§ MR. KEIR HARDIEI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether it is the intention of the Board of Customs to employ naval pensioners as Customs boatmen at a lower rate of wages than that now obtaining, and, if so, whether, in view of the Fair Wages Resolution, he will refuse to allow such employment.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINAs some of the boatmen are now employed on duties which are assignable to watchers, it has been determined that one hundred watchers, who are naval pensioners, shall be employed in place of an equal number of boatmen. These men will be classed and paid as watchers, and not as boatmen.