§ Mr. SNOWDENasked the Home Secretary if he is aware that a dispute has been in progress for several weeks at the works of Henry Livesey, Limited, Green-bank Foundry, Blackburn; that last week strike breakers were imported; that these strike breakers are being lodged and fed on the works premises; and what action he proposes to take, in view of the breach of the factory law by lodging employés on the premises of manufacture?
§ Mr. McKENNAI have made inquiry into this matter. It appears that a number of workmen are being lodged and fed on the premises of the factory, but there is no provision in the Factory Acts which makes it illegal to lodge employés on factory premises, and the inspector who visited the premises was unable to discover that the Acts were being contravened in any way.