§ Mr. Kellyasked the Minister of Labour whether he will state the rate of wages
Time rates of wages agreed upon by Sectional or District Councils of the National Joint Industrial Council for the Quarrying Industry. Sectional or District Council. Class of Worker. Rate of Wages. Per hour. Grade A districts.* s. d. Yorkshire Area Industrial Council for the Sandstone and Freestone Quarrying Industry. Delvers and hewers 1 7 Bottom delvers and hewers 1 5½ Saw frame feeders 1 4 Labourers 1 2¼ Leicestershire Area District Joint Industrial Council for the Granite Quarrying Industry. Labourers 1 1 Clitheroe and District Joint Industrial Council for the Quarrying and Road Materials Industry. Firemen 1 5⅜ Getters and borers 1 3⅜ Labourers 1 1 Derbyshire and District Limestone and Roadstone Aggregates Industrial Council. Getters 1 7¼ Getters' assistants arid Poppers 1 3⅞ General labourers 1 2 District Joint Industrial Council for the Roadstone Quarrying Industry (No. 7 Area) (Counties of Gloucester, Devon, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Somerset, Cornwall, Dorset and Isle of Wight). Drillers and men engaged on barring-down whist so engaged and responsible mixer men. 1 2¾ Skilled quarrymen and men actually feeding into crusher jaws. 1 1¾ Unskilled adult workers 1 0¾ Per hour. Counties of Glamorgan, Monmouth, Radnor and Brecon. s. d. South Wales and Monmouthshire District Joint Industrial Council for the Quarrying Industry. Drillers and men engaged on barring-down, and mixer men. 1 3 Quarrymen (including all men working on floor of quarry) and crusher feeders. 1 2 Adult unskilled labourers 1 1 South Wales Joint Industrial Council for the Pennant Stone Industry. Drillers and barrers-down 1 3 Breakers-up and crusher men 1 2 Labourers 1 1 National Sectional Council for the Chalk Quarrying Industry. Day workers 1 2¼ *Huddersfield, Crosland Moor, Bradford District (including Thornton, Shipley, Idle and Queensbury), Keighley district (including Haworth), Halifax and Brighouse districts and Horsforth. In Grade B districts (Pateley Bridge and district) the rates are 1½d. per hour less than those quoted above, and in Grade C districts 3d. per hour less. NOTE.—The hours of labour in a normal working week are 48 except at Clitheroe where no hours are specified.
§ Mr. Kellyasked the Minister of Labour whether he will state the rate of wages paid to men employed in the quarries of the Cornwall County Council?
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydMy right hon. Friend has no definite information as to
2218Wpaid under the Joint Industrial Council to men employed in the quarrying industry?
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe rates of wages vary in different districts and for different classes of workpeople. Following is a statement summarising the information in the possession of the Department.
the rates paid in the quarries referred to. As the hon. Member is aware, however, my right hon. Friend the Minister of Health is in communication with the county council on the subject.