Morning News
17th April 1957
Labour Advisory Board Meets
By a Staff Reporter
The East Pakistan Minister for Commerce, Labour and Industries, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, addressing a meeting of the East Pakistan Labour Advisory Board in Dacca yesterday, said that the main objective of the Government’s labour policy had been justice for all”.
The Minister, who was presiding over the meeting held in the Cabinet Secretariat, claimed that the Government tried to create conditions in which the investors should feel secure and assured of fair return of their investment and the workers were happy and assured of fair wages for their labour. These were the conditions in which, he thought industry should prosper and labour should flourish. The agenda of yesterday’s meeting included, among other things, the general labour situation in the province, measures necessary to maintain industrial peace and to improve employer-employee relationship, fixation of minimum wages and speedier conciliation of industrial disputes. Yesterday’s deliberations were confined to general discussion in which Mr. Aftab Ali, Mr. M. A. Jalil, Mr. Fazlul Quader Choudhury, Mr. Zahur Ahmed Choudhury, Mr. P. K. Sen Gupta, Mr. M. R. Khadem and Mr. A. K. Khan participated. A sub-committee was formed with Mr. Zahur Ahmed Choudhury, Mr. Mominuddin Ahmed, Mr. Md. Sulaiman, Mr. P. K. Sen-Gupta, Mr. Deben Das, MPA, Mr. Faiz Ahmed and Mr. Mazlur Rahman, representing the workers, and Mr. M. A. Jalil, Mr. Ravenseroft, Mr. H. P. Carse, Brigadier M. A. Latif Khan, Mr. A. F. Khan and M.R. K. C. Chakrabarty representing the industrialists to discuss threadbare the subjects included in the agenda and submitted body. The sub-committee will meet today.