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LABOR 8UPPL Y jobbers. They go about here much knowing how to pick up to workshops or factories with a them after There is themselves districts where ?pending none to know they and laborers certain all the money taken guide them because less about the conditions there without and return number of by them. employers of the to for labor supply. ly on knowJ?ge of ?heir own Besides can possibly go Under these circumstances they depend entire- these Sardars, the people Tahsil or to this the recruiting Mistris or Jobbers whose and district is limited to their distric? at the most. work is done here and there at the time when the employers feel the pinch' of the scarcity of labor. to carry out the work. the There is no definite policy Organization The first step in the recruiting experienced selection of tactful, organization is miners, factory laborers or Sardars of the recruiting districts to work as recruiters. They should never be given the charge of more than a Tahsil because their influence and their knowledge of the people never goes beyond it. The second thing is that there should be some agency to advertize the conditions of wages of work and advantages of the industrial work. rising or educating work should be handbills.and illustrated pamphlets and This salver- done through also through the laborers themselves who come on leave. But it must be borne in mind that it is possible through ?hem only if they return home satisfied with the condition of work, wages and the treatment of the employers. Principle and Method of Recruiting 'The underlying principle of recruitment should be increase the miners or factory laborers population