MR. HUNTER CRAIG (Lanarkshire, Govan)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention has been called to the practice of employers of labour, particularly in the shipbuilding trade, when paying their pieceworkers, to hand each a sum of money to represent the amount earned, but refuse to give any details of the amount; and will he take steps to remedy this alleged grievance.
8 (Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) Some time ago I received a I representation on the subject from the Boiler Makers' and Iron Shipbuilders' Society, representing the workmen in Glasgow, who ask that the "particulars" section of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, may be applied to the industry. I at once directed an inquiry into the matter, which is one of much difficulty. The inquiry is not yet concluded.