§ 38. Mr. LOVAT-FRASERasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that boys and girls from 14 to 18 years of age in the Midlands and elsewhere are working 12 hours a day, inclusive of meal times, on five days in the week and half a day on Saturday; and whether he will take steps to introduce legislation to stop these excessive hours of work?
§ Sir J. SIMONI am aware that such hours are still worked in a certain number of cases, at any rate during busy periods. As announced by the Prime Minister in the course of Debate on the 3rd instant it is the hope and purpose of the Government to introduce a consolidating and amending Factories Bill next Session.