§ MR. D. CRAWFORD (Lanark, N.E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to a complaint of the blast furnace men of Scotland, that although they are paid by weight they have no power to check the weighing: and whether he will consider the propriety of giving them some security in the matter such as certain other trades enjoy?
§ MR. ASQUITHThis matter is under consideration, but I cannot make a definite statement until the inquiries which I am directing into the subject in England and Wales, as well as in Scotland, are completed.