1050 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
I do not think it is necessary at this stage for me to make any very lengthy observations on the Bill as it has emerged from the Select Committee. The Bill had originally seven clauses. Out of the seven clauses it is only four clauses to which the Select Committee have made certain amendments. Those amendments are largely speaking in the direction of liberalising the original provisions contained in the Bill in favour of the workmen. Although I find that some of the amendments made in the Select Committee to the original draft of the Bill have gone somewhat beyond the intentions of the Government, I do not propose to raise any objections to the Bill as it has emerged from the Select Committee. I am prepared to accept it in the form in which it now stands. Sir, I move.
Mr. Deputy President : Motion moved :
“That the Bill further to amend the Factories Act, 1934 as reported by the Select Committee be taken into consideration.”
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*** Monthly Grant to Indian** Federation of Labour
- Shri Satya Narayan Sinha : (a) Has the attention of the Honourable the Labour Member been drawn to the report published in the Sunday Morning Edition of the National Call, dated the 24th March regarding the data available in connection with the monthly grant of Rs. 13,000 for labour propaganda to the Indian Federation of Labour ?
(b) Is it a fact that, when the pay of the propagandists had decreased, the cost of dissemination of news has proportionately increased ?
(c) Is it a fact that the keeping of the accounts was severely criticised by the Auditor-General who has not satisfied with the accounting system ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Yes.
(b) The statement of accounts of the Indian Federation of Labour which placed before the House on 19th March, 1946 shows that variations in the expenditure, resulting in decreases under the heading relating to the ‘pay of propagandists’ and corresponding increases under the heading relating to “dissemination of news” occurred in
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. V of 1946, 8th April 1946, p. 3645.