29. Mr. FOOTasked the Minister of Labour the number of miners who are at present unemployed consequent upon the closing down of the Cornish mines?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAThe number of persons engaged in copper, tin, lead, etc. mining whose unemployment insurance books were lodged at Employment Exchanges and local offices in Cornwall on 20th March was 2,550.
Sir J. D. REESIn the distribution of relief, who will take precedence—the Russian or the Cornish unemployed?