§ MR. W. T. WILSON (Lancashire, Westhoughton)To ask the First Lord of the Admiralty if he is aware that the firms of John Stones, Limited, Ure Mills, Ulverston, and John Stones, of Rosside Works, sliding partition and revolving shutter, etc., manufacturers, who advertise themselves as contractors to the Admiralty, only pay the joiners in their employ from 6¼d. to 7¼d. per hour., whilst the current rate of wage in the district, vide Board of Trade Returns, is 8d. per hour; whether he will take steps to induce those firms to pay the current rate of wages; and, failing which, whether he will remove them from the list of firms invited to tender for Admiralty work.
(Answered by Mr. McKenna.) So far as can be ascertained, this firm has not had any dealings with the Admiralty.