Mr. David Adamsasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that, owing to the absence of factory legislation in the West Indies, machinery for the manufacture of sugar and other commodities is unfenced and a menace to life and limb; and whether he proposes to secure the adoption of such protective legislation at an early date?
Mr. M. MacDonaldI am aware that in certain of the West Indian Colonies there is need for the enactment of legislation to ensure the protection from accident of workers employed in tending machinery, and this is a matter which I 2397W am taking up with the Governments concerned. In the meantime I should be obliged if the hon. Member would furnish me with particulars of the specific cases to which his question relates.