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* Labour Policy of Government of India
Mr. Deputy President (Mr. Akhil Chandra Datta): Discussion will now be resumed on the cut motion moved by Mr. Joshi yesterday.
Prof. N. G. Ranga : Sir, myself and my Party wholeheartedly associate ourselves with the cut motion moved by Mr. Joshi.
Some Honourable Members : The question be now put.
Mr. Deputy President (Mr. Akhil Chandra Datta): The question is...
Mr. H. A. Sathar H. Essak Sait (West Coast and Nilgiris: Muhammadan): What about the Government’s reply ?
Mr. Deputy President (Mr. Akhil Chandra Datta): I waited but did not find anybody getting up.
(At this stage, the Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was seen to rise in his seat).
Mr. Deputy President (Mr. Akhil Chandra Datta): Does the Honourable Member want to speak ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Labour Member): Yes.
Mr. Deputy President (Mr. Akhil Chandra Datta): The House is impatient.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I will try to keep my patience. I will promise that.
In the course of the observation which Mr. Joshi made yesterday in support of his cut motion, he levelled certain charges against the Labour Department. At the conclusion he not only stated that the Labour Department had failed in dealing adequately with the duties which are cast upon it to conserve and protect the interests of the workers but he also ended by saying, which I thought was a somewhat extravagant observation, that the Labour Department had not even sympathy for
*Discussion on Demand No. 23 of the Labour Department. Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. II, 13th March 1945, pp. 1456-62.