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FILMINDIA
but in the studios with the inevitable rough handling it doesn't require many days for these cables to get old and get cracked in several places. It is at this time that the danger is imminent.
Our producers who are worried with numerous financial embarrassments can hardly think of attending to this lurking danger to the lives of their employees.
But some one else must attend to this if human lives are to be saved. And the best people to do this job are the Government. It is high time that some one should be appointed to inspect periodically all the electric fittings and equipment" in the studios and certify their condition. The man should have unquestionable integrity and character. He must know his job well and do it conscientiously. And he must be above bribes and drinks. Because our studio owners often bribe away inquisitive officials, with an ease that proclaims them as past masters in the art.
When will the Government appoint this man? We wonder whether they even know of the recent accident. Perhaps the Government is too busy improving the lot of the village farmers to worry about our studio workers. Let us wait and see what is being done.
OTHERS STARVE
Accidents punctuate the course of human life and are looked upon as an inevitable phase, of modern civilization. But all accidents, whether small or big, leave behind painful memories and bad scars.
The average studio worker is not much of a well paid man and hardly gets a living wage. Saving in such cases is out of the question. And when such a man dies suddenly in an accident; he leaves behind several dependents who are thrown
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on the streets unless the employers grant some compensation for the death.
But employers are not so charitable and the Commissioner of Workmen's Compensation has enough work in the mills to look after our studio workers.
Time and again, we have been writing about the enforcing of the Workmen's Compensation Act, but beyond the Commissioner sending some preliminary forms, nothing seems to have been done.
The Commissioner should have taken steps to inform the studio workers that in . case of accidents compensation can be secured from the employers. He has not done so and no one in our studios seems to know of the Workmen's Compensation Act as it exists to-day.
We should like to know what is the Commissioner doing if not his job?
Answering this question is the responsibility of the Hon. Mr. B. G. Kher the people's Premier.
THE ACT DOESN'T ACT!
The lot of the studio workers is not very happy. They work sometimes for forty-eight hours continuously and get a holiday once in a blue moon. And yet Bombay claims a legislation called the "Factory Act".
They say that the Factory Act has been applied to the film studios. We want to know how it is enforced, when and by whom and in which studio?
Go wherever you like and you will find men overworked and doing jobs at odd hours.
What are the inspectors doing? Ask the studio proprietors. They know exactly what the inspectors are doing. We wish we could tell.