§ 5. Mr. Russellasked the Minister of Food if he will give an up-to-date list of the classes of industrial and agricultural employees who receive extra rations; and the amount of extra ration in each case.
§ Mr. RussellWould the right hon. Gentleman indicate on what principles these classes of workers are selected for extra rations?
§ Mr. WebbI should be obliged if the hon. Gentleman would await the reply, and then, if he wishes, put down another Question.
§ Following is the information:
7| Class of employee | Conditions of entitlement | Type and current amount, of special rations(s) per week | |||||
| Workers employed on marine craft in estuarial waters; fishermen and the like working under similar conditions. | Habitual employment afloat for the greater part of the time in circumstances which make impracticable the provision of normal catering facilities (afloat or ashore). | In lieu of the ordinary ration scale, the following: | |||||
| Bacon (free of bone) | 8 oz. | ||||||
| Cheese | … | … | 4 oz. | ||||
| Fats | … | … | 14½ oz. | ||||
| Meat | … | … | 40 oz. | ||||
| Milk (condensed) | 1 tin | ||||||
| Sugar | … | … | 16 oz. | ||||
| Tea | … | … | 4 oz. | ||||
| Points | 14 points | ||||||
| Coal miners | … | … | … | … | … | Employment underground | Meat 1s. 6d. (retail price) worth in addition to the ordinary ration. |
| Agricultural workers—all workers employed under contract of service in agriculture and horticulture including ancillary workers e.g., threshing machine workers, tractor workers, travelling blacksmiths and agricultural machinery maintenance engineers. | Employment in such circumstances that, by reason of isolation, conditions of work etc., ordinary catering facilities cannot be used and the provision of canteen or packed meal services is impracticable. | Cheese 12 ounces in lieu of the ordinary ration. |
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| Building trade operatives in rural areas | … | ||||||
| Canal boatmen | … | … | … | … | … | ||
| Canal maintenance workers | … | … | … | ||||
| Charcoal burners working in forests | … | ||||||
| Civil engineering workers in rural areas | … | ||||||
| Clay industry workers (including brick and tile workers). | |||||||
| Coal borers | … | … | … | … | … | ||
| Coal distributive workers | … | … | … | ||||
| Electrical contracting workers in rural areas | … | ||||||
| Electrical linesmen and workers employed with them in rural areas. | |||||||
| Electrical sub-station staff in small isolated sub-stations. | |||||||
| Fishermen | … | … | … | … | … | ||
| Flour and provender mill workers in small mills in country areas. | |||||||
| Forestry workers, including workers at forest mills and timber workers employed in small sawmills in country districts. | |||||||
| Gas main layers | … | … | … | ||||
| Land drainage and catchment board workers | … | ||||||
| Miners working underground | … | … | … | ||||
| Ordnance survey field revisers | … | … | |||||
| Post Office external engineering workmen | … | ||||||
| Quarrymen-workers in roadstone, limestone, ironstone and slate quarries. | |||||||
| Railway manual workers | … | … | … | ||||
| Roadmen and scavengers employed by county and rural district councils. | |||||||
| Sand, chalk and gravel pit workers | … | … | |||||
| Scale repairers—service adjusters engaged on repairs and/or contracts. | |||||||
| Sewage farms and works employees | … | … | |||||
| Slag workers procuring slag for road construction purposes. | |||||||
| Surface workers at coal and ironstone mines | … | ||||||
| Trunk road workers (Ministry of Transport) engaged in experimental road surfacing in isolated areas. | |||||||
| Wagon repairers at railway and colliery sidings | |||||||
| Water bailiffs (permanent) | … | … | … | ||||
| Waterworks undertakings-workers employed at pumping stations, nitration plants, reservoirs, etc., and on aqueducts and trunk mains. |