L. A. DEBATES (CENTRAL) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 803
Mr. N. M. Joshi : May I know whether it is not a fact that the coal production today is less than the prewar period and whether this shortage of coal production is not due to the smallness of the wages paid to the miners ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : My Honourable friend is entitled to draw his own inference.
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*** Provincial Governments’ Contribution to** Radical Democratic Party and Indian Labour Federation
- Sir Abdul Halim Ghuznavi : Will the Honourable the Labour Member please state :
(a) whether office bearers or any individual of the Radical Democratic Party or of the Indian Federation of Labour receive monetary help from the different Provincial Governments besides Rs. 13,000 per month from the Central Government;
(b) whether he is aware that these two organisations receive a sum of Rs. 75,000 per month from the Government of the United Provinces;
(c) The object of the Government in giving monetary help to these two organisations only; and
(d) which the other labour organisations are which receive monetary help from the Government ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) Government has no information. The grant of Rs. 13,000 is made not to the Radical Democratic Party but to the Indian Federation of Labour and not to any individual member or office-bearer of the Federation. The letter in which assistance from Government was offered was addressed both to the All-India Trade Union Congress and the Indian Federation of Labour. In their reply the All-India Trade Union Congress did not ask for any assistance.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. IV of 1944, 10th November 1944, p. 568.