Condition of Labourers in Factories.

WHEN Indian workmen in British Colonies have grievance concerning conditions of employment and treatment, considerable indignation is aroused in India. This is only natural. But we ask whether our leaders have taken equal interest in the welfare of Indian workmen in large factories, workshops and mines in India itself? The conditions under which most of them work and the wages paid to them are, in our opinion, far from satisfactory. Only the other day the workmen in the railway workshop at Sukkur struck work, among their grievances being the stoppage of free passes and the compulsory grant of holidays for which they got no wages. How far these and other grievances are reasonable must be ascertained from independent men; and these matters must not be left to be adjusted between powerful employers and the weak workmen.