HC Deb 27 January 1930 vol 234 cc639-40W
Major GLYN

asked the Minister of Labour what are the equivalent weekly rates of pay, compared with persons similarly employed in their country at trade union rates, of individuals employed in the following occupations in the countries indicated, in each case expressing the salaries and wages in sterling on the basis of present rates of exchange: policeman, postman, engineer (shopman), marine engineer, locomotive engineer,

South Derbyshire, together with the figures for the corresponding period of 1929.

Miss BONDFIELD,

pursuant to her reply [OFFICIAL REPORT, 23rd January; col. 306, Vol. 234], supplied the following statement:

Mr. LAWSON

The following table shows the numbers of persons on the registers of Employment Exchanges in the Newcastle-on-Tyne area* at the dates given:

municipal sanitary workman, dock labourer, cotton operator (female), coal miner, agricultural labourer (average), and tradesman carpenter, in France, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovak Republic, the United States of America, and Australia?

Miss BONDFIELD

I am having a statement prepared which will contain such of the desired particulars as are available, and will communicate it to the hon. and gallant Member as soon as it is ready.