Full text: Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

APPENDIX II. 
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19) Apprentices Act, 1850, 
Value of. 
II. Staff Organisation. 
(10) Detuils of organisation, administrative and departmental. 
(11) Selection of managing staff. 
112) Recruitment and training of supervising staff, superior and subordinate. 
(i) Methods in force. 
(ii) Facilities for training and promotion of workmen. 
13) Relations between staff and rank and file. 
(i) Relations generally. 
(if) Value and defects of system of employing jobbers. 
(iii) Works Committees : their constitution, extent and achievements. 
(iv) Works Councils and Industrial Councils. 
(14) Timekeeping, piecework, contract and attendance registers. 
(i) How and by whom kept and checked. 
ii) How and by whom wages actually paid to workers. 
(18) Contractors as intermediaries. 
i) Extent and character of work given on contract. 
(ii) Extent of sub-contracting. 
iii) Control exercised over working conditions. 
(iv) Effects. 
III. Housing. 
(16) Extent to which housing is provided. 
(i) By employers. 
(ii) By Government or other public agency. 
(iii) By private landlords. 
iv) By workers themselves. 
(17) Facilities for acquisition of land for workers’ houses. 
(18) Nature of accommodation provided in each class. 
(i) In relation to workers’ demands. 
(ii) In relation to best type from health point of view. 
{iii) Provision made for lighting, conservancy and water supply. 
(19) Utilisation by workers of accommodation available. 
120) Rent rates in various classes. 
121) Special problems arising in connection with various classes of housing, 
e. ¢., Subletting ; 
Occupation of employers’ houses by tenants in other employ ; 
Eviction. 
(22) Moral effect on worker of industrial housing conditions. Improvements 
tried and suggested. 
IV. Health. 
(23) General health conditions of workers. 
(i) Figures of mortality. 
(ii) Birth rate and infant mortality. 
Methods of registration. 
iii) Working conditions— 
(a) at work places ; 
(b) at home. 
liv) Dietary. 
(v) Physique. . 
(vi) Effects of disturbance of sex ratio in industrial cities. 
vii) Relation between housing and mortality.
	        
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