§ MR. JOHN BURNS (Battersea)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, whether his attention has been called to a correspondence between the secretary of the Galashiels Textile Factory Workers' Union and the Director of Army Contracts on the subject of the rate of wages paid by Messrs. William Brown and Sons, Wilderband Mills, Galashiels, to workers employed on Army contract goods; whether he is aware that this firm have reduced the wages on Government work by about 12½ per cent.; and whether the Department proposes to take any steps to rectify this alleged contravention of the conditions applicable to Government orders, and to put a stop to the injury done to the workmen by such a contravention.
§ MR. BRODRICKThis matter has been carefully considered, and it is held that the contract conditions have not; been infringed by the firm.