Second Shetland Truck System ReportGuthrie, William
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Second Shetland Truck System Report
Guthrie, William
Labor law -- Truck system -- History -- England; Shetland (Scotland) -- History
1488. I see that in, 1867, on January 3d, you have, Tea 1s. 10d.;
24th, 9d.; 26th, tea 11d., tea 11d., 1s. 10d: does the last entry mean
that you got two separate parcels of tea, each 11d.?-It may have
been that; I cannot exactly say.
1489. How much tea would you get for 11d.?-A quarter of a
pound.
1490. Then you got two quarter pounds on one day?-I suppose
so. One would be for my own use and the other not.
1491. What would the other be for?-I would likely sell the other,
in order to get money for it.
1492. Who do you generally sell it to?-I cannot remember who I
sold it to. Sometimes there would be men coming to the house to
buy, tea, and I supplied them.
1493. What kind of men were these?-Men come from the
country and want to have some tea made and I supply them with it
because I have it in the house.
1494. Do you keep lodgers?-I have very few lodgers; but
sometimes people come from the country and want tea made for
them, although they do not stay all night.
1495. Why, did they not stay all night?-Because they went home.
1496. Was it part of your business to take in people and give them
tea?-No; but they would come into the house and get tea made,
and then go out and do their errands.
1497. Then they came to your house to get refreshments?-Yes.
1498. And they sometimes paid you for the which they got?-Yes;
I was always paid for the tea which I gave them in that way.
1499. Did you sell it to them in quarter pounds or smaller
quantities?-Smaller quantities.
1500. Do you make a profit off that?-I get money for that, but I
cannot say that I make a profit. Sometimes I had people working
for me, to whom I gave a quarter pound of tea.
1501. When you got two quarter pounds, would you sell one
quarter entire?-Yes. When people were working for me, then I
had to give them a quarter of a pound of tea in order to pay them,
because I did not have money to give them.
1502. What people had you working for you?-I have sometimes
been sick, and I have had a person attending upon me, because I
am not healthy; and I had to pay these persons in tea.
1503. Are you a married woman?-No.
1504. Have you a house of your own?-Yes; a room.
1505. The entries in this book only come down to February 1870.
Have you had no book since then?-No.
1506. Have you still been dealing with Mr. Linklater?-No; I have
been working for myself with my own worsted. That was when I
stopped knitting for him.
1507. I see an entry on September 9th 1868, Tea 10d., tea 8d., 1s.
6d.: would these be two quarter pounds of tea of different
quality?-Sometimes they would be that, and sometimes not.
1508. But I am speaking of that particular entry. Was it so in that,
case?-I cannot remember.
1509. But when you got tea at 10d. and tea at 8d., that must have
been two quarter pounds of different qualities?-Yes; I would get
better tea, and tea that was not so good.
1510. When you got them on the same day, would you be
intending to sell one of them?-Yes.
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