§ MR. WATT (Glasgow, College)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been called to the fact that boilermakers have recently been engaged in Glasgow by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company at specified wages, fare to Quebec being advanced by the Company but to be deducted from these wages; that the written agreements gave a definite engagement for three months, yet within two months these men were forcibly landed again at Liverpool; that when asked for the wages under the agreement, the Canadian Pacific Company, through their agents, W. A. Crump & Son, solicitors, London, deny liability; and, if so, will he say what steps the Colonial Office propose to take so that British subjects may not be thus illtreated and defrauded.
§ THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Colonel SEELY,) Liverpool, AbercrombyThe Secretary of State has no information as to the case referred to, but inquiry will be made.