Second Shetland Truck System ReportGuthrie, William
History
Second Shetland Truck System Report
Guthrie, William
Labor law -- Truck system -- History -- England; Shetland (Scotland) -- History
1946. Do you sell to other people than Mr. Sinclair?-No; I
generally sell everything have to him.
1947. When you go to him to sell your work, do you get payment
in money or in goods?-In goods.
1948. Do you prefer that way of dealing; or do you want all
money?-I generally require goods.
1949. Have you a family?-Yes; the goods were wanted for them.
1950. You don't get provisions there: you provide them
otherwise?-Yes.
1951. Do you sometimes ask for money from Mr. Sinclair?-Yes,
I have asked for money, and I got it when I asked it. I have not
sold anything to any other shop for the last fifteen years.
1952. Would you prefer to get money if you could?-I don't know.
If I were getting money, I would just have to buy goods with it, so
that the goods are the same to me as money.
1953. Do you know that any one can get money for their goods if
they want it?-I know there are plenty who get it.
1954. But can any one get whatever money they require for their
goods?-I don't know. I only know that there are many who want
money; but for my own part, I generally ask for goods, and I get
them; and if I require a little money, I always get it.
1955. Do you sometimes get lines?-Yes; and worsted to knit,
which is the same as money.
1956. If you are in want of worsted, do you buy it from Mr.
Sinclair in payment for your shawls?-Yes.
1957. Do you keep any account, or do you just deal across the
counter?-I just get the things as I want them.
1958. You go to the shop and say you want so much worsted as
part of what you are taking?-Yes.
1959. Do you get it at the ordinary price?-Yes; it is just the same
price.
1960. Does your sister-in-law, Mrs. James Bolt, deal in the same
way?-Yes; in the same manner.
1961. And, altogether with Mr. Sinclair?-Yes. We always knit
together, and what hosiery we have we always sell to him.
1962. Do you buy the worsted from Mr. Sinclair exactly in the
same way as you would buy a piece of cotton or a dress?-Yes;
just the same.
1963. The price of the worsted is reckoned up as part of the price
of the shawl that you are selling?-Yes. We get it on a line the
same as the other goods.
1964. Of course: there is no writing: it is just a transaction across
the counter unless there is a line?-Yes.
1965. But if you have a line, and bring it back to the shop in order
to get goods, do you get worsted for it just as you get any other
goods?-Yes; I have got worsted on a line.
1966. Do you know that these transactions are all entered in Mr.
Sinclair's book?-Yes.
1967. You have seen that done?-Yes.
1968. The worsted is entered there as well as the other things?-
Yes.
Lerwick, January 3, 1872, Mrs. WILHELMINA BOLT, examined.
1969. Have you anything different to say about the way in which
you knit and deal in your hosiery business from what you have
heard stated by your sister-in-law?-No; I have nothing more to
say.
1970. You agree with her in everything?-Yes.
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