§ Mr. JOWETTasked the Secretary to the Treasury if he was aware that contracts had recently been given by the Stationery Department to firms of manufacturers who do not close their factories on Saturday afternoons; and whether he would take steps to prevent Government work being done by such firms in the future?
§ Mr. ILLINGWORTHThe question presumably refers to Contracts for the supply of paper. The National Union of Paper Mill Workers of Great Britain and Ireland recently wrote asking that the Stationery Office would confine its Contracts to manufacturers who shut down their mills from Saturday midday until Monday morning. As it appeared, however, that out of 200 paper mills only fifty-five conformed to the practice) and as these did not include the makers of several classes of papers required by the Stationery Office it was impossible to comply with the request of the Society.