§ Mr. KELLYasked the Minister of Labour the rate of wages paid to men engaged in the china-clay industry in Cornwall for a normal working week?
§ Mr. BETTERTONThe minimum time rates of wages recognised by the employers' association and the trade union concerned are reported to be 1s. per hour for china-clay workers, and 1s. 1d. for semi-skilled and 1s. for unskilled china-stone workers. The agreement of the Joint Standing Industrial Council for the China Clay Industry provides for a normal week of 42 hours and for pieceworkers to be paid at a rate which will enable them to earn not less than time-and-a-third of the ordinary day rate.