§ MR. STUART SAMUEL (Tower Hamlets, Whitechapel)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether a recognised standard rate of fair wage and limit of hours of work stipulated by the Government are to be accorded to those engaged as carmen and draymen by the Government contractors; and, if so, will ho state the conditions.
(Answer.) All contracts for the supply of teams and drivers on hire to His Majesty's dockyards contain the usual stipulation that the wages paid in the execution of the contract shall be those current for such work in the district concerned. They also provide that the hours worked shall be the ordinary dockyard hours, with extra payment for any overtime. It is not proposed to insert any fresh conditions as to wages and limit of hours of work in these contracts, as the stipulations already mentioned are considered to meet these points satisfactorily.—(Admiralty.)