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Labour Organisation. As on 31st December 1967, there were 34 trade unions in the district registered under the Trade Unions Act of 1926. The total membership of these unions was 4,934. The following table gives the information pertaining to these unions regarding membership, affiliation and the industry it represented.

TABLE No. 14

Information about Trade Unions for the year ending 31st December 1967, Akola District

Sr. No.	Name of the Union	Membership	Affiliation	Category of union
1.	Akola Gin Press Kamgar Union, Akola	316	Not affiliated	Cotton ginning and pressing
2.	Gin Press Kamgar Union, Akola	100	Information not available	,,
3.	Factory Kamgar Union, Akot	493	,,	,,
4.	Flour Mill Workers' Union, Akola	,,	Registration cancelled since 24-12-1968	Flour mills
5.	Poha Industries Workers' Union, Akola	13	Not affiliated	Dal mills
6.	National Berar Oil Industries Workers' Union, Akola	388	,,	Hydrogenated oil industry
7	Rashtriya Shramik Sangh, Akola	236	,,	Hydrogenated oil industry and 23 textile units
8.	Akola Textile Clerk's Association. Akola	17	,,	Cotton mills and other textile units
9.	Girni Kamgar Union, (La! Bavata) Akola	447	,,	,,
10.	Rashtriya Press Kamgar Union. Akola	,,	Information not available	Printing, publishing & allied industries
11.	Tiles Industry Workers" Union. Akola	38	Not affiliated	Tiles

TABLE No. 14—Contd.

Sr. No.	Name of the Union	Membership	Affiliation	Category of union
12.	Gumasta Union, Akola	133	Information not available	Shop employees
13.	Gumasta Mandal, Karanja	61	,,	,,
14.	Rashtriya Janata Consumers Karmachari Sangh, Akola	61	Information not available	Shop employees
15.	Sahakari Bank Karmachari Union, Akola	74	,,	Banking
16.	Brooke Bond Employees' Union, Akola	23	Not affiliated	Commercial concerns
17.	Life Insurance Agents' Association, Akola	,,	Information not available	Life insurance
18.	Akola Zilla Grampanchayat Kamgar Union. Risod	81	Not affiliated	Local Gram Panchayat workers Risod
19.	Akola Zilla Devi Doctor Sangh, Akola	166	Information not available	Hospitals & dispensaries
20.	Shri Karanja Cotton Market Kapus Vyapari Sangh, Akola	31	Information not available	Activities not adequately described
21.	Akola Majoor Sangh, Akola	888	,,	,,
22.	Sahakar Dudha Yojana	22	,,	Manufacturing of dairy products
23.	Maharashtra Motor Kamgar Sangh, Akola	,,	,,	Motor transport
24.	Nagarpalika Karmachari Union, Washim	64	Information not available	Medical & other public health services, services of local bodies
25.	Karanja Nagarpalika Karmachari Sangh, Karanja	,,	Registration cancelled on 24-12-1968	,,
26.	Akola Nagarpalika Karmachari Sangh, Akola	,,	,,	,,
27.	Municipal Octroi Workers Union, Akola	18	Not affiliated	,,
28.	Murtizapur Nagarpalika Karmachari Sangh, Akola	18	Information not available	,,
29.	Nagarpalika Kamgar Union	167	Not affiliated	,,
30.	Akola Nagarpalika Rashtriya Majdoor Sangh, Akola	411	,,	,,
31.	Nagarpalika Rugnalaya Karmachari Sangh, Karanja	,,	Information not available	,,
32.	Hospital Karmachari Union, Akola	182	Not affiliated	Hospitals & dispensaries
33.	Punjab National Bank Employees Association, Akola	161	Information not available	Banking
34.	Rashtriya Motor Workers Union, Akola	261	,,	Road transport

During the year 1968, 388 complaints under various labour laws were received. Of these 80 were settled in favour of workers, 75 were indeterminate or untenable, two were withdrawn, two were sent to appropriate authorities and the remaining were pending, in respect of 149 complaints, awards given were not in favour of workers.

Table No. 15 gives the details regarding the industrial disputes in the district.

TABLE No. 15

Retails of Industrial Disputes, Workers Involved and Man-days lost in Akola District

Year*	Locality	Number of Industrial disputes			Workers involved			Mandays lost
1	2	Tex. 3	Misc. 4	Total 5	Tex 6	. Misc. 7	Total 8	Tex 9	Misc. 10	. Total 11
1958	Akola	—	2	2	—	42	42	—	126	126
	Mangrulpir	—	1	1	—	19	19	—	190	190
1959	Akola	2	—	2	2958	—	2958	2629	—	2629
1963	Akola	—	5	5	—	1614	1614	—	5329	5329
1964	Akola	—	2	2	—	471	471	—	5358	5358
	Mangrulpir	—	1	1	—	19	19	—	57	57
1965	Akola	—	1	1	—	50	50	—	900	900
	Karanja	—	2	2	—	9186	9186	—	52776	52776
1966	Akola	1	4	5	1731	1593	3324	694	5267	5961
	Karanja	—	2	2	—	415	415	—	8025	8025
	Paras	—	1	1	—	237	237	—	237	237
1967	Akola	—	6	6	—	1532	1532	—	5832	5832
1968	Akola	1	4	5	1199	100	1299	1199	2515	3714
	Karanja	—	1	1	—	400	400	—	400	400
	Shegaon	—	1	1	—	69	69	—	345	345
	Washim	—	2	2	—	144	144	—	468	468

Tex.—Textile industry.

Misc.—Miscellaneous industries.

*No disputes were reported in 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961 and 1962.

In Akola district, the minimum rates of wages under the Minimum Wages Act of 1948 have been fixed for (I) rice, flour and dal mills, (2) tobacco (including bidi) manufacturing, (3) oil-mills, (4) local authority, (5) road construction and building operations, (6) maintenance of roads, (7) stone breaking or crushing, (8) public motor transport, (9) tanneries and leather manufacturing, (10) residential hotels, restaurants and eating houses, (11) printing presses, (12) cotton ginning and cotton pressing, (13) glass industry, (14) shops or commercial establishments, (15) potteries, (16) rubber, (17) paper and paper board and (18) cinemas.

The labour welfare activities in the entire State are conducted by the Maharashtra Labour Welfare Board, a statutory body constituted under the Bombay Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1953. it conducts 84 labour welfare centres, including sub-centres at 41 industrial towns of the Stale. The Board conducts five welfare centres in Akola district, of which four are located at Akola and one at Karanja. At the two centres at Akola full-fledged nursery schools are run to impart pre-primary education to the working class children. The Board also conducts two Shishu Mandirs in Akola and a Shishu Varga at Karanja.

All these labour welfare activities are supervised by Workers' Welfare Officer with headquarters at Akola. He is responsible to the Assistant Welfare Commissioner, Nagpur.

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