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Bulletin of Indian Industries & Labour. Correspondence relating to the Action to be taken in India on the Proposals of the Washington Labour Conference

1921

or by rules to be made under the Act by either the Central or the Provincial Government 1 The Government of India are inclined to the view that the law should provide for elasticity in the local application of the principle of the sixty-6 Bulletins of Indian Industries and Labour. [...] The Washington Conference has suggested that the Government of India should consider the possibility of adopting in the light of the standards accepted in other countries a modified definition of factory " which would reduce the number of workers required to bring a factory under the scope of the Act. [...] As in compliance with the request of the Washington meeing it will be necessary for the Government of India to be in a position to report on these matters to the next meeting of the Conference which may be held early in the next autumn I am to request that the reply of the local Government may reach the Government of India not later than the end of July ne4. [...] The Government of India realise the importance that is to be attached to the disinfection of wool in the interest of the operatives in this country as well as in the interest of the countries to which the wool is exported but much wool is imported into India from the different countries on our land frontier and there are practical difficulties in the setting up of disinfecting stations at the poi [...] Apart from the question of extending the definition of factories " and of applying the provision in the case of mines and quarries a decision on the subject seems to involve the following considerations :- (1) To what extent are children between the ages of 9 and 12 at present employed in factories in India that come under the operation of the Indian Factories Act ? Figures abstracted from the An
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Pages
144
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143939
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Frontmatter
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Introduction
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First Letter from the Government of India
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Second Letter from the Government of India
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Replies of Local Governments and Administrations
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Despatches from the Gornment of India to the Secretary of State
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Replies from the Secretary of State to the Government of India
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The First Ratification
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Appendix
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Backmatter
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