Move to Link Bodies to Improve Working Conditions in India London, May 25. urgency of taking a "mighty stop? for link up' the British and nian trade union movements is Mtrensed in s report by Bie. Albert Author' Purcell, the Labour MP. IMa''Mr. Hallsworth, who recently returned from a tour of India Tehalt "of the Trade Union Con Painting a melancholy picture of the "disgustingly bad. housing contions: the report says Uhat 8 vast fnajoriiy of the workers in India dio not Feceive more than 1/- a day. They are chait-starveely badly lot and horribly housed:
The. report estimates. the strength of the trade. unio India. at 200,000 compared with the 25 milieu capable of organization. it describes the tea. plantations Assam as "virtually a slave planta. riem" where "the. human trinity" Shisband, wife and. child—brings more than 1/34 a day.
Messrs, Purcell and Hallsworth express. the opinion that in India there is the presence of tremendous forces, which sooner or later will te applied to a rest expansion of manufacturing activity, when the Working class of Britain, Europe tad. Ameriewn wi severe shock ud see a ery great change,
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