Source: Labour Monthly Vol. VI, May 1924, No. 5.
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ONE hundred and fifty thousand mill operatives, including thirty
thousand women and children, have been on strike and locked-out
of the textile mills of Bombay for nearly three months. All the
mills of the district, eighty-three in number, are closed down.
The question at issue is the payment of the annual bonus to the
operatives, in addition to their usual wage. In July of last
year, the owners put up a notice that the usual bonus, received
by the operatives during the last five years and regarded by
them as a form of supplementary wages, would not be paid. The
men did not heed the notice, most of them being illiterate, and
it was not until the end of the year when the bonus became
payable that they realised the i