HC Deb 05 June 1902 vol 108 cc1535-6
MR. KEIR HARDIE

To ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he has any official information showing why Messrs. Saunderson, Brothers, Sheffield, Contractors for the War Office, have demanded a reduction of 25 per cent. in the wages paid to workmen engaged on Government contracts; and whether there has recently been a reduction in the price paid them for the making of bayonets.

(Answer.) I am not aware that this firm have demanded a reduction of wages. The price paid for sword bayonets has recently been reduced.—(War Office.)