Bulletins of Indian Industries & Labour Conciliation and Arbitration

The legal enforcement of a living wage or to put it in the opposite light the prevention of sweating has been adopted in those indutries where the likelihood of strikes is at a minimum owing to the weak bargaining power of the workers and their lack of organization. [...] The services of government the chief organization of all can only be usefully invoked where the issues are clearly defined and where they affect a considerable section of the community( The develoment of machinery for the settlement of disputes has followed the growth of large scale production and the organisation of large scale or national services. [...] A person appointed to act as conciliator the Act says shall enquire into the causes and circumstances of the difference by comunication with the parties and otherwise shall endeavour to bring about a settlement of the difference and shall report the proceedings to the Board of Trade. [...] The operative sections of the Act are those which authorise the Minister to enquire into the causes and circumstances of a dispute and to appoint a conciliator at the request of either party or an arbitrator at the request of both. [...] The chief work of conciliation boards is the prevention of lockouts and strikes although in some cases the actual settlement of stoppages is one of the objects of the board.