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IV. Outworkers' Lists —Under Section 107 of the Act,
employees in certain industries (namely : (a) making, cleaning,
washing, altering, finishing and repairing of wearing apparel;
(b) ditto for lace, lace curtains and nets : (c) cabinet and furniture
making and upholstery work ; (d) electro-plating ; (e) making of
files and (f) fur-pulling) have to keep, in prescribed form, lists of
employees working outside the factory or workshop. Such lists
have to be sent on or before February 1st and August 1st in
each year to the Borough Council. In cases where such outworkers
do not reside in the limits of the Borough in which they
work, then their names and addresses are to be sent on to the
Council in whose district they reside.
In Finsbury, during 1902, we have received 53 lists from 42
employers, only six of whom have acted in strict accordance with
the Act, and sent two lists during the year at the stated periods.
Thirty-four employers have sent once; one, three times; and one,
four times. It may be necessary to take action under Section
107, Sub-section (5), to enforce more accurate returns. The
penalty to which employers are liable for contraventing this
requirement of sending in lists is £2 or for second offences £5.
These 53 lists have chiefly been from firms concerned in the
making or preparing of wearing apparel (Section a). We have
received several lists from fur-pullers (Section f.) Sections (c),
(d) and (e) have, generally speaking, furnished no lists. We
have received lists of outworkers from 16 Local Authorities in
whose districts outworkers are employed who live in Finsbury.
In this way we have obtained the names and addresses of 218
outworkers obtaining work from elsewhere but living and
working in Finsbury. The following Table furnishes in brief
the facts obtained under Section 107 of the Act:—