§ 58. Mr. McEnteeasked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the fact that clerks and other unskilled machine workers are working high-speed woodworking machines under threat of dismissal if they refuse at Messrs. Bluestone and Elvin's works at Hookers Road, Walthamstow; and whether he will instruct his inspectors to prevent this danger to the men concerned and to those working in the vicinity of the machines?
§ Mr. LloydThe report which has been received from the district inspector of factories does not confirm the statement that men without sufficient training are being employed on this class of machine. Regulation 9 of the Woodworking Machinery Regulations, 1922, provides that no person may be employed at a woodworking machine unless he has been sufficiently trained to work that class of machine or unless he works under adequate supervision. The inspector has visited the works but found no breach of the Regulations.
§ Mr. McEnteeIs the hon. Gentleman aware that these men were removed when the inspectors were going there and that the statements made in this question are true?
§ Mr. LloydI understand that other men were engaged who came within the scope of the woodworking regulations.