Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1931, Page 22

LE T3 lAB[lR CONDITIONS “ININDIA DEPLORED| - British Commusslon Blames Stark Poverty for Nation’s g Inefficiency. By the Associated Press LONDON, July 2.—An indictment of | labor conditions in India and indirect approval of Western, and particularly American, economic philosophy regard- | ing wages were contained in a report of The Royal Ccmmision, which last night handed the House of Commons the con- clusions of its two-year stu ‘The voluminous docum pages deals with labor con general and their infience on the life | of Indlan workmen, | Compiled at a cost of approximately £79.000 (about $395,000). the rzport em- bodies the ideas of several hundred wit- nesses heard by the commission, which was headed by John Henry Whitley, former speaker of the House of Com- mons. The study was authorized July 4, 1929, Various groups of Indian industrial life were represented on the commis~ sion, whose report was unanimcus. the major workers was the st overty which stalks living conditions in that country. Limitation of hcurs, elimination of child labor and the general improve- ( ment, of living conditions form tae high | spots of recommendations “Hardships and the conditions of workers result mainly from the inability to afford something better,” the report “Thus poverty lcads to bad con- | . bad conditions and inefficiency | “There must be an endeavor to en- hance the efficlency, to heighten earn- | ings and to improve conditions of life.” | Running the gamut of Indian indus:- trial life, the report touched on rail- ways, factories, mines, textiles mills and agriculture. Given No Rest Days. It was shown in the wage table. which | the commission said it gathered with| difficulty. 2 Vi me indus- tries were d a day for adults, In the l‘lQm‘"K 'n’\k ing business small children from 6 to 10 years old worked for 4 cents a d2y, some times for as much as 12 to 14 hours dai little or no rest pericds in a se week The same situation was found to be | true in the mines and the wool industry where youngsters were employed for long hours. The wages of skilled crafts: as carpetners ranged {rom monthly, according to the Ul skilled workers were paid from $4 to $6 | monthly. ‘ The committee struck t what 1t termed the “vicio! by which the employment missal of workers were vested in a native, usually apart from the utive forces. “The employ of labor unions should combine to stamp it out,” the re- port said in discussing charges that overseers collected part of the natives’ pay in return for giving workers a job. Pitfalls Are Cited. An entire chapter of the report was devoted to pitfalls flv\altmg the ignorant peasant worker who comes to industrial areas in search of work. Among these was listed money sharks, whom the committee found collecting interest rates as high as 20 per cent monthly on loans The report took the view that prohi- bition or restriction in the sale of in- toxicating liquors would be good for India, raising efficiency and assisting workmen to get out of debt The unejual distribu of males and females in industricl sections alarmed the commission, which heard figures purporting to show that there are two females for each male in five Jarge towns as an average of inequality for the period from 1921 to 1931 Housing conditions were called ‘‘de- lorable and wretched” and were lamed for the high infant death rate which nppro‘(imat"< 250 per 1. 000. RESIDENT OF CAPITAL 60 YEARS, SUCCUMBS Mrs. Sarah Shreve, Native of Wales, 81, Had Been in Poor Health Six Mofiths. Mrs. Sarah Shreve, widow cf James H. Shreve, died yesterday at the ©of her daughter, Mrs. Charles A. Lyons, 1369 Meridian place. Mrs. Shreve, who was 81 years old n in poor health bout six having failed to fully recover gth after an attack of pneu- monia last Winter She became seriously ill again about a month ago and had been in a semi- conscious condition for the last two weeks. Born in Wales, Mrs. Shreve came to ‘Washington about 60 years ago. Death claimed her husband 20 years later. Besides Mrs. Lyons, Mrs. Shreve is survived by another daughter, Mrs. L. R. Dickerson, and a son, Samuel R her children are dead. 2 will be buried in gressicnal Cem following funeial at her late reside MRS. M. E. HOLLINGSHEAD DIES AT AGE OF 80 Mrs. Mary Ellen Hollingshead. 80 years old, died yesterday at her b at 106 Rosemary street, Chevy Cl She had been ill about two ices at 10 o'clo Mrs. Hollingshead, who was born in Pennsylvania, is- survived by her nus- band, Samuel A. 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