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(v) carding, boxing, etc., of buttons, hooks, pins, etc.; (u) making
of stuffed toys; (x) basket making; and any processes incidental
to the above; 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 1907, we liave received 295 lists from 160
employers, most of whom have acted in accordance with the Act;
135 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 these lists have been composed of 6,003
names of outworkers. This number will be approximately double
the actual number of workers, as in the lists for February 1st and
August. 1st, the same outworker's name will often be repeated. The
97 lists received February 2nd to June 30th were practically all
"first lists" due on February 1st, and the 65 lists received August
2nd to December 31st, should have been sent in not later than
August 1st. So that, out of 295 lists, 133 were received at the
statutory periods. In previous years we have found it necessary
to issue summonses to enforce more accurate returns. In 1907
we have not prosecuted in any case, but in the second half of the
year we sent
out "reminder" post-cards to all the firms from
whom lists were due, with the result that many more lists than usual
were received at or about the proper date for their receipt. These lists
received have chiefly been, from firms concerned in the making or
preparing of wearing apparel (section a). A few lists have been
received under sections (c), (d), (k), (l), (q), (n), and (s), but the
other sections have furnished no iists. We have received 116 lists
of outworkers from other Local Authorities in whose districts outworkers
are employed who live in Finsbury. In this way we have
obtained the names and addresses of 835 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 1901, 1905 and 1906:--