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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 within the limits of
the Borough from which they obtain work, their names and
addresses are to be sent on by this authority to the Council in
whose district they reside.
In Finsbury, during 1905, we have received 215 lists from 124
employers, most of whom have acted in accordance with the Act;
95 have sent two lists during the year at or about the stated periods,
and 25 employers have sent once. It will be seen from the following
table that there has been considerable improvement in
compliance with the requirements of the Act. The 87 lists received
February 2nd to June 30th were practically all "first lists" due on
February 1st, and the 59 lists received August 2nd to December 31st,
should have been sent in not later than August 1st, So that, out
of 215 lists, (69 were received at the statutory periods. It has been
necessary to take action in 45 cases, under Section 107, sub-section
(5), to enforce more accurate returns. The penalty to which employers
are liable for contravening this requirement of sending in lists
is £2, or for second offence £5. Reference is made to this matter
subsequently. We have issued 41 "reminder" notices and 45
summonses (8 for second infringements), on account of failure
to send in the lists on the statutory dates. These lists have
chiefly been from firms concerned in the making or preparing of
wearing apparel (section a). Sections (c), (d), (e), and (f) have,
generally speaking, furnished no lists. We have received 90 lists
of outworkers from 19 Local Authorities in whose districts outworkers
are employed who live in Finsbury. In this way we
have obtained the names and addresses of 488 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 compared with 1904:—