo . . Cee 970, In the remaining period for which the present Act will be in operation, Governments should lose no opportunity of utilising their power to appoint Boards or Courts when they believe that this action will serve some useful purpose. oe . 271. The question of providing means for the impartial examin- ation of disputes in public utility services should be considered . 272. The possibility of establishing permanent courts in place of ad hoc tribunals under the Act should be examined pp +3 273. Section 13 of the Trade Disputes Act should be amended so as to provide that no prosecution or suit shall be maintainable on account of any breach of the section or any damage caused thereby, except with the previous sanction of the Government which appointed the tribun- al 337 349.9 343 243 45 246 246 274. Every provincial Government should have an officer or officers whose duty it would be to undertake the work of conciliation and to oring the parties privately to agreement .. . ve ho CuaprER XIX.—THE PLANTATIONS. 275. No further legislation making a breach of contract of service 2 criminal offence should be countenanced '3 . .. CraprER XX.—RECRUITMENT FOR ASSAM. 276. The power conferred by Section 3 of the Assam Labour and Emigration Act (Act VI of 1901) to prohibit recruitment for Assam in particular localities should be withdrawn immediately, and no barrier should be set up to prevent free movement of labour from one part of India to another . 347 248 are 362

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