§ 33. Mr. JOHN DAVISONasked the Minister of Labour whether, seeing that it is the policy of his Department to encourage the establishment of Joint Industrial Councils and to help to maintain those already formed, he will make representations to the Hammersmith Borough Council with a view to inducing that body to refrain from severing its connection with the National Industrial Council for the electrical supply industry?
§ Sir M. BARLOWIt is the policy of my Department to encourage the establishment of Joint Industrial Councils in suitable cases and to help to maintain those already formed. The councils are, of course, voluntary bodies, and I have no authority to press particular employers to become or to remain members.