Mr Thomas Casey: I want to deal with one or two matters suggested by the hon. Member for Central Leeds (Mr. Armitage), who I am sorry is not now in his place. He suggested to the Secretary for Mines that it would be a good thing for the coal industry that the winding enginemen should undergo a compulsory medical examination and that there should be an age limit set for them. I should have been very interested...
Mr Thomas Casey: I am bound to take the exactly opposite view from that put forward by the last speaker, and I am going to support the proposal that friendly societies should be permitted to administer this Bill in the same way as trade union organisations. I do not approach this question simply because I am a trade unionist or simply because I am a member of a friendly society organisation. The thing that...
Mr Thomas Casey: 36. asked the Minister of Transport whether he will favourably consider the advisability of providing a goods train service for perishable foodstuffs to all the principal towns in Great Britain from producing and distributing centres, such trains to be run at scheduled advertnsed times in like manner to passenger trains, and at such hours as will allow the produce to be delivered and sold in...
Mr Thomas Casey: 37. asked the Minister of Health whether he was aware that widows and dependants of ex-Service men might require several death certificates to enable them to claim insurance and friendly society death fees; that for each certificate a fee of 2s. 7d. is charged by the registrar of deaths; and whether some relief could be granted by reducing the charges for such certificates?
Mr Thomas Casey: I should like to appeal to the Under-Secretary to the Home Office to reconsider this matter. I was very much surprised to hear him state that the deputies, firemen, and pump men worked longer than one shift. So far as Yorkshire is concerned, deputies and firemen work the same number of hours as the miners. You have, to remember that the majority of the coal-miners in this country work in two...
Mr Thomas Casey: 78. asked the Minister of Labour whether the men employed at collieries, other than miners, who have been prevented from following their employment through the miners' strike, are entitled to State unemployment benefits?
Mr Thomas Casey: Will the right hon. Gentleman give protection to the engine-men and pump-men who have nothing to do with this dispute between the miners and the coal-owners and who want to continue working to keep the collieries in safety; will ho extend protection to these men who want to work and who are kept from working by threats of violence by men belonging to the unions; and will he withdraw the Navy...
Mr Thomas Casey: I should like, as I have been a mine-worker all my life until recently, to offer a few observations on this Bill. It would be good policy if we took very little notice of the Amendment moved1 by the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Remer). I happen to be a trade union leader. I have lived among the miners all my life. I know all the miners representatives in this House and there is not one...
Mr Thomas Casey: 31. asked the Home Secretary whether mines inspectors or other competent persons are authorised to examine and report to the Home Office on the efficiency or otherwise of all colliery visual signal indicators; and, if so, whether he can say if such indicators correctly record the signals to give confidence to the winding engineman in complying with the signal registered?
Mr Thomas Casey: 32. asked the Home Secretary whether mines inspectors or other competent persons are authorised to examine and report to the Home Office if overwinding machinery at collieries is in satisfactory working order, so as to prevent overwinding accidents; and, if so, what is the period between one inspection and another?
