§ MR. KEIR HARDIETo ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office 1536 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.)