§ Mr. HANNONasked the Minister of Labour the amount of real wages per week paid to girl weavers in Japanese textile factories and girl workers in the rubber-shoe industry, including any allowances or bonus in addition to money payment; and what are the corresponding figures for female workers in these trades in this country?
§ Sir H. BETTERTONI regret that the information in my possession does not enable me to give comparable particulars of the real wages paid to work-people engaged in textile weaving or in rubber shoe manufacture in Japan and Great Britain. Information with regard to the money wages of work-people employed in the textile industries and in a number of other industries in Japan is given in the Reports of the British Economic Mission to the Far East (1930–31) in the Report on "Industrial Labour in Japan" recently published by the International Labour Office, and in the Report on "Economic Conditions in Japan", recently issued by the Department of Overseas Trade. A proposal to institute a comprehensive international inquiry into conditions in the textile industries with a view to obtaining comparable statistics has been under consideration by the International Labour Organisation, but it has not yet been found possible to commence the actual collection of figures.