§ MR. MACFIEasked the hon. Member for Greenwich, with reference to the Workshop Regulation Act (1867) Amendment Bill, Whether he has information, and will put the House in possession of it, as to the number of Women and Young Persons, not being Jews, employed in the Workshops and Manufactories in regard to which penalties for labour on Sundays will, if that Bill become law, cease?
§ SIR DAVID SALOMONS, in reply, said, he was not able to give a complete answer to the Question of the hon. Gentleman. He believed there were but very few employed in workshops and manufactories to whom his Bill would apply. His Bill was only intended to assist the poorest class of Jewish employers and Jewish workmen who keep their Sabbaths. They could not, unless the Bill was passed, have the advantage of six days' work, which the Workshop Act allowed.