§ COLONEL HUGHESI beg to ask the First Commissioner of Works whether he stated to a deputation of unemployed that he would insert in the contract for the removal of Millbank Prison a condition that the unskilled labourer should be paid 6d. an hour?
§ THE FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS (Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE) Bradford, CentralI would refer the hon. and gallant Gentleman to the report in The Times of the 29th of November last of my reply to the deputation from the unemployed which waited upon me on the previous day on the subject of the,demolition of Millbank Prison. I said that in order to prevent "sweating" there would be a clause in the contracts, in accordance with the Resolution of the House of Commons, that the contractors were to pay the men they employed the current wages. I did not mention any definite rate of wages.