Mr. PALMERasked the Home Secretary if he will require the factory of Messrs. Westwoods, Millwall, to provide a messroom for the several hundred employés engaged?
Mr. HENDERSONI have received a Report from the Factory Inspector, which, shows that none of the persons employed, with the exception of about a dozen men, remain on the premises for dinner. The majority of the workers live close to the works and go home for dinner. The manager says he has received no requests for the provision of any messroom or other special facilities of this kind. I have only power to make an Order requiring the provision of a messroom where I am satisfied that the conditions and circumstances of employment or the nature of the processes carried on are such as to require such special provision to be made; and on the facts at present before me there would appear to be no grounds which would justify the making of such Order for the works in question.