4. Mr. Scott-Elliotasked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that shortage of workers in certain sections of the calico printing industry is causing serious delay to export for important markets; and what action he proposes to take to remedy this situation.
§ Mr. Ness EdwardsNo, Sir. If my hon. Friend has any particular instance in mind, I should be grateful if he would let me have particulars.
Mr. Scott-ElliotWould my right hon. Friend have another look at this matter, because my information is that large quantities of printing cloth lie for a very considerable time after they have been manufactured and that that is very largely due to lack of labour in the printing works?
§ Mr. Ness EdwardsI only want to say that we have no vacancies notified to the Ministry of Labour for this kind of work.