HC Deb 10 July 1893 vol 14 cc1245-6

Lords' Amendments considered; several agreed to.

MR. MUNDELLA

said, there was a particular Amendment at the end of the 1st clause which had been agreed to by the Lords, and which was to restrict the operation of the Act to those employés of Railway Companies who were actually engaged in the transit of goods and traffic. His right hon. Friend the Member for Bristol had an Amendment to the Lords' Amendment which he would move, and which he (Mr. Mundella) was pre- pared to accept. It was quite evident that the words inserted in the other place were far too wide, and would leave the railway servants in the great difficulty of not knowing who among them were included and who were excluded from the operations of the Bill. He hoped, therefore, that the House would not agree with the Lords' Amendment.

SIR M. HICKS-BEACH (Bristol, W.) moved the following Amendment to the Lords' Amendment:— New Sub-section 7, at the end of the 1st clause, to insert these words—"This Act shall not apply to any servants of a Railway Company who is, in the opinion of the Board of Trade, wholly employed in clerical work or in the Company's workshops.

MR. GIBSON BOWLES

said, this seemed to him an important Amendment; and, before it was considered, he should like to know whether there was really a Board of Trade, or whether the Board was a bogus thing represented solely by the President?

Amendment agreed to.

Lords' Amendment, as amended, agreed to.