§ MR. NANNETTI (Dublin, College Green)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if he is aware that in the list of firms recommended to young officers in Ireland from whom they should order their uniforms and other necessaries there are several firms who do not pay trade-union labour; and that there are several who do not manufacture 1225 the work in their own workshops but give it out to be done by outworkers; and whether, in view of the recommendations of the Commission appointed to inquire into the conditions of labour in the tailoring trade, he will see that such goods are manufactured in sanitary workshops and free from underpaid conditions.
§ MR. ARNOLD-FORSTERAs there is no War Department contract of any sort made with these firms the conditions of manufacture do not come within the scope of War Department inquiry.