TRADE BOARDS.

HC Deb 26 November 1919 vol 121 cc1778-80

28. Major HILLS

asked the Minister of Labour if he can give a list of the trades about which inquiries are being made with a view to their inclusion in the Trade Boards Acts?

Mr. WARDLE

I am circulating in the OFFICIAL REPORT a list of the principal trades in which inquiries have recently been, or are being, made with a view to the application of the Trade Boards Acts.

Following is the list referred to:

(1)Trades for which Trade Boards have recently been established:

• Boot and Shoe Repairing.
• Brush and Broom manufacture.
• Corset manufacture.
• Fur dyeing, manufacture, etc.
• Laundry.
• Paper Bag manufacture.
• Tobacco manufacture.

(2)Trades to which the Trade Boards Acts, 1909 and 1918, have been applied by Special Order, and for which Trade Boards will shortly meet:

• Aerated Waters manufacture.
• Button making.
• Coffin Furniture and Cerement making.
• Flax and Hemp (spinning and weaving).
• Hair, Bass, and Fibre (dressing, weaving, etc.).
• Hat, Cap, and Millinery manufacture.
• Jute (spinning and weaving).
• Perambulator and Invalid Carriage manufacture.
• Pin, Hook and Eye and Snap Fastener manufacture.
• Rope, Twine, and Net manufacture.
• Stamped or Pressed Metal-wares manufacture.
• Tailoring (retail bespoke)
• Women's Clothing:
  1. (a) Wholesale Mantle and Costume manufacture.
  2. (b) Dressmaking and making of Women's Light Clothing.

(3)Trades in respect of which Notice of Intention to apply the Acts has been given:

• Jute, Flax, and Hemp finishing.
• Linen and Cotton Handkerchief and Household Goods making, and Linen Piece Goods making-up.
• Milk distribution.
• Toy manufacture.
• Waste Materials reclamation.

(4)Trades in which inquiries are in progress or are being instituted:

• Distributive Trades, including, among others:
  1. (a)Men's and Women's Outfitting and General Drapery Trade.
  2. (b)Grocery and Provision Trade.
  3. (c)Meat Trade.
  4. (d)Fish Trade.
  5. (e)Fruit and Vegetable Trade. Catering.
• Food manufacture.
• Rice and Provender milling.
• Hairdressing.
• Made-up Textiles and Oilskins (including the manufacture of tents, tarpaulins, sails, sou'-westers, and other heavy textile articles).
• Used Sack repairing.
• Machine Embroidering.
• Lace making.
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• Umbrella and Sunshade manufacture.
• Ostrich Feather and Artificial Flower preparing and manufacture.
• Bedding and Allied Trades (manufacture).
• Lint and Bandage manufacture.
• Manufacture of Spurts and Games requisites.
• Manufacture of Braces and Suspenders.
• Manufacture of Textile Smallwares, and Haberdashers' sundries.
• Brass-ware manufacture, including Capstan Lathe work.
• Gas Mantle manufacture

37. Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK

asked the Minister of Labour whether, with a view to improving the wages of the most poorly-paid workers engaged in the manufacture of lace, net, and curtains, he will make an Order applying the Trade Boards Act to those processes of the trade to which it does nut at present apply, and also to those persons who are learning those processes of the trade?

Mr. WARDLE

As my Noble Friend is aware, the Trade Boards Acts already apply to the finishing of machine-made lace and net. Inquiries, which have now reached an advanced stage, have been instituted in the lace, net, and curtain making trade, with a view to ascertaining whether the conditions prevailing in the trade or in any branch thereof render the application of the Trade Boards Acts desirable.