BAD CONDITIONS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 10

BAD CONDITIONS

LABOUR IN INDIA \ UNITY WITH' BRITAIN TRADES UNION REPORT United Tress Association—By Electric Teligraph—Copyright. Australian Press Association—United Servici. (Received 28th May, JL.3O p.m.) " LONDON, 27th May.' The urgency of taking a mighty step to link up the British and Indian Trade Union movements is stressed in the report of the Labour officials, Messrs. Pur. cell and llallsworth, who recently returned from a tour in .India on behalf of the Trade Union Congress. They paint a melancholy picture of bad housing conditions. The vast majority of the workers do not receive more than a shilling a day, and are half-starved and badly clothed. They are horribly housed. The report estimates that the to,tal strength of the trade unions is 200,000," compared with 25,000,000 capable of organisation. It describes the tea plantations in Assam as virtually a slave population, where the human trinity— husband, wife, and child—brings in no more than 13d per day. The report says that India is in the presence of tremendous forces, which sooner or. later will be applied to a great expansion of manufacturing activity. ,