§ Mr. ALBERT SMITHasked whether unemployed benefit will be paid under the National Insurance Bill under the circumstances of a section of workpeople at a particular mill having a grievance which the employer refuses to redress, and as a consequence all the other workpeople employed at that mill giving in their notices in support of the aggrieved section, and in retaliation all the other employers in the town locking out their workpeople, who have no dispute or grievance; and will the latter portion of workpeople be entitled to unemployed benefit?
Mr. BUXTONIf, as I gather from the terms of the question, the workpeople referred to are directly affected by a lockout, they would be precluded by Clause 63 of the Bill from receiving unemployment benefit while the lock-out lasts. It is, however, very difficult to give a general reply to a hypothetical question without reference to all the circumstances of each particular case.