§ Mr. FETHERSTONHAUGHasked the Secretary of State for War if he will consider the advisability of imposing a money fine on contractors found guilty by the arbitrator of infringing the Fair-Wages Clause of Army contracts, instead of the usual method of cancelling the contract and removing the offender's name from the War Office list, which, as a rule, only has the effect of throwing working men out of employment through no fault of theirs?
§ Mr. H. BAKERThere are various methods of dealing with persistent infringements of the Fair-Wages Clause, according to the attendant circumstances of each case. The course suggested by the hon. Gentleman was very carefully considered by the Fair-Wages Advisory Committee, who came to the conclusion that it would in practice present such difficulties that they could not recommend its adoption.