Labour Investigation Committee Government of India Report on Labour Conditions in the Glass Industry

The final lists of centres of survey and individual establishments were made out in the light of the impressions gathered during the course of the preliminary tour and in consultation with local authorities. [...] The guiding principle in the selection of centres of survey was to make the survey regionally representative so as to discover differences in the conditions of labour in the same industry in different parts of the country. [...] This departure from the usual procedure of the Coinittee as a whole dealing with the work was necessary in view of the immensity of the task and the necessity of maintaining an all-Tndia perspective. [...] Molten glass is taken out of the furnace by helpers through small Opeings in the furnace known as " windows ". By a careful manipulation of the bloiv-pipe the helper takes out only the required quantity of glass at one and of the pipe and after blowing it a little he gives the pipe to the blower whit) alternately swings it and blows the glass into shape. [...] The dust of lime affects the eye of the worker and as the worker employs naked hands to mix the batch the presence of lime sometimes' causes scalds.