13 MAY 1949, Page 5

How many bricks is the trade unionist bricklayer permitted by

the established custom of the union to lay a day ? I see that the Mayor of Margate gives the figure at 3oo. I understood myself that it was 320. I know of a bricklayer who on a straight run regularly lays i,000. He is not a union member and his employer pays him nearly double the union wage. But he lays much more than double the union tale of bricks.