BILL OF RIGHTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22319, 2 May 1947, Page 5

BILL OF RIGHTS

INDIAN_PEOPLE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM BAN ON CHILD LABOUR (10 a.m.) NEW DELHI, May 1. The Indian Constituent Assembly adopted clauses of a fundamental rights charter calling for religious freedom, prohibition of child labour in factories, mines or other hazardous employment, traffic in human beings, and forced labour except by State conscription. The Assembly also approved of a clause providing for free trade and prohibiting discriminatory taxation between units of the future Indian nation. The Times’ correspondent in Calcutta says that communal strife in Calcutta continues to take its toll, and deaths from violence in the past week have averaged more than five daily. The people generally are apprehensive, fearing another outbreak like that in August, and this is reflected in the disruption of office staff, factory organi- - sation and transport facilities, with conC- sequently serious commercial loss. Food is scarce and the streets are L piled with garbage because the scavenging staff, fearing molestation, stays away. Whenever trouble flares up, the authorities impose a curfew on the J guilty section of the city. This keeps the hooligans quiet, but encourages cholera, which has claimed 133 victims ' in a single week this month.