§ 29. Mr. WILLIAM THORNEasked the President of the Local Government Board whether he is aware that the London master builders' secretary, whose address is at Koh-i-noor House, Kingsway, W.C., sent an unemployment card to Mr. C. Cook, addressed to No. 13, Union Road, Leytonstone, which was dated the 16th April, 1914; if he is aware that No. 13, Union Road, Leytonstone, is the private address of the workhouse; if he can state as to whether the master of the workhouse was sent to to get these men; and, if so, how many men were sent or went from the workhouse; if, in future, means will be taken to obviate this kind of thing happening as it did in the dock strike of 1912; if he is aware that Mr. C. Cook was asked on the card in question to apply for work to Mr. J. Carmichael, at Lyle's factory, Plaistow Wharf, Victoria Docks; and if he intends taking any action in the matter?
§ The PRESIDENT of the LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. Herbert Samuel)The Secretary of the London Master Builders' Association has written to me, stating that, in answer to a letter signed Charles Cork (or Cook) asking for employment (apparently in reply to an advertisment), a card was sent to him by the association, but that they had no reason to doubt that 13, Union Road, the address ho gave, was his private address. I have communicated with the guardians of the West Ham Union on the subject, and am informed that no application was made to the workhouse master for any men, and that none were, in fact, sent from the workhouse.