§ MR. KEIR HARDIE (Merthyr Tydvil)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether there are any Government contracts for granite or macadam with Messrs. Mowlem & Company, 129 contractors, Westminster; and, if so, whether the Fair Wages Clause is in force in the granite quarries of the firm at Guernsey, from which the material is obtained.
(Answered by Mr. McKenna.) The reply to the first paragraph is in the affirmative. In the case of granite paving and macadam the Fair Wages Resolution is attached to the contract. In the case of granite macadam ordered for the roads in royal parks in and around London the Fair Wages Resolution has not hitherto been attached to the contract. Arrangements will, however, be made under which this will be done in future. The First Commissioner of Works is informed by Messrs. Mowlem that they pay the current rate of wages for the district in their quarries in Guernsey.