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J.P. $RIVASTAFA miners, fillers and textile laborers, there is no real difficulty in the amount of labor potentially available. No difficulty in that direction can be experienced if the employers adopt more systematic method of re- cruitment and try to make the conditions of work in mines and mills more congenial to the laborers. I! recruiting is organized properly by men known in the districts from which it is hoped to draw the recruits then there should be no difficulty in getting a sufficient labor supply by ordinary voluntary methods. The surplus populatibn of the overcrowded tracts d?s not migrate at once to places where the establishment of new industries offers better chances of employment; such emigration as takes place is usually slow and partial. The demand for labor is continuous. Under these circumstances it is very necessary that all indus- trial concerns must have a permanent Lat5or Depart- ment under the charge of a man of good l)osition 'knowing fully the economic conditions of the recruiting districts. The recruiting should be gon_e ab?.ut conti- nously under the supervision of the of?cer in charge of the Department. institution they can In the absence of this kind of have no possibilities of a steady flow of labor to and from the recruiting districts, mines and factories. The next question arises how to keep a steady flow of labor by recruiting. This brings us to the question of organization and method of recruiting. ?l'he Preset System of the Supply of Labo? Before it is poir?ted out what method and org&niza- tion for recruiting labor should be adopted, we should know the process generally followed the Xndustrial concerns of Xndia. Mostly the of recruiting by work is in the hands of illiterate Sardars' or