Royal Commission on Labour in India. Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

New rolling stock is made in a number of the principal workshops but the bulk of the work consists of the maintenance and repair of the running stock. [...] A few mills to the south of Calcutta employ Bengali labour ; but to the north of the city in most of the mills the proportion of Bengalis is small and there are large townships of immigrants. [...] The duration of the holiday is usually limited only by the money available ; more rarely it is determined by the necessity of complying with the instructions of the employer in the city. [...] It is rather the rduction under economic necessity of valuable elements of diet and it accentuates the effect of the change from the wide fields and fresh air of the village to the cramped and often insanitary streets and lanes of the town. [...] The village is an infinitely better place than the city for the young and the aged the sick the maimed and the exhausted the unemployed and the unemployable.