§ 83. Mr. CLANCYasked the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been drawn to the memorial recently addressed to the board of directors of the Great Southern and Western Railway Company of Ireland by the labourers working in the various departments of the company's works at Inchicore, Dublin, for an increase of wages; whether he is aware that, while the company recently increased the wages of the men whom the labourers are employed to assist on the ground of the increased cost of the necessaries of life, it has declined even to consider the request of the labourers, although the same reasons exist for raising wages in their case, and although the labourers are the worst paid section of all the workers in the employment of the company; whether he is aware that, in consequence, a feeling of exasperation is growing up amongst the men; and whether, in view of all the circumstances of the case, he will exert all the powers he possesses for securing better treatment for the memorialists, and so eliminating the possibility of an open rupture between the company and its employés at a time like the present?
§ Mr. PRETYMANMy right hon. Friend has received a copy of the memorial referred to and he is in communication with the company upon the matter.