§ Sir R. Gowerasked the Minister of Fuel and Power whether volunteers for mining, when they commence work at the pits, will be permitted to exercise their own discretion as to whether they do or do not become members of a trade union?
Major Lloyd GeorgeNo statutory obligation to be a member of a trade union is laid upon any coal miner in this country. Men volunteering for coalmining, however, are expected to conform to the conditions laid down in agreements made between employers and workmen in the various districts.