HC Deb 10 August 1888 vol 330 c333
MR. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM (Lanark, N.W.)

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he would make inquiries as to the truth of the statement that the mills of Messrs. Robinson, Currie, & Co., in Aberdeen (whose workers are at present on strike) have been for the last few years run 15 minutes per day more than the legal time; and, if he will order the practice to be stopped?

THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. MATTHEWS) (Birmingham, E.)

, in reply, said, he had instructed the Chief Inspector of Factories to make immediate inquiry into the truth of the statement.