§ MR. WOODALL (Hanley)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty if he will introduce into the Royal Dockyards a similar system to that in force in private yards of furnishing to all workmen engaged on piecework a schedule or tariff of rates for each description of such piecework, such rates having been fixed from time to time by the managers of the yards in conference with delegates selected by the workmen?
§ *THE FIRST LORD or THE ADMIRALTY (Lord G. HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingWar-ship work is now so complicated and varied that no simple scale of rates could be fixed. Every endeavour is now made to fix rates after practical trial of the wages that can be earned on the different jobs. It is not considered desirable that the rates paid for piecework should be made a matter of arrangement between the local officers and workmen at the dockyards; but the Local Authorities now have full power of revising the rates.