§ MR. CROOKS (Woolwich)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether investigation is ever made into the conditions and rates of pay agreed to by the contractors for marquees and tents to satisfy his Department that there is no infringement of these conditions.
§ (Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) Immediate inquiry is invariably instituted on receipt of complaint of infringement of the clauses in contracts relating to wages or conditions of labour. Such an inquiry was made in the early part of this year in regard to the execution of certain 448 contracts for tents, and showed that, so far as could be ascertained, the terms of the contract relating to wages were duly observed.