HC Deb 20 January 1931 vol 247 cc15-7
21. Mr. GORDON MACDONALD

asked the Secretary for Mines the names of the countries where holidays with pay are granted to the workers in the coal-mining industry and the classes of colliery workers to which this applies?

Mr. SHINWELL

I understand that holidays with pay are granted to all colliery workers in Czechoslovakia. Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and the Saar, and to certain classes of workers in the Union of South Africa.

Mr. ALBERY

Can the hon. Gentleman say whether this is not also the case in Russia?

Mr. SHINWELL

I must ask the hon. Member to put down that question.

Mr. ALBERY

But it is part of the question. Cannot we have an answer about Russia?