§ MR. CONYBEAREI beg to ask the Secretary for the Home Department whether, in view of the large number of Jewish employés in the workshops of the East End of London and other great industrial centres who cannot understand or speak English and are familiar only with the Yiddish language, he will consider the propriety of appointing for their protection one or two Inspectors conversant with that language?
§ MR. ASQUITHThis question has already received my consideration. I do not consider the appointment of a Yiddish-speaking Inspector necessary. A copy of the Workshop Abstract has already been printed in the Yiddish language in pamphlet form, and can be had free of charge from Mr. Lakeman at his office, 8, Finsbury Circus.
§ MR. CONYBEAREI am much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for his answer. But may I further ask him whether he has had brought under his notice cases in which many of these young men and women, employed in what are in many instances sweating dens, have, in consequence of their ignorance of the English language, to get their employers to translate any conversation they may hold with the Inspector?
§ MR. ASQUITHI have no information as to that.
§ MR. CONYBEAREI will provide the right hon. Gentleman with evidence.