§ Sir W. de FRECEasked the Minister of Labour the present average weekly wage rates in the following industries: coal-mining industry, cotton industry and wool textile industry (Yorkshire: time-workers and pieceworkers (males and females)?
§ Mr. LAWSONIn each of these industries there is a great variety of rates of 993W wages in different occupations and on different processes, and the information in the possession of the Ministry of Labour is insufficient to enable general averages of rates of wages to be calculated.