696 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
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- Operation of the Payment of Wages Act on East Indian Railway
- Nawab Siddique AH Khan (on behalf of Qazi Muhammad Ahmad Kazmi): (a) Will the Honourable the Labour Member please state if it is or it is not a fact that lack of effective and proper supervision of the conduct of the Payment of wages Act is responsible for such frequent contravention of the Payment of Wages Act on the East Indian Railway ?
(b) Do Government propose to consider the advisability of making changes in the existing machinery with a view to affording proper and effective check on such contraventions of the Payment of wages Act by the Railway officers ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) What the Honourable Member suggests is not a fact. The very fact that such a large number of irregularities are brought to light every year and rectified at the instance of the Supervisor of Railway Labour proves the effectiveness of the Machinery which now exists for this purpose.
(b) Does not arise.
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@ Representation from Mr. V. G. Balwaik re War Bonus to Workers
- Mr. Govind V. Deshmukh : Will the Honourable Member for Labour please state :
(a) if he has received a representation from Mr. V. G. Balwaik, President, Central Provinces and Berar Provincial Workers’ Federation, Nagpur, in the month of October, 1943, in connection with war bonus to workers ;
(b) if Government have arrived at any decision regarding the condition attached to the additional war bonus by the Empress and Model mills, viz., the Government of India to decide whether more
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. IV of 1943, 17th November 1943, pp. 414-15.
@ Ibid., p. 415.