1. Regarding the supply of labour to industrial centers in the initial stages of industrial development the Royal Commission of Labour had remarked that. Small centers everywhere draw on the surrounding rural areas for all the workers they require, expect the labour demanding special skills. The only centers which have reached the stages o f dying compelled to go far a field for the bulk of their labour are Jamshedpur and two big industrial areas of Bombay and Hooghly. While in the West, factory workers are drawn mainly from amongst persons brought up in the towns and partly from amongst those who have abandoned the villages for towns.