ABSTRACT
The Madras Government in January 1920 created the office of "Labour Commissioner," and appointed Paddison, whose work in Madura has been described. Labour unrest first began to show itself actively in 1918, when political anti-Government propaganda was active, and rising prices unaccompanied by corresponding increases of wages caused discontent. In Mr. Gandhi’s organ Young India, a weekly broadsheet, he remarked in one issue that the political trouble in India resulted from the fact that Englishmen looked down upon Indians as inferiors. The two big cotton mills, Buckingham and Carnatic, have had a lot of disputing. The operatives are better treated than in any other mill in India, or than any other large lot of workers in Madras, but they are also disciplined. Indians should follow the Gandhi's advice to study the natural laws of health and abstain from the excesses that cause disease, but they should not suppose that Government dispensaries and hospitals were of no value.
