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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vm £74 APPENDIX 1. PAGES. (¢) The Government of Assam should either secure the services of some one with experience of the working of wage- fixing machinery or arrange for a selected officer in Assam to acquire the requisite experience e .. .e ‘d) Thereafter, Government should notify its intention to call for wage returns covering a period of at least twelve months and including all classes of work undertaken in the different seasons .. is . {e) The form of the wage returns should be the same throughout the province. These returns should show the number of male, female and child workers employed each month, whether permanently or temporarily, the wages earned by each such group and as near an approximation as possible to the hours wtually worked for those wages I. 'h ve (f) Government should invite the tea, industry to submit proposals for its consideration regarding the most suitable type of machinery to be provided bv statute. The cardinal points are :— [7) Employers and workers should be given equal representation in the constitution of such machinery. In the absence of any organisation among the workers, it will be necessary for Government to appoint disinterested persons, who are neither officials nor employers, to represent the interests of the garden workers on the Board on {#%) Minority interests among employers should find representa- tion, but the number of members should be kept as small as possible ry ww or “ oe (#4) An independent element is necessary, but it should suffice to have an independent Chairman, preferably an official no- minated by Government .. .. ‘sy a {iv) The Board or Boards should include at least one woman .. 9) Only a small staff should be required for enforcement. If pos- sible the duties of factory and wage inspection should be combined vin .e ry '% eo 295. In the Dooars, wages should invariably be paid direct to the worker and not through the sardar sw . .e 296. The recommendations made in Chapter XITI relating to the regular and prompt payment of wages, the recovery of recruiting costs, including cost of transit, and restrictions on the recovery of advances should also apply to plantation labour throughout British India - CHAPTER XXIL—HEALTH AND WELFARE IN PLANTATIONS. 297. On all plantations managers should be required to maintain birth and death registers, and by inspection Government should ensure that these are reasonably accurate .. ‘x - ‘e 298. Where possible, garden managers should make a more generous allocation to workers of land for grazing and for vegetable cultivation 299. A more active policy should be adopted by all plantation managements in regard to anti-malarial work carried out under skilled advice and supervision .. .. .. oe ‘o P 300. Wherever conditions are suitable, tube wells should be cons- bructed. Where possible, piped water supplies should be provided .. 301, Workers’ houses should be suitably spaced out and not built back to back. They should be in blocks of two rooms and, wherever possible, on high ground . a a» 204 304 204 205-6 396 396 396 307-8 399 109 4056 406 407 407

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