§ Sir W. Edgeasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will investigate the complaint of a 40 year old married woman whose name and address have been supplied to him, that though she is working 48 hours a week as a boot and shoe machinist and has been carrying out street fire-watching duties during alerts she is now called on to attend distant lectures and training one night a week for an indefinite period so that she cannot properly discharge her domestic duties; and whether insistence on extra night-work can be enforced.
§ Mr. H. MorrisonTraining in fire guard duties is essential to the efficiency of fire guards and is compulsory for persons who have to perform those duties. I am looking into the complaint to which my hon. Friend has drawn my attention and will communicate with him as soon as possible.