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Volume 376: debated on Monday 8 December 1941

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Written Answers

National War Effort

Hostels

Sir P. Hannon

asked the Minister of Labour the number of country hostels which have been established, or are in process of organisation, for the accommodation of workers in munitions production; whether the National Services Hostels Corporation is actively in operation; and the names of its responsible officers representative of the Government, employers and trade unions?

Mr. Bevin,

pursuant to his reply [OFFICIAL REPORT, 4th December, 1941; cols. 1279–80, Vol. 376], supplied the following list:

  • Board of Directors of the National Service Hostels Corporation, Limited.
  • The Rt. Hon. Lord Rushcliffe, P.C., G.B.E. (Chairman).
  • Major R. T. Laughton (Managing Director).
  • Mr. R. H. Bindloss.
  • The Rt. Hon. Margaret G. Bondfield, P.C., LL.D.
  • Mr. H. F. Methven.

Members of the Hostels Advisory Committee.

  • Mr. George Tomlinson, M.P. (Chairman).
  • Mr. N. Bamforth (Admiralty).
  • Miss A. Loughlin (Trades Union Congress).
  • Miss B. M. Power (Ministry of Supply).
  • Mr. M. Reed (Ministry of Health).
  • Mr. R. Lloyd Roberts (Ministry of Labour and National Service).
  • Miss E. Sanderson.
  • Mr. R. E. Stanley (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries).
  • Mr. J. E. Stephenson (Ministry of Aircraft Production).
  • Mr. J. W. Todd, C.B., C.B.E. (Ministry of Labour and National Service).
  • Sir Francis Towle, C.B.E. (British Employers' Confederation).
  • Mr. G. A. Johnston, Mr. A. R. Williams (Joint Secretaries).

Wages And Working Conditions

Mr. Pearson

asked the Minister of Labour what new joint voluntary machinery for the regulation of wages and working conditions or for the consideration of differences and disputes has been established in industry since the war began?

Mr. Bevin,

pursuant to his reply [OFFICIAL REPORT, 4th December, 1941; col. 1245, Vol. 376] supplied the following list:

New Joint Negotiating Machinery.

  • (i) Joint Industrial (Whitley) Councils.
    • Corn trade.
    • County council roadmen.
    • Fertiliser trade (extension of Chemical J.I.C.).
    • Furniture manufacturing industry.
    • Home-grown timber trade.
    • Ministry of Supply (industrial employees).
    • Omnibus industry (company undertakings).
    • Roadstone quarrying (Joint Council reconstituted).
    • Retail distributive trades:
    • (a) Drapery, outfitting and footwear.
    • (b) Food trades (excluding butchery).
    • (c) Furnishing, hardware, cycle, radio, etc., trades.
    • (d) Hairdressing trades (including beauty specialists).
    • (e) Retail bookselling, newsagency, stationery, tobacco and confectionery trades.
    • Rubber industry.
    • Sand and Ballast Trades.
    • Slaughterhouse work in the meat trade (England and Wales).
    • Stock Brick Manufacture;.
  • (ii)Other forms of joint trade machinery.
    • Joint Boards (for the Building and Civil Engineering Industries;).
    • (a) England and Wales. (b) Scotland.
    • Joint Committee for the Diamond Industry.
    • Joint Committee of the Scottish Federation of Grocers and Provision Merchants Association and the National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen and Clerks.
    • National Joint Wages Board for the Leather Goods and Allied Trades.
    • Joint Committees on the salaries of State Registered Nurses in Hospitals and in Public Health Services.
    • (a) England and Wales. (b) Scotland.
    • Conciliation Committee for the Petroleum Board.
    • Board of Conciliation for the regulation of wages in the Pig Iron Trade of Scotland.
    • National Conciliation Board for the Pressed Brick Industry.
    • National Joint Wages Board for the Refractories Industry.
    • Road Vehicle Repairing Industry (Public Repair Workshops Joint Agreement).
    • National Joint Committee for the Roofing Felt Industry.
    • Joint Conciliation Committee for the Scottish Mental Haspitals.
    • Joint Conciliation Committee for the Scrap Metal Industry.
    • National Joint Committee for the Terrazzo-Mosaic Industry.
  • (iii) District or Sectional Joint Machinery.
    • Joint Council for the Baking Industry in Aberdeen.
    • Negotiating Committee of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Master Bakers' Association and the Scottish Union of Bakers, Confectioners and Bakery Workers.
    • Joint Standing Committee of the Manchester and District Baking Industry, Limited, and the United Road Transport Workers' Association of England.
    • Joint Standing Committee of the Cheshire Federation of Coal Merchants' Associations and the United Road Transport Workers' Association of England.
    • Conciliation Board of the Morecambe Entertainment Proprietors and Managers' Association and the Musicians' Union.
    • Joint Committees of Conciliation between Branches of the Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association and the National Association of Theatrical and Kine Employees.
    • (a) Bradford and district, (6) Leeds and district, (c) North Staffordshire, (d) Northern, (e) South Wales and Monmouthshire.
    • Market Conciliation Boards.
    • (a) Brentford.
    • (b) Stratford.
    • (c) Borough.

    Joint Committee of the Commercial Motor Users' Association (Incorporated) and the Transport and General Workers' Union for the Road Passenger Transport Industry in Lancashire and Cheshire. (Coach, contract, express and stage carriage service operators.

    Industries in which Negotiations are now in progress for establishing joint machinery.

    • Banking.
    • Brick Manufacture in Southern England.
    • Wholesale Provision Trade.
    • Retail Meat Trade.
    • Artificial Stone and Cast Concrete (Scotland).
    • Wholesale Meat Trade (Slaughtering) Scotland.