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
1971. And there is no difference or addition that you can state?-
No.
1972. Have you asked for money and got all you wanted?-Yes; I
never asked for money and did not get it. When I had a line from
Mr. Sinclair, I just got the same goods from him upon it as I would
have got for money.
Lerwick, January 3, 1872, MRS HELEN FLAUS, examined.
1973. Are you a dresser in Lerwick?-I dress a little and I knit a
little.
1974. Did you hear the evidence which Mrs. Arcus gave to-day?-
Yes.
1975. Do you do business in the same way that she described?-
Much the same.
1976. Do you dress shawls for some of the knitters in Lerwick?-
Yes.
1977. And you take ready money for that?-Yes.
1978. Do they sell the shawls direct to the merchants
themselves?-Yes.
1979. Do you also dress shawls for knitters from the country?-
Yes.
1980. Do you sell these shawls, or do you return them to the girls
who bring them to you?-I sometimes sell them, and sometimes
they sell them.
1981. When you sell them to the merchants, do you get ready
money or lines, or do you get goods for the girls?-I get lines from
those merchants who give lines, and those who give no lines mark
them down in their books.
1982. Who gives you the lines?-Mr. Sinclair. Mr. Laurenson
generally is the only other merchant I sell to and he marks them
down in his own book. He does not give lines.
1983. You don't sell to any of the other merchants?-Sometimes I
do.
1984. Do you sell to Mr. Johnston?-Not very much.
1985. Does he give you a line when you sell to him for a country
girl?-Yes.
1986. Do you sell to Mr. Linklater?-Yes, occasionally. He does
not give lines; he marks the articles down in his book.
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1987. How does he know the girl for whom the shawl has been
sold, when he only marks it in the book?-I give in the girl's name
to him, and she goes and asks for the amount that is marked in her
name, and gets it.
1988. If she knows the amount?-I tell her the amount.
1989. Then she knows the amount, and that is sufficient to identify
her?-Yes.
1990. Do these country girls sometimes ask you to get money for
them rather than goods?-No; they have never asked me to do
that.
1991. Do they sometimes get part of their payment in money?-I
cannot tell about that. They always get a line from me, and I
cannot tell how the merchants and they settle.
1992. Do you know whether lines are sometimes given for the
goods which are sold by the knitters in town?-I cannot say
anything about that.
1993. Or which are sold by yourself?-No; I don't know anything
about that myself.
1994. You never took lines for the shawls you knitted yourself?-
No; not for my own goods.
1995. Do you sometimes sell to strangers, or to people who are not
in the trade?-No; I have never done that.
1996. I suppose you meet with people who knit a good deal, and
have a number of transactions with them?-Yes.
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