Indian Jute Mills Association Association Report of the Committee for the Year Ended 31st December 1939
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Indian Jute Mills Association Association Report of the Committee for the Year Ended 31st December 1939

1939

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List of members of the Jute Fabric Brokers Association corrected up to 7th January 1940 169 List of members of the Calcutta Jute Dealers Association corrected up to 14th February 1940 171 List of Chairmen from the inauguration of the Association 174 MernQrauclum of the Association of the Indian Central Jute Committee... [...] Under the terms of this it was agreed to reduce hours of work per week ti 40 and to seal the number of looms necessary to give.the requisite number of loom-hours on the basis of 45 hours per week but with 20% of the registered complement of Hessian looms and 71`)/c ' of the registered complement of Sacking looms sealed. [...] It is argued in some qtfarters that our buyers abroad can well afford to pay and that the higher prices at the moment are to the economic advantage of India provided the accession of wealth is properly spent and directed to the right channeL We have seen the result of unduly high prices in the past and the chaotic condition that the industry has experienced as the result of these and the fact o [...] Lewis the commissioner of Labour for the Bengal Government to discuss matters which are of common interest to us in our work In matters affecting the labour sphere all activity has not been our or that of the agitators : the Government are fully alive to the importance of the question and to the necessity for progress -and we have worked in the closest and friendliest collaboration with them. [...] The raw material.—Last year at this time I sounded a note of warning in regard to restriction of the crop and urged that in any matter of regulation care should be taken not to transgress the laws of supply and demand nor to overlook the influence and trend of international prices.

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425
SARF Document ID
sarf.140685
Published in
India

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