§ MR. JOHN WARDTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he has any official information showing whether the statistics of the Labour Department of New York State are complied from trade union returns that are general to the whole of the United States of America.
(Answered by Mr. Churchill.) In the bulletins issued by the Labour Department of the State of New York the names of the unions from which the statistics are obtained are not given, and it is therefore impossible to state from the official information whether these statistics are compiled from trade union returns which are general to the whole of the United States.