INDIAN WORKERS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 63, 28 May 1928, Page 5

INDIAN WORKERS

UN SON ISM URGED.

REPORT OF LABOUR MEN.

A DISMAL PICTURE,

United Press Assn—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. (Receiverd 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 27-

■ The urgency of taking a mighty step to link up' British and Indian trade union movements is stressed lin the report of the Labourites, i Messrs Purcell and Halls worth, who j recently returned from a tour of I India on behalf of the Trade Union ! Congress. They paint a' melancholy picture of bad housing conditions, and state, the vast majority of the workers do not receive more than a shilling a day. They are half starved, badly clothed, and horribly housed. The report estimates the total strength of the trade unions at two hundred thousand compared with the twenty-five million capable of organisation. It describes the tea plantations at Assam as virtually slave plantations, where a human unity, husband, wife and child, brings in no more than fifteenpence a day. The report expresses the opinion that it is consistent with the presence of tremendous forces which sooner or later will be applied, that there will be a great expansion of manufacturing activity.—Australian Press Assn.—United Service.