§ 22. Mr. RICHARD LAMBERTasked the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to the dispute now pending between agricultural labourers and their employers in Wiltshire; and whether he will use the influence of the Board to bring this dispute to an end?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANThe Chief Industrial Commissioner's Department has recently inquired into this dispute with a view to obtaining a settlement, but the information at the disposal of the Department does not indicate that further negotiations would at present have any useful result.
§ Mr. R. LAMBERTMay I ask whether the right hon. Gentleman is aware that the men offered to go back on their own terms, and that in spite of this the local landlord, who is a Member of this House, insisted in pressing forward ejectment orders against them?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANI am afraid the facts as stated by my hon. Friend have been confirmed by the Industrial Commissioners.