§ Mr. Marshallasked the Home Secretary on what grounds a trade union application has been rejected, the object of which was to raise the wages to 1s. per hour of part-time barmaids working under the Carlisle State Management Scheme and to concede a full day's holiday each week to full-time barmen and barmaids; and will he, in view of the reasonableness of this claim and the discontent among these workers, instruct the secretary of the scheme to at once open negotiations with the union concerned?
§ Sir J. AndersonI am advised that the wages paid to part-time barmaids employed by the State Management compare favourably with those obtaining generally in the trade and that there are no grounds on which the State Management would be justified in granting increases of wages at the present time. As regards full-time workers, their wages are based on the present hours of work, and any change in the weekly hours would involve the questions of adjustment of wage rates.