§ Mr. J. BAKERasked the Secretary for Mines if he has any information showing the hours actually worked in French and German coal mines now and a year ago?
§ Colonel LANE FOXThe length of the shift for underground workers employed in the Rhenish Westphalian coalfield is now eight hours, as it was a year ago. In the Upper Silesian coalfield it has been reduced from 8½ hours to eight hours. In France, where no change has occurred during the past 12 months, it is from 7½ to 7½ hours.