The Trade Disputes Act of 1929 provided for
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Answer: D. The Trade Disputes Act, 1929 let the government set up Courts of Inquiry and Boards of Conciliation to settle industrial disputes. It also banned strikes in public utility services without notice and made strikes for non-trade (political) aims illegal. So a system of tribunals and a ban on strikes.
Watch for: Watch for option B; the Act curbed workers, but through government bodies, not management powers.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Wrong because workers' participation in management came much later.
- B. Wrong because the Act did not hand arbitrary powers to management.
- C. Wrong because disputes went to Indian bodies set up under the Act, not a British court.
Source to check: Bipan Chandra et al., India's Struggle for Independence, chapter on the working class; Spectrum, A Brief History of Modern India, 'Labour Movement'
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