Trade Boards.

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 2 December 1925.

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Photo of Mr Arthur Steel-Maitland Mr Arthur Steel-Maitland , Birmingham Erdington

Particulars are only available for the period since June, 1920. In that period 25 firms in the chain trade and 32 firms in the hollow-ware trade were found by inspectors to be paying less than the legal minimum rate of wages to one or more of the workpeople. During the same period proceedings for failure to comply with the requirements of the Trade Boards Acts were taken in the Courts against three firms in the chain trade. No such proceedings were taken in the hollow-ware trade.