§ MR. CUNINGHAME GRAHAM) (Lanark, N.W.I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if Her Majesty's Government has any official confirmation of the report in the newspapers that the Portuguese Government has introduced the eight hours' day into all its State workshops, arsenals, &c.?
§ *SIR J. FERGUSSONNo, Sir; but at the Berlin Labour Conference the Portuguese Delegates stated that a day of eight hours' work is guaranteed to the labourers in the State tobacco factories, about half of whom are females.