WORKERS IN INDIA.
BRITISH LABOUR REPORT. MELANCHOLY PICTURE DRAWN. Australian Press Association—United Service LONDON, May 27. The urgency of taking strong steps to link np the trades unio»n movements in Britain and India is emphasised in a report issued bv Messrs. A. A. Furcell, M.P., and Ha Us worth, Labour representatives, who recently returned from a tour 1 of India on behalf of the Trades Union Congress. They paint a melancholy picture of bad housing conditions, and say the vast majority of the workers in India do not receive more than on© shilling a day in wages. The report alleges that the Indian workers are half-starved, badly clothed and horribly housed. It estimates the total membership of the trades unions in India at 200,000, whereas there are 25.000,000 workers who could bo organised. The report describes tho tea plantations at Assam as virtually slave plantations where the human trinity—husband, wife and child—earn no more than Is 3d a day.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19958, 29 May 1928, Page 9
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